Sergio Sollima
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| Born | 17 April 1921 Rome, Lazio, Italy |
| Died | 1 July 2015 (aged 94) Rome, Italy |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Occupation(s) | Film director, producer, screenwriter |
| Years active | 1962–1998 |
| Children | Stefano Sollima |
Sergio Sollima (17 April 1921 – 1 July 2015) was an Italian film director and script writer.
Biography
Sollima graduated from the
After the war, he gradually progressed from working as a film critic to screenwriting to becoming a director[2] Like many Italian
In 1970, Sollima switched genres again and directed the Charles Bronson and Telly Savalas starred Violent City, which was one of the first violent and fast-paced Italian crime films often known as poliziotteschi. Like for all of his westerns, the soundtrack was provided by Ennio Morricone. Sollima's last well-known film is Revolver, a poliziotteschi film starring Oliver Reed and Fabio Testi.
Sollima directed the six-part Italian TV series Sandokan starring Kabir Bedi with several feature films spun off the series.
Selected filmography
- Tripoli, Beautiful Land of Love (1954)
- Agent 3S3: Passport to Hell (1965)
- Agent 3S3, Massacre in the Sun(1966)
- Requiem for a Secret Agent (1966)
- The Big Gundown (1967)
- Face to Face (1967)
- Run, Man, Run (1968)
- Violent City (1970)
- Devil in the Brain (1972)
- Revolver (1973)
- Sandokan (1976, TV miniseries)
- The Black Corsair (1976)
- La tigre è ancora viva: Sandokan alla riscossa! (1977)
References
- ^ p. 93 Fisher, Austin Radical Frontiers in the Spaghetti Western: Politics, Violence and Popular Italian Cinema I.B.Tauris, 6 Feb 2014
- ^ Vivarelli, Nick (3 July 2015). "Sergio Sollima, Italian Director Best Known Internationally For Spaghetti Westerns, Dies at 94". Variety. Retrieved 6 April 2019.
External links
- Sergio Sollima at IMDb
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