
Giuseppe Tornatore
Giuseppe Tornatore (born 27 May 1956) is an Italian film director and screenwriter. Born in Bagheria near Palermo, Tornatore developed an interest in acting and the theatre from at least the age of 16 and put on works by Luigi Pirandello and Eduardo De Filippo. He worked initially as a freelance photographer. Then, switching to cinema, he made his debut with Le minoranze etniche in Sicilia (The Ethnic Minorities in Sicily), a collaborative documentary film which won a Salerno Festival prize. He then worked for RAI before releasing his first full-length film, Il Camorrista, in 1985. This evoked a positive response from audience and critics alike and Tornatore was awarded the Silver Ribbon for best new director. Tornatore's best known screen work was released in 1988: Nuovo Cinema Paradiso, a film narrating the life of a successful film director who has returned to his native town in Sicily for the funeral of his mentor. This obtained worldwide success and won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Subsequently Tornatore released several other films. In 2007 he won the Silver George for Best Director at the 29th Moscow International Film Festival for The Unknown Woman.
Known For | Directing |
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Most Rating | 3.861 |
Birthday | 1956-05-27 |
Place of Birth | Bagheria, Sicilia, Italia |
Also Known As | Peppuccio Tornatore, |

2019

Carlo Vanzina - Il cinema è una cosa meravigliosa
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2014

Cinema Italiano: Moments of Truth
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2022

Ennio
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2004

The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth
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A documentary looking at the life and films of Francesco Rosi.
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2022

Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
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To mark the recent thirtieth anniversary of Sergio Leone’s death, this documentary sets out to pay tribute to one of the great legends of world cinema...
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2014

C'era una volta il prossimamente
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A passionate cavalcade through decades of "coming attractions"
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1988

Cinema Paradiso
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A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's proje...
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Cinema Paradiso

2009

Franco Cristaldi e il suo cinema Paradiso
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2014

Giuseppe Tornatore - Ogni film un'opera prima
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2000

A Dream of Sicily
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A 52-minute documentary profile of Giuseppe Tornatore featuring interviews with director and extracts from his early home movies as well as interviews...
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A Dream of Sicily

2015

Born in the U.S.E. - Nato negli Stati Uniti d'Europa
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2018

24/25 Il fotogramma in più
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A documentary on how cinema and television influence each other and their close relationship.
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2016

Cinque mondi
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Roberto Benigni, Bernardo Bertolucci, Gabriele Salvatores, Paolo Sorrentino and Giuseppe Tornatore talk about their idea of cinema.
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2010

L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo
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2019

Citizen Rosi
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The narrative wanders through Rosi’s films, not in the order they were shot but following the chronology of the historical facts they deal with. The d...
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1995

Ennio Morricone
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From his quirky compositions for the spaghetti Westerns of Sergio Leone to his sublime musical contributions to director Roland Joffé's acclaimed 1986...
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2010

Dante Ferretti: Production Designer
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The Documentary Dante Ferretti – Production Designer retraces the life and the career of Dante Ferretti, the famous Italian Artist and Production Desi...
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1997

The Man with the Cigar in His Mouth
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2014

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2019

Cecchi Gori - Una famiglia italiana
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2002

The Magic of Fellini
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2006

A Bear and a Mouse in Paradise
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The making of Cinema Paradiso and the characters of Toto and Alfredo
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2006

Marcello, una vita dolce
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After shooting to fame with Federico Fellini’s “La Dolce Vita” (1960), actor Marcello Mastroianni (1924-1996) starred in more than 160 films in his ne...
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2020

Good Morning, the Wind Blows
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2021

All Star - Ritorno al cinema
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2024

Titanus 1904
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