Franco Cristaldi

Producer

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Birth Place

Italy

Born

October 03, 1924

Died

July 01, 1992

Cause of Death

Heart Attack

Biography

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Respected European producer who has backed films by most of the neo-realists and other major post-war Italian directors, including Luchino Visconti ("White Nights" 1957), Mario Monicelli ("Big Deal on Madonna Street" 1958), Marco Bellocchio ("China is Near" 1967), Francesco Rosi ("Salvatore Giuiliano" 1962), Gillo Pontecorvo ("Ogro" 1979), Pietro Germi ("Divorce, Italian Style 1962 and "...

Filmography

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Gangsters (1997)

Producer ("Presents")

Flight of the Innocent (1992)

C'era un castello con 40 cani (1990)

Cinema Paradiso (1989)

Vanille Fraise (1989)

Photos & Videos

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Fine Pair, A (1969) -- (Movie Clip) Two Basic Requirements

Fine Pair, A (1969) -- (Movie Clip) You Want Two Rooms?

Family & Companions

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Claudia Cardinale

Wife

Actor. Married in 1966; divorced c. 1975; one son together; appeared in such Cristaldi-produced films as Nanni Loy's "Fiasco in Milan" (1959), Francesco Maselli's "Time of Indifference" (1964), Luchino Visconti's "Vaghe Stella del Orso/Sandra" (1965) and Mikhail Kalatozov's "The Red Tent" (1969).

Zeudi Arraya

Wife

Actor. Married c. 1984; survived him.

Notes

Served as President of the National Union of Italian Film Producers (1966-1992).

Elected President of the International Federation of Film Producers Association (IFFPA) (1977).

Biography

Respected European producer who has backed films by most of the neo-realists and other major post-war Italian directors, including Luchino Visconti ("White Nights" 1957), Mario Monicelli ("Big Deal on Madonna Street" 1958), Marco Bellocchio ("China is Near" 1967), Francesco Rosi ("Salvatore Giuiliano" 1962), Gillo Pontecorvo ("Ogro" 1979), Pietro Germi ("Divorce, Italian Style 1962 and "Seduced and Abandoned" 1964) and Federico Fellini ("Amarcord" 1974 and "And The Ship Sails On" 1983). Formerly married to actress Claudia Cardinale.

Filmography

Producer (Feature Film)

Gangsters (1997)

Producer ("Presents")

Flight of the Innocent (1992)

C'era un castello con 40 cani (1990)

Cinema Paradiso (1989)

Vanille Fraise (1989)

Garibaldi - the General (1986)

The Name of the Rose (1986)

And The Ship Sails On (1984)

Arrivano i miei (1983)

Domani Si Balla (1982)

Cafe Express (1980)

Ho Fatto Splash (1980)

Operazione Ogro (1979)

Ratataplan (1979)

Cristo si e Fermato a Eboli (1978)

Mogliamante (1977)

Qui comincia l'avventura (1976)

Beato Loro (1975)

Amarcord (1974)

Lucky Luciano (1973)

The Mattei Affair (1972)

Lady Caroline Lamb (1972)

Executive Producer

In Nome del Padre (1971)

L' Udienza (1971)

The Red Tent (1970)

A Fine Pair (1969)

Executive Producer

China Is Near (1968)

A Rose for Everyone (1967)

Salvatore Giuliano (1966)

The Lady Killer of Rome (1965)

Time of Indifference (1965)

Seduced and Abandoned (1964)

The Organizer (1964)

Bebo's Girl (1964)

Fiasco in Milan (1963)

My Son, the Hero (1963)

Divorce--Italian Style (1962)

White Nights (1961)

The Dauphins (1960)

Ghosts in Rome (1960)

I magliari (1959)

Big Deal On Madonna Street (1958)

Nero's Mistress (1956)

Producer (TV Mini-Series)

Marco Polo (1982)

Executive Producer

Life Events

1945

Produced first short film

1953

Produced first feature film, "La Pattuglia Sperduta"

1968

Elected president of Union of Italian Producers

1969

Produced first Italo-Soviet co-production, "The Red Tent"

1982

Produced first TV mini-series, "Marco Polo"

1984

Served on Cannes' 37th Jury

Videos

Fine Pair, A (1969) -- (Movie Clip) Two Basic Requirements After credits in which she lands in New York from Rome, Claudia Cardinale is pretty convincing as a playful Italian jet-setter, inexplicably dropping in on businesslike police suit Rock Hudson, early in director Francesco Maselli's little-noticed A Fine Pair, 1969.

Fine Pair, A (1969) -- (Movie Clip) You Want Two Rooms? Crossing the pond with Esmerelda (Claudia Cardinale), the now grown-up amateur criminal daughter of his late Italian colleague, New York police executive Harmon (Rock Hudson) is looking only semi-competent at helping her out of a jam, in the multi-national rom-com A Fine Pair, 1969.

I Compagni (The Organizer) -- (1964) -- (Movie Clip) I Know All Your Faces Turin, Italy, striking factory workers stealing coal, their ringleader the professor (Marcello Mastroianni, title character) seeking support, hungry teenage Bianca (Raffaella Carra`) winning the sympathy of a young policeman, in Mario Monicelli's I Compagni, a.k.a. The Organizer, 1964.

I Compagni (The Organizer) -- (1964) -- (Movie Clip) Rice And Turnips Again After a domestic opening, director Mario Monicelli's sequences depicting the working day in a turn-of-the-century textile factory in Turin, worker Pautasso (Folco Lulli) visiting his child, in I Compagni a.k.a. The Organizer, 1964 starring Marcello Mastroianni.

I Compagni (The Organizer) -- (1964) -- (Movie Clip) But That Would Be A Strike Just arrived in Turin, the professor (Marcello Mastroianni) inserts himself into a spat between semi-organized factory workers led by Pautasso (Folco Lulli), and hesitant Raoul (Renato Salvatori), early in Mario Monicelli's I Compagni a.k.a. The Organizer, 1964.

Le Notti Bianche (a.k.a. White Nights) -- (Movie Clip) He Was A Foreigner Natalia (Maria Schell) is at last warming to Mario (Marcello Mastroianni), so she begins to open up about her life, allowing director Luchino Visconi's first departure from reality, introducing "The Lodger," Jean Marais, in Le Notti Bianche (a.k.a. White Nights), 1961.

Le Notti Bianche (a.k.a. White Nights) -- (Movie Clip) I May Be Too Bold Mario (Marcello Mastroianni) has returned to the bar where he met Natalia (Maria Schell, speaking Italian she learned in two weeks) the night before, where she didn't quite promise to meet him again, early in Luchino Visconti's Le Notti Bianche (a.k.a. White Nights), 1961.

Cinema Paradiso (1989) -- (Movie Clip) I'm Calling From Sicily Director Giuseppe Tornatore's nearly still-life opening, eventually adding Pupella Maggio, as the now-elderly mother of movie director Salvatore (Jacques Perrin) at the wheel in Rome, opening the Academy Award-winner for Best Foreign Film, Cinema Paradiso, 1989, starring Philippe Noiret.

Cinema Paradiso (1989) -- (Movie Clip) Verso La Vita We discover what Fr. Adelfio (Leopoldo Trieste) was rushing off to do, censor the new movie in the Sicilian wartime town, altar-boy Salvatore (Cascio) peeping and Alfredo (Philippe Noiret) projecting (Jean Renoir's The Lower Depths, with Jean Gabin, Suzy Prim and Louis Joudet), early in Giuseppe Tornatore's Cinema Paradiso, 1989.

Cinema Paradiso (1989) -- (Movie Clip) The Saints Just Watch Altar boy Salvatore (Cascio), who will grow up to be a famous director, doing serious business with Fr. Adelfio (Leopoldo Trieste) in WWII Sicily, rescued by his friend, the projectionist Alfredo (Philippe Noiret), angering his mother (Antonella Attili), in Giuseppe Tornatore's Cinema Paradiso, 1989.

Le Notti Bianche (a.k.a. White Nights) -- (Movie Clip) This Young Lady Is With Me! Office worker Mario (Marcello Mastroianni) has just been dropped off by his new boss in director Luchino Visconti's realistic but 100% artificial recreation of Livorno, sort of meeting Natalia (Maria Schell), early in Le Notti Bianche (a.k.a. White Nights), 1961, from a Dostoyevsky short story.

Le Notti Bianche (a.k.a. White Nights) -- (Movie Clip) You Neglect Life And Reality Not a scene you'll see in every Luchino Visconti movie, timid Mario and frightened Natalia (Marcello Mastroianni, Maria Schell) try to loosen up in a bar in the director's imaginary version of Livorno, in Le Notti Bianche (a.k.a. White Nights), 1961.

Companions

Claudia Cardinale

Wife

Actor. Married in 1966; divorced c. 1975; one son together; appeared in such Cristaldi-produced films as Nanni Loy's "Fiasco in Milan" (1959), Francesco Maselli's "Time of Indifference" (1964), Luchino Visconti's "Vaghe Stella del Orso/Sandra" (1965) and Mikhail Kalatozov's "The Red Tent" (1969).

Zeudi Arraya

Wife

Actor. Married c. 1984; survived him.

Bibliography

Notes

Served as President of the National Union of Italian Film Producers (1966-1992).

Elected President of the International Federation of Film Producers Association (IFFPA) (1977).

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