Francesco Maselli

Biography

Francesco Maselli (9 December 1930 – 21 March 2023), also known as Citto Maselli , was an Italian film director and screenwriter. Born into a well educated family (his father was an art critic) originally from the Molise region, Maselli graduated from the Italian National Film School in 1949 and began his career as an assistant and assistant director for Luigi Chiarini , Michelangelo Antonioni , and Luchino Visconti. After directing several short documentary and fiction films, he gave his feature film debut with the World War II drama Abandoned (1955), which premiered at the Venice Film Festival. Following a series of minor films, Maselli had greater success with Silver Spoon Set (1960, also titled The Dolphins ) and Time of Indifference (1964), an adaptation of a novel by Alberto Moravia. In the 1970s, Maselli turned to openly left-wing political films, notably Open Letter to a newspaper of the evening (1970) and The Suspect (1975), before shifting to more intimate films centered on female protagonists in the 1980s such as A Tale of Love (1986) and The Secret (1990). In 2021, Maselli was honored with a retrospective at the Venice Film Festival, where many of his films had seen …

Directed

1. Love in the City (1953) — Director
2. Time of Indifference (1964) — Director
3. Abandoned (1955) — Director
4. The Dolphins (1960) — Director
5. The Suspect (1975) — Director
6. Storia d'amore (1986) — Director
7. Codice privato (1988) — Director
8. A Fine Pair (1968) — Director
9. Open Letter to the Evening News (1970) — Director
10. Kill Me Quick, I'm Cold (1967) — Director
11. The Doll that Took the Town (1957) — Director
12. Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer (1984) — Director
13. The Red Shadows (2009) — Director
14. The Secret (1990) — Director
15. Latin Lovers (1961) — Director
16. Children in the Cinema (1958) — Director
17. Intolerance (1996) — Director
18. Sport minore (1952) — Director
19. Dawn (1991) — Director
20. Fioraie (1953) — Director
21. Fragments of the Twentieth Century (2005) — Director
22. Cronache del terzo millennio (1996) — Director
23. Scossa (2012) — Director
24. Civico zero (2007) — Director
25. Avventura di un fotografo (1983) — Director
26. Il compagno (1999) — Director
27. Rome, November 12, 1994 (1995) — Director
28. The Spring of 2002 - Italy Protests, Italy Stops (2002) — Director
29. All Human Rights for All (2008) — Director
30. Bagnaia paese italiano (1949) — Director
31. Bambini (1951) — Director
32. Sabatoventiquattromarzo (1984) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Amarcord (1973) — Bongioanni (uncredited)
2. And the Ship Sails On (1983) — Guardiano del Rinoceronte (uncredited)
3. The Terrace (1980) — Citto Maselli
4. Open Letter to the Evening News (1970)
5. Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer (1984) — Self
6. Investigation of a Citizen Named Volonté (2004) — Self - Interviewee
7. Gillo of Ladies and Knights, of Loves and Arms (2007) — Self
8. Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance (2014) — Self
9. Le Passeur immobile (2021) — Self
10. I Am Not God But I Am Michelangelo Antonioni — Self
11. Franco Cristaldi e il suo cinema Paradiso (2009)
12. Cesare Zavattini (2003) — Self
13. Il segreto di Otello (2015) — Self
14. Uomini forti (2006) — Self