Directing

Luigi Bazzoni

Born — Died

1929-06-25 — 2012-03-01

Place of birth

Salsomaggiore, Italy

Known for

Directing

Credits

15 titles

Luigi Bazzoni was an Italian director and screenwriter. Born in Salsomaggiore, Bazzoni was the elder brother of the film director and cinematographer Camillo Bazzoni and a cousin of the Academy Award winner Vittorio Storaro. He began his career as assistant director of Mauro Bolognini. Later he became director of films and short films, gaining critical attention for two spaghetti westerns, L'Uomo, l'orgoglio, la vendetta and Blu Gang - Vissero per sempre felici e ammazzati. His short film Di Domenica achieved a Special Mention at the 1963 Cannes Film Festival.

Known for

Behind the camera

Man, Pride and Vengeance poster
5.8

A Spanish army officer, Don Jose, stationed in Seville, meets and begins a relationship with a mysterious gypsy, Carmen. After he discovers she has cheated on him with his Lieutenant, he kills the officer and flees the city with Carmen. He recovers from his wounds and is forced to begin the life of a bandit.

Man, Pride and Vengeance

1967

Man, Pride and Vengeance poster
5.8

A Spanish army officer, Don Jose, stationed in Seville, meets and begins a relationship with a mysterious gypsy, Carmen. After he discovers she has cheated on him with his Lieutenant, he kills the officer and flees the city with Carmen. He recovers from his wounds and is forced to begin the life of a bandit.

Man, Pride and Vengeance

1967

The Fifth Cord poster
6.6

A journalist finds himself on the trail of a murderer who's been targeting people around him, while the police are considering him a suspect in their investigation.

The Fifth Cord

1971

The Fifth Cord poster
6.6

A journalist finds himself on the trail of a murderer who's been targeting people around him, while the police are considering him a suspect in their investigation.

The Fifth Cord

1971

The Possessed poster
6.8

While visiting his favorite resort village during winter, a writer investigates the apparent suicide of a woman he was infatuated with.

The Possessed

1965

The Possessed poster
6.8

While visiting his favorite resort village during winter, a writer investigates the apparent suicide of a woman he was infatuated with.

The Possessed

1965

Footprints on the Moon poster
6.3

Alice, a young translator, finds the real world slowly merging with her recurring nightmares as she tries to solve the puzzle of her recent memory loss. A postcard leads her to the island of Garma where the locals seems to know her. Is she who she thinks she is? And what significance does her dream of an astronaut abandoned on the moon have?

Footprints on the Moon

1975

Footprints on the Moon poster
6.3

Alice, a young translator, finds the real world slowly merging with her recurring nightmares as she tries to solve the puzzle of her recent memory loss. A postcard leads her to the island of Garma where the locals seems to know her. Is she who she thinks she is? And what significance does her dream of an astronaut abandoned on the moon have?

Footprints on the Moon

1975

On Sunday poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

On Sunday

1963

Raul - Right to Kill poster
9.0

In a fascist Rome anxiously awaiting Hitler's visit, Raul is a young man not aligned with the regime and beset by debts. In May 1938, Raul kills an old usurer and her sister: not out of necessity, but to investigate the concept of the "right to kill" ... who can motivate it and assume the right?

Raul - Right to Kill

2005

Metello poster
5.8

The story of a young man of the working class, who has grown up practically an orphan due to his father’s repeated jailings for anarchistic activism. Struggling with life in 19th-century Italy, Metello Salani is determined to change his situation for the better - but love, marriage and politics complicate things considerably...

Metello

1970

La moto poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

La moto

1962

Brothers Blue poster
6.6

A group of young desperados is hunted for several years by a determined bank guard

Brothers Blue

1973

La contessa azzurra poster
6.0

Loreley looks back to the happy times when she became a silent movie star with the huge success of "La Contessa Azzurra", directed by Don Salvatore and produced by Don Peppino, the owner of a Café Chantant.

La contessa azzurra

1960

No artwork available
NR

The story of a boy who passes the same house every day on his way to school. The ride on his bicycle and looking through a window of the house will reveal him the true self.

Un delitto

1963