Giulio Questi

Directing

Giulio Questi

Born 1924-03-18 · Bergamo, Italy

Director and screenwriter.

Acting credits

La Dolce Vita poster
8.0

Episodic journey of journalist Marcello who struggles to find his place in the world, torn between the allure of Rome's elite social scene and the stifling domesticity offered by his girlfriend, all the while searching for a way to become a serious writer.

La Dolce Vita

1960

The Birds, the Bees and the Italians poster
7.1

An anthology presents three storylines, all set in the Italian town of Treviso: A husband pretends to be impotent as a cover for having an affair; a bank clerk abandons his wife for his mistress, but the rest of the town's husbands become jealous and unite to conspire against them; and local men all seduce a promiscuous young woman, but when her father eventually reveals that she is underage, they all face prosecution for statutory rape.

The Birds, the Bees and the Italians

1966

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8.0

A conversation with Italian director Giulio Questi about his digital short films.

Il cinema digitale secondo Giulio Questi

2007

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4.0

"Western all'italiana" is a documentary produced and broadcast by the satellite broadcaster Studio Universal in 2004, on the occasion of the broadcasting of a selection of Italian western films, the so-called "spaghetti westerns". In the course of the video, the birth, evolution and conclusion of the Italian western trend is told.

Western all'italiana

2004

The Years of Lost Images poster
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A documentary about director Valerio Zurlini. The "lost images" of the title are the movies Zurlini was never able to shoot: between 1962, the year he won the Golden Lion with Family Diary, and 1982, the year of his death, he directed only four features. The documentary features interviews with close collaborators (celebrated screenwriters Enrico Medioli and Nicola Badalucco) and some of his actors (Jacques Perrin and Claudia Cardinale).

The Years of Lost Images

2012

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A short film by Giulio Questi.

Repressione in Città

2005

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An old, avid reader of poetry gets stalked by a masked killer in his own home.

Doctor Schizo e Mister Phrenic

2002

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A man alone in the middle of a long blackout. Civilization stops.

Mysterium Noctis

2004

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The protagonist is immersed in reading Alice in Wonderland when suddenly a girl "from the eyes of dreams and illusion" appears at the window asking for help.

Vacanze con Alice

2005

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An old man receives a letter from Mr. Nada de Nada y Nada and later a visit that will face him with an startling situation.

Lettera da Salamanca

2002

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A short film by Giulio Questi.

Tatatatango

2003

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Giulio Questi gets a visit from the ghosts of the Fascists he killed as a partisan during Italy’s ‘43-’45 civil war. Meanwhile, a spaceship ready to take them away to an eternal black hole awaits all of them.

Visitors

2006

Behind the camera

Death Laid an Egg poster
5.7

A love triangle develops between three people who run a high tech chicken farm. It involves Anna (who owns the farm), her husband Marco (who kills prostitutes in his spare time) and Gabriella (the very beautiful secretary). Marco continues to kill as jealousy becomes more prevalent on the farm.

Death Laid an Egg

1968

Death Laid an Egg poster
5.7

A love triangle develops between three people who run a high tech chicken farm. It involves Anna (who owns the farm), her husband Marco (who kills prostitutes in his spare time) and Gabriella (the very beautiful secretary). Marco continues to kill as jealousy becomes more prevalent on the farm.

Death Laid an Egg

1968

Django Kill... If You Live, Shoot! poster
5.8

A Mexican outlaw known as "The Stranger" is part of a band of thieves that steal a cargo of gold from a stagecoach. However, the Americans in the band betray him, and shoot all the Mexicans. The Stranger is not completely dead though, and crawls his way out of his shallow grave, continuing his pursuit of the gold, and exacting a bloody vengeance.

Django Kill... If You Live, Shoot!

1967

Django Kill... If You Live, Shoot! poster
5.8

A Mexican outlaw known as "The Stranger" is part of a band of thieves that steal a cargo of gold from a stagecoach. However, the Americans in the band betray him, and shoot all the Mexicans. The Stranger is not completely dead though, and crawls his way out of his shallow grave, continuing his pursuit of the gold, and exacting a bloody vengeance.

Django Kill... If You Live, Shoot!

1967

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

Amori pericolosi poster
7.0

Three episodes of varying pitch and quality. In the first a maid plans the elimination of her lover's wife with him, but she doesn't enjoy the fruits of victory. In the second (The patrol) a soldier of the Foreign Legion neglects his duties for running after a prostitute. The third segment has as its protagonist a general of the belle époque that goes on a date.

Amori pericolosi

1964

Amori pericolosi poster
7.0

Three episodes of varying pitch and quality. In the first a maid plans the elimination of her lover's wife with him, but she doesn't enjoy the fruits of victory. In the second (The patrol) a soldier of the Foreign Legion neglects his duties for running after a prostitute. The third segment has as its protagonist a general of the belle époque that goes on a date.

Amori pericolosi

1964

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NR

No synopsis available yet.

Avamposto

1959

Latin Lovers poster
7.0

An episodic film based on letters to agony columns, showing the effect of sex on the lives of women.

Latin Lovers

1961

Latin Lovers poster
7.0

An episodic film based on letters to agony columns, showing the effect of sex on the lives of women.

Latin Lovers

1961

Arcana poster
5.8

A Sicilian widow earns her living as a clairvoyant, in Milan, but she hasn't got any power at all. Her son instead holds supernatural powers and with the help of his mother he becomes a strong sorcerer. But he fails perhaps to understand the real strength he possesses inside and unbinds uncontrolled forces that lead people that surround him to go mad.

Arcana

1972

Arcana poster
5.8

A Sicilian widow earns her living as a clairvoyant, in Milan, but she hasn't got any power at all. Her son instead holds supernatural powers and with the help of his mother he becomes a strong sorcerer. But he fails perhaps to understand the real strength he possesses inside and unbinds uncontrolled forces that lead people that surround him to go mad.

Arcana

1972

Il carro armato dell'8 settembre poster
3.7

Italy signed the armistice and in the general confusion a corporal decides to bring the tank back from the coast to the barracks.

Il carro armato dell'8 settembre

1960

Il passo poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Il passo

1964

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5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Il segno del comando

1992

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5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Il segno del comando

1992

The Sandman poster
2.0

A young student, haunted by the memory of a mysterious figure called Coppelius who killed his father, starts to slowly lose his mind when he encounters an emotionless woman that is actually an automata, as well as a weird salesman who actually could be the man responsible for his father's death.

The Sandman

1981

The Sandman poster
2.0

A young student, haunted by the memory of a mysterious figure called Coppelius who killed his father, starts to slowly lose his mind when he encounters an emotionless woman that is actually an automata, as well as a weird salesman who actually could be the man responsible for his father's death.

The Sandman

1981

Vampirismus poster
NR

A Count marries a woman with illness that makes her suffer attacks of vampirism. The Count took flight in the wildest horror, and ran, without any idea where he was going or what he was doing, impelled by the deadliest terror, all about the walks in the park, till he found himself at the door of his own Castle as the day was breaking, bathed in cold perspiration. Involuntarily, without the capability of taking hold of a thought, he dashed up the steps, and went bursting through the passages and into his own bedroom.

Vampirismus

1982

Vampirismus poster
NR

A Count marries a woman with illness that makes her suffer attacks of vampirism. The Count took flight in the wildest horror, and ran, without any idea where he was going or what he was doing, impelled by the deadliest terror, all about the walks in the park, till he found himself at the door of his own Castle as the day was breaking, bathed in cold perspiration. Involuntarily, without the capability of taking hold of a thought, he dashed up the steps, and went bursting through the passages and into his own bedroom.

Vampirismus

1982

Nudi per vivere poster
10.0

A collection of varieties numbers from various night clubs.

Nudi per vivere

1963

No artwork available
NR

A short film by Giulio Questi.

Repressione in Città

2005

No artwork available
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A short film by Giulio Questi.

Repressione in Città

2005

No artwork available
NR

A short film by Giulio Questi.

Repressione in Città

2005