Franco Rossellini

Production

Franco Rossellini

Born 1935-11-07 · Rome, Lazio, Italy

Franco Rossellini was born on 7 November 1935 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was a producer and assistant director , known for Caligula (1979), Django (1966) and The Possessed (1965). He died on 3 June 1992 in New York City, New York, USA.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Caligula poster
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After the death of the paranoid emperor Tiberius, Caligula, his heir, seizes power and plunges the empire into a bloody spiral of madness and depravity.

Caligula

1979

Theorem poster
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A wealthy Italian household is turned upside down when a handsome stranger arrives, seduces every family member and then disappears. Each has an epiphany of sorts, but none can figure out who the seductive visitor was or why he came.

Theorem

1968

City of Women poster
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The charismatic Snaporaz encounters an alluring woman on a train and pursues her through a forest. He ends up at a hotel populated by women gathered for a feminist conference, where he is an unwanted presence. Snaporaz soon discovers he’s entered a phantasmagoric world where women have taken power.

City of Women

1980

Medea poster
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Based on the plot of Euripides' Medea. Medea centers on the barbarian protagonist as she finds her position in the Greek world threatened, and the revenge she takes against her husband Jason who has betrayed her for another woman.

Medea

1969

Identikit poster
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A mentally disturbed woman arrives in Rome to find a city fragmented by autocratic law, leftist violence, and her own increasingly unhinged mission to find the most dangerous liaison of all.

Identikit

1974

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

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

Brothers Blue

1973

The Walls of Sana'a poster
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The capital of Yemen, the city of Sana'a, holds an important part of history within its walls filled with medieval architecture and culture. But that same culture was about to disappear with the country's modernization which came after the civil war in the 1960's. To impeach such modern invasion, director Pasolini pledges to UNESCO for the recognition of Sana'a as a World Heritage Site.

The Walls of Sana'a

1974