Writing
Franco Rossetti
Born
1930-10-01 (96)
Place of birth
Siena, Tuscany, Italy
Known for
Writing
Credits
25 titles
Franco Rossetti was an Italian film director and screenwriter active during the 1960s and 1970s. He is known for his work in the spaghetti Western genre, contributing to films such as Django (1966) as a screenwriter. Rossetti directed films like The Dirty Outlaws (1967) and Dead Men Don't Make Shadows (1970). His work is characterized by its gritty realism and innovative storytelling within the Western genre. Rossetti's contributions have left a lasting impact on Italian cinema, particularly in the Western genre.
Known for
7.0Anthropology student Daria, who's helping a property developer build a village in the Los Angeles desert, and dropout Mark, who's wanted by the authorities for allegedly killing a policeman during a student riot, accidentally encounter each other in Death Valley and soon begin an unrestrained romance.
Zabriskie Point
1970
6.3A mysterious gunfighter named Django is employed by a local crooked political boss as a hangman to execute innocent locals framed by the boss, who wants their land. What the boss doesn't know is that Django isn't hanging the men at all, just making it look like he is, and using the men he saves from the gallows to build up his own "gang" in order to take revenge on the boss, who, with Django's former best friend, caused the death of his wife years before.
Django, Prepare a Coffin
1968
6.0A Texan sheriff and his younger brother travel across the border into Mexico to confront the man who killed their father.
Texas, Adios
1966
5.3Twin brothers were raised by wolves, revolt against tyranny in pre-Roman Italy and then come to a parting of the ways as they lead their people toward the founding of a new city, the founders of Rome.
Romulus and Remus
1961
5.7Little Rita has a dream: she dreams of a better world and she believes that all the evil in the world originates from gold. So she has decided to blow up all the gold she can put her hands on. In her mission she is assisted by the Indian Chief Bisonte Seduto and by her friend Francis. Little Rita kills Ringo and Django, but she is taken prisoner by the Mexican bandit Sancho who wants to steal her gold. Black Star rescues her and seems determined to help her, but does he?
The Crazy Westerners
1967
5.4This loose adaptation of the Victor Hugo classic shifts the story to Italy and back in time, with the deformed protagonist meeting Lucrezia Borgia instead of Queen Anne. Also, Gwynplaine is renamed Angelo (Jean Sorel) with his disfigurement represented by a single broad slash across his mouth, crude yet convincing. The story (not credited to Hugo) is a swashbuckler pitting the disfigured acrobat against the henchmen of the Borgias.
The Man Who Laughs
1966
Behind the camera
7.0Anthropology student Daria, who's helping a property developer build a village in the Los Angeles desert, and dropout Mark, who's wanted by the authorities for allegedly killing a policeman during a student riot, accidentally encounter each other in Death Valley and soon begin an unrestrained romance.
Zabriskie Point
1970
6.3A mysterious gunfighter named Django is employed by a local crooked political boss as a hangman to execute innocent locals framed by the boss, who wants their land. What the boss doesn't know is that Django isn't hanging the men at all, just making it look like he is, and using the men he saves from the gallows to build up his own "gang" in order to take revenge on the boss, who, with Django's former best friend, caused the death of his wife years before.
Django, Prepare a Coffin
1968
6.0A Texan sheriff and his younger brother travel across the border into Mexico to confront the man who killed their father.
Texas, Adios
1966
5.3Twin brothers were raised by wolves, revolt against tyranny in pre-Roman Italy and then come to a parting of the ways as they lead their people toward the founding of a new city, the founders of Rome.
Romulus and Remus
1961
5.7Little Rita has a dream: she dreams of a better world and she believes that all the evil in the world originates from gold. So she has decided to blow up all the gold she can put her hands on. In her mission she is assisted by the Indian Chief Bisonte Seduto and by her friend Francis. Little Rita kills Ringo and Django, but she is taken prisoner by the Mexican bandit Sancho who wants to steal her gold. Black Star rescues her and seems determined to help her, but does he?
The Crazy Westerners
1967
5.4This loose adaptation of the Victor Hugo classic shifts the story to Italy and back in time, with the deformed protagonist meeting Lucrezia Borgia instead of Queen Anne. Also, Gwynplaine is renamed Angelo (Jean Sorel) with his disfigurement represented by a single broad slash across his mouth, crude yet convincing. The story (not credited to Hugo) is a swashbuckler pitting the disfigured acrobat against the henchmen of the Borgias.
The Man Who Laughs
1966
5.3Constantine is fighting against Barbarians with his father when he is called to Rome. In his way to Rome, he falls in an ambush planned by Maxence, who wants to become emperor.
Constantine and the Cross
1961
5.1A Mexican bandit teams up with a band of renegade Native Americans to avenge his older brothers when they are killed by a prankster, gold-obsessed bounty hunter.
Ringo and His Golden Pistol
1966
5.8An outlaw masquerades as a blind man's son in order to trick him into a cache of Gold. After a while he grows attached to the family and all goes well until the outlaws gang comes through town...
The Dirty Outlaws
1967
5.8An outlaw masquerades as a blind man's son in order to trick him into a cache of Gold. After a while he grows attached to the family and all goes well until the outlaws gang comes through town...
The Dirty Outlaws
1967
3.1The youngsters Folcacchio and Guffardo must bring an embassy to the Bishop of Volterra, and during the trip, the two boys meet the beautiful Gemmata. The woman is a poor peasant who is married to Nicholas. Folcacchio and Guffardo, to have a night of love with the girl, pretends to be magicians who can turn humans into beasts.
Una cavalla tutta nuda
1972
3.1The youngsters Folcacchio and Guffardo must bring an embassy to the Bishop of Volterra, and during the trip, the two boys meet the beautiful Gemmata. The woman is a poor peasant who is married to Nicholas. Folcacchio and Guffardo, to have a night of love with the girl, pretends to be magicians who can turn humans into beasts.
Una cavalla tutta nuda
1972
3.1The youngsters Folcacchio and Guffardo must bring an embassy to the Bishop of Volterra, and during the trip, the two boys meet the beautiful Gemmata. The woman is a poor peasant who is married to Nicholas. Folcacchio and Guffardo, to have a night of love with the girl, pretends to be magicians who can turn humans into beasts.
Una cavalla tutta nuda
1972
7.01936. In a village in the Bassa Padana, a beautiful and shapely forty-year-old girl is aunt of some boys in the middle of their sexual maturity.
My Dear Nephews
1974
7.01936. In a village in the Bassa Padana, a beautiful and shapely forty-year-old girl is aunt of some boys in the middle of their sexual maturity.
My Dear Nephews
1974
6.5Caterina, a young teacher, has a hobby of singing and occasionally delights her students.
Io non protesto, io amo
1967
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Al limite, cioè non glielo dico
1984
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Al limite, cioè non glielo dico
1984
7.0On the run from the police in Athens, a man named Jason has in his possession a microfilm eagerly sought by both criminal gangs and government agencies.
Death on the Run
1967
4.4Noblewoman Livia and her friend Marquis Cecco Ottobuoni take revenge against politician Fabrizio Siniscalchi, Livia's lover who dumped her for political reasons, by setting him up with a young prostitute Anna to cause a scandal.
That Movement Which I Love So Much
1976
4.4Noblewoman Livia and her friend Marquis Cecco Ottobuoni take revenge against politician Fabrizio Siniscalchi, Livia's lover who dumped her for political reasons, by setting him up with a young prostitute Anna to cause a scandal.
That Movement Which I Love So Much
1976
4.4Noblewoman Livia and her friend Marquis Cecco Ottobuoni take revenge against politician Fabrizio Siniscalchi, Livia's lover who dumped her for political reasons, by setting him up with a young prostitute Anna to cause a scandal.
That Movement Which I Love So Much
1976
7.3A University professor is being blackmailed by his own daughter for having an affair with one of her friends.
The Rage Within
1969
6.2With her sister's help, an unhappy housewife plots her revenge upon the men who have mistreated her with a display of sexual excess.
Emanuelle and Joanna
1979
6.2With her sister's help, an unhappy housewife plots her revenge upon the men who have mistreated her with a display of sexual excess.
Emanuelle and Joanna
1979
