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

Zabriskie Point poster
7.0

Anthropology 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

Django, Prepare a Coffin poster
6.3

A 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

Texas, Adios poster
6.0

A Texan sheriff and his younger brother travel across the border into Mexico to confront the man who killed their father.

Texas, Adios

1966

Romulus and Remus poster
5.3

Twin 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

The Crazy Westerners poster
5.7

Little 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

The Man Who Laughs poster
5.4

This 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

Zabriskie Point poster
7.0

Anthropology 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

Django, Prepare a Coffin poster
6.3

A 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

Texas, Adios poster
6.0

A Texan sheriff and his younger brother travel across the border into Mexico to confront the man who killed their father.

Texas, Adios

1966

Romulus and Remus poster
5.3

Twin 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

The Crazy Westerners poster
5.7

Little 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

The Man Who Laughs poster
5.4

This 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

Constantine and the Cross poster
5.3

Constantine 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

Ringo and His Golden Pistol poster
5.1

A 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

The Dirty Outlaws poster
5.8

An 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

The Dirty Outlaws poster
5.8

An 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

Una cavalla tutta nuda poster
3.1

The 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

Una cavalla tutta nuda poster
3.1

The 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

Una cavalla tutta nuda poster
3.1

The 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

My Dear Nephews poster
7.0

1936. 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

My Dear Nephews poster
7.0

1936. 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

Io non protesto, io amo poster
6.5

Caterina, a young teacher, has a hobby of singing and occasionally delights her students.

Io non protesto, io amo

1967

Al limite, cioè non glielo dico poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Al limite, cioè non glielo dico

1984

Al limite, cioè non glielo dico poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Al limite, cioè non glielo dico

1984

Death on the Run poster
7.0

On 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

That Movement Which I Love So Much poster
4.4

Noblewoman 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

That Movement Which I Love So Much poster
4.4

Noblewoman 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

That Movement Which I Love So Much poster
4.4

Noblewoman 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

The Rage Within poster
7.3

A University professor is being blackmailed by his own daughter for having an affair with one of her friends.

The Rage Within

1969

Emanuelle and Joanna poster
6.2

With 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

Emanuelle and Joanna poster
6.2

With 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