Francesco Maselli
Francesco Maselli (9 December 1930 – 21 March 2023), also known as Citto Maselli , was an Italian film director and screenwriter. Born into a well educated family (his father was an art critic) originally from the Molise region, Maselli graduated from the Italian National Film School in 1949 and began his career as an assistant and assistant director for Luigi Chiarini , Michelangelo Antonioni , and Luchino Visconti. After directing several short documentary and fiction films, he gave his feature film debut with the World War II drama Abandoned (1955), which premiered at the Venice Film Festival. Following a series of minor films, Maselli had greater success with Silver Spoon Set (1960, also titled The Dolphins ) and Time of Indifference (1964), an adaptation of a novel by Alberto Moravia. In the 1970s, Maselli turned to openly left-wing political films, notably Open Letter to a newspaper of the evening (1970) and The Suspect (1975), before shifting to more intimate films centered on female protagonists in the 1980s such as A Tale of Love (1986) and The Secret (1990). In 2021, Maselli was honored with a retrospective at the Venice Film Festival, where many of his films had seen their premiere. Maselli died in Rome on 21 March 2023, at the age of 92.
Open Letter to the Evening News
Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance
(Self)
Le Passeur immobile
(Self)
I Am Not God But I Am Michelangelo Antonioni
(Self)
Gillo of Ladies and Knights, of Loves and Arms
(Self)
Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer
(Self)
Franco Cristaldi e il suo cinema Paradiso
The Terrace
(se stesso)
Investigation of a Citizen Named Volonté
(Self - Interviewee)
Cesare Zavattini
(Self)
Amarcord
(Science Teacher)
Love in the City
(Director)
The Red Shadows
(Director)
The Red Shadows
(Story)
The Lady Without Camelias
(Screenplay)
The Suspect
(Director)
Time of Indifference
(Director)
A Fine Pair
(Director)
Open Letter to the Evening News
(Director)
Open Letter to the Evening News
(Writer)
Codice privato
(Director)
Codice privato
(Screenplay)
Abandoned
(Director)
Abandoned
(Screenplay)
Storia d'amore
(Director)
The Secret
(Director)
The Doll that Took the Town
(Screenplay)
The Dolphins
(Director)
Time of Indifference
(Screenplay)
Time of Indifference
(Dialogue)
Latin Lovers
(Director)
A Fine Pair
(Screenplay)
Cronache del terzo millennio
(Director)
Storia d'amore
(Screenplay)
The Dolphins
(Story)
The Dolphins
(Screenplay)
The Secret
(Writer)
Story of a Love Affair
(Screenplay)
Story of a Love Affair
(First Assistant Director)
Intolerance
(Director)
Latin Lovers
(Screenplay)
Three Girls from Rome
(First Assistant Director)
Scossa
(Director)
Kill Me Quick, I'm Cold
(Director)
Kill Me Quick, I'm Cold
(Story)
The Suspect
(Story)
The Suspect
(Screenplay)
We, the Women
(Assistant Director)
Civico zero
(Director)
The Lady Without Camelias
(First Assistant Director)
Sport minore
(Director)
Rome, November 12, 1994
(Idea)
The Doll that Took the Town
(Director)
Pact with the Devil
(Assistant Director)
Dawn
(Director)
Dawn
(Screenplay)
Dawn
(Story)
Fioraie
(Director)
Avventura di un fotografo
(Director)
Il compagno
(Director)
Rome, November 12, 1994
(Director)
The Spring of 2002 - Italy Protests, Italy Stops
(Director)
Children in the Cinema
(Director)
Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer
(Director)
Lies of Love
(Assistant Director)
All Human Rights for All
(Director)
Fragments of the Twentieth Century
(Director)
Bagnaia paese italiano
(Director)
Bambini
(Director)