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Damiano Damiani

Damiano Damiani

Italian screenwriter, film director, actor and writer
July 23, 1922 (March 7, 2013)

Angel With a Gun

V.O.: L'Angelo con la Pistola
It. 1992. Crime drama by Damiano Damiani with Tahnee Welch, Remo Girone, Eva Grimaldi. A police chief and a waitress decide to get rid of their city's worst criminals.
Runtime: 111 min.
U.S. 1982. Fantasy by Damiano Damiani with James Olson, Jack Magner, Diane Franklin. Recently settled in with his family in New England, a boy seems to be inhabited by an evil spirit that drives him to perverse acts.
Runtime: 104 min.

Un Juge en danger

V.O.: Io ho paura
Runtime: 120 min.

Un Génie, deux associés, une cloche

V.O.: Un genio, due compari, un pollo
It. 1975. Western by Damiano Damiani with Terence Hill, Robert Charlebois, Miou-Miou. An adventurer with the help of his girlfriend and a half-breed tries to rob a cavalry officer who has become rich on the backs of the Natives.
Runtime: 120 min.

The Devil Is a Woman

V.O.: Il Sorriso del grande tentatore
It. 1973. Psychological drama by Damiano Damiani with Glenda Jackson, Claudio Cassinelli, Lisa Harrow.
Runtime: 105 min.

Nous sommes tous en liberté provisoire

V.O.: L'Istruttoria e chiusa: dimentichi
It. 1971. Social drama by Damiano Damiani with Franco Nero, Riccardo Cucciolla, Turi Ferro. An architect, arrested for a hit-and-run, discovers the harsh conditions of the prison system.
Runtime: 106 min.

Confessions of a Police Captain

V.O.: Confessione di un commissario di polizia al procuratore della repubblica
It. 1971. Crime drama by Damiano Damiani with Martin Balsam, Franco Nero, Marilu Tolo. A commissioner leads a fierce struggle against a shady and very influential business person.
Runtime: 104 min.

Seule contre la mafia

V.O.: La Moglie piu bella
It. 1970. Mores drama by Damiano Damiani with Ornella Muti, Alessio Orano, Pierluigi Apra. The tribulations of a Sicilian teenager who decides to break off her engagement with the nephew of a mafia boss.
Runtime: 109 min.

La Mafia fait la loi

V.O.: Il giorno della civetta
It. 1968. Crime drama by Damiano Damiani with Franco Nero, Lee J. Cobb, Claudia Cardinale. In Sicily, an armed police captain tries to charge the head of the local mafia with murder.
Runtime: 102 min.

A Bullet for the General

V.O.: Quién sabe?
It. 1967. Western by Damiano Damiani with Gian Maria Volonté, Klaus Kinski, Martine Beswick. In the pay of a revolutionary general, Mexican arms dealers accept an American mercenary into their gang, without suspecting his motives.
Runtime: 118 min.

Aura

V.O.: La Strega in amore
Runtime: 103 min.

Les Femmes des autres

V.O.: La Rimpatriata
It. 1963. Psychological drama by Damiano Damiani with Walter Chiari, Jacqueline Pierreux, Paul Guers. Five old friends celebrate their reunion in gallant company.
Runtime: 110 min.

The Empty Canvas

V.O.: La Noia
It. 1963. Psychological drama by Damiano Damiani with Horst Buchholz, Catherine Spaak, Isa Miranda. A young man sees his life turned upside down by a failed relationship.
Runtime: 105 min.

Arturo's Island

V.O.: L'isola di Arturo
It. 1961. Psychological drama by Damiano Damiani with Vanni de Maigret, Reginald Kernan, Kay Meersman. A teenager falls in love with the young woman his father has just married.
Runtime: 95 min.

The Cossacks

V.O.: I Cosacchi
It. 1960. Adventures by Viktor Tourjansky, Giorgio Rivalta with Edmund Purdom, John Drew Barrymore, Giorgia Moll. Raised in Russia, the son of a rebellious Cossack chief tries to get his father to make peace with Tsar Alexander II.
Runtime: 114 min.

Jeux précoces

V.O.: Il Rossetto
It. 1960. Psychological drama by Damiano Damiani with Laura Vivaldi, Pierre Brice, Pietro Germi. A thirteen-year-old teenager becomes infatuated with a young man who may be involved in the murder of a prostitute.
Runtime: 90 min.

Herod the Great

V.O.: Erode il Grande
It. 1958. History by Viktor Tourjansky with Edmund Purdom, Sylvia Lopez, Massimo Girotti. The tyrannical reign of Herod the Great, king of Judea.
Runtime: 93 min.

Prisoner of the Volga

V.O.: I Battellieri del Volga
It. 1958. Melodrama by Viktor Tourjansky with John Derek, Dawn Addams, Elsa Martinelli. Imprisoned for having beaten his superior that had abused his wife, a young officer escapes and sets out to take revenge.
Runtime: 95 min.

The Goddess of Love

V.O.: La Venere di Cheronea
It. 1957. History by Viktor Tourjansky with Massimo Girotti, Jacques Sernas, Belinda Lee. A Greek sculptor, jealous that his young model has fallen in love with a Macedonian soldier, denounces him and has him arrested.
Runtime: 69 min.

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