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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.
As director
Scossa
The Red Shadows
All Human Rights for All
Civico zero
Fragments of the Twentieth Century
The Spring of 2002 - Italy Protests, Italy Stops
Il compagno
Cronache del terzo millennio
Intolerance
Rome, November 12, 1994
Dawn
The Secret
Codice privato
Storia d'amore
Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer
Sabatoventiquattromarzo
Avventura di un fotografo
The Suspect
Open Letter to the Evening News
A Fine Pair
Kill Me Quick, I'm Cold
Time of Indifference
Latin Lovers
The Dolphins
Children in the Cinema
The Doll that Took the Town
Abandoned
Love in the City
Fioraie
Sport minore
As actor
Le Passeur immobile
Il segreto di Otello
Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance
Franco Cristaldi e il suo cinema Paradiso
Gillo of Ladies and Knights, of Loves and Arms
Uomini forti
Investigation of a Citizen Named Volonté
Cesare Zavattini
Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer
And the Ship Sails On
The Terrace
Amarcord
Open Letter to the Evening News
I Am Not God But I Am Michelangelo Antonioni