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Paolo Bianchini

Born September 20, 1933 · Rome, Italy (age 93)

Paolo Bianchini (born 1931) is an Italian director and screenwriter. Born in Rome, Bianchini began his career in 1953 working as assistant director of a number of notable directors, including Mario Monicelli, Luigi Comencini, Vittorio De Sica, Mauro Bolognini and particularly Luigi Zampa, with whom he collaborated several times. From the second half of the 1960 Bianchini was also active as a dire…

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Grand Slam

Grand Slam · 1967

MovieCrimeThriller

Professor James Anders is a seemingly mild-mannered teacher, an American working in Rio De Janeiro. Anders, bored with years of teaching, decides to put together a team to pull off a diamond heist during the Rio Carnival. Four international experts are brought together to carry out the robbery: a safe cracking expert, a master thief, a mechanical genius, and a playboy.

Roaring Years

Roaring Years · 1962

In this satire inspired by Nikolai Gogol’s The Government Inspector (aka The Inspector General) and transported to fascist era Italy, the (supposed) incognito visit of a Roman fascist official to a tiny country town shakes deeply the ruling class and their lack of integrity.

Summer Frenzy

Summer Frenzy · 1964

Five episodes: a mature model makes his lover jealous; lovers quarrel; a clumsy Don Juan in business; a dancer and a captain; a beauty falls in love with a Spanish cyclist. The characters in the episodes intertwine, but the stories are not always treated with a light touch.

Superargo and the Faceless Giants

Superargo and the Faceless Giants · 1968

Superargo and the Faceless Giants

MovieScience FictionAdventure

A masked wrestler/superhero goes up against a madman and his army of robots.

It Happened at the Police Station

It Happened at the Police Station · 1954

It Happened at the Police Station

Everyday all kind of people pass through a Police Station, especially if it is downtown. Today, however, the chief of police has bought his first car and he has decided to test it with his wife going to Ostia. But first a theatrical company sent out of the theatre, last Alfredo Todini arrested while walking wearing a gown and in the mean a series of human cases, ranging from the pathetic to the funny one, get in the way of his wish.

The Demon

The Demon · 1964

MovieHorrorDrama

Purif is distraught when her lover is betrothed to another. When she summons the old ways to curse him, her erratic behavior is interpreted as demonic possession, and the villagers turn against her with physical and sexual violence.

Constantine and the Cross

Constantine and the Cross · 1961

Constantine and the Cross

MovieAdventureDrama

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.

A Matter of Honor

A Matter of Honor · 1966

A Matter of Honor

MovieComedyDrama

Efisio Mulas is a meek laborer who lives with occasional work, especially in Don Leandro Sanna's salon, and rounds up the slim balance by betting with colleagues in strength with the game "head against head". In the village the Sanna and Porcu families' conflict has lasted over a century.

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Grand Slam

Grand Slam · 1967

MovieCrimeThriller

Professor James Anders is a seemingly mild-mannered teacher, an American working in Rio De Janeiro. Anders, bored with years of teaching, decides to put together a team to pull off a diamond heist during the Rio Carnival. Four international experts are brought together to carry out the robbery: a safe cracking expert, a master thief, a mechanical genius, and a playboy.

Story

Roaring Years

Roaring Years · 1962

In this satire inspired by Nikolai Gogol’s The Government Inspector (aka The Inspector General) and transported to fascist era Italy, the (supposed) incognito visit of a Roman fascist official to a tiny country town shakes deeply the ruling class and their lack of integrity.

First Assistant Director

Summer Frenzy

Summer Frenzy · 1964

Five episodes: a mature model makes his lover jealous; lovers quarrel; a clumsy Don Juan in business; a dancer and a captain; a beauty falls in love with a Spanish cyclist. The characters in the episodes intertwine, but the stories are not always treated with a light touch.

First Assistant Director

Superargo and the Faceless Giants

Superargo and the Faceless Giants · 1968

Superargo and the Faceless Giants

MovieScience FictionAdventure

A masked wrestler/superhero goes up against a madman and his army of robots.

Director

It Happened at the Police Station

It Happened at the Police Station · 1954

It Happened at the Police Station

Everyday all kind of people pass through a Police Station, especially if it is downtown. Today, however, the chief of police has bought his first car and he has decided to test it with his wife going to Ostia. But first a theatrical company sent out of the theatre, last Alfredo Todini arrested while walking wearing a gown and in the mean a series of human cases, ranging from the pathetic to the funny one, get in the way of his wish.

Second Assistant Director

The Demon

The Demon · 1964

MovieHorrorDrama

Purif is distraught when her lover is betrothed to another. When she summons the old ways to curse him, her erratic behavior is interpreted as demonic possession, and the villagers turn against her with physical and sexual violence.

First Assistant Director

Constantine and the Cross

Constantine and the Cross · 1961

Constantine and the Cross

MovieAdventureDrama

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.

First Assistant Director

A Matter of Honor

A Matter of Honor · 1966

A Matter of Honor

MovieComedyDrama

Efisio Mulas is a meek laborer who lives with occasional work, especially in Don Leandro Sanna's salon, and rounds up the slim balance by betting with colleagues in strength with the game "head against head". In the village the Sanna and Porcu families' conflict has lasted over a century.

First Assistant Director

Woman of Rome

Woman of Rome · 1954

During the fascist era, Adriana a beautiful young model, becomes a prostitute after a love affair gone wrong. She meets Mino, a partisan who falls in love with her and wants to redeem her.

Second Assistant Director

I Want Him Dead

I Want Him Dead · 1968

I Want Him Dead

After his sister is kidnapped and murdered, a gunslinger's plans for vengeance involve assassinating two generals to prolong the Civil War.

Director

Corruption

Corruption · 1963

Stefano is a shy and sensitive teenager who has just completed his studies in Switzerland and is considering becoming a monk. But his father, a rich Milanese publisher, who had the ambition to see his son succeed him, refuses and takes him on a cruise with a young woman to take this idea out of his mind...

First Assistant Director

The Cossacks

The Cossacks · 1960

Set in the 1850s in Czar Alexander II's Russia, this drama and adventure film focuses on the strife between the Circassian Muslims, led by Shamil and Czar Alexander.

First Assistant Director

Sex Can Be Difficult

Sex Can Be Difficult · 1962

Sex Can Be Difficult

A journalist could marry the daughter of a tycoon, but prefers a relationship with a married woman. An attorney renounces her lover by greed. A soldier tries to approach a widow on a train. A German couple looking for adventure mistakingly aim for the wrong target, yet find love.

First Assistant Director

The Cavern

The Cavern · 1964

MovieAdventureWar

Adventure drama during WW2 in Italy where a mixed group of people get trapped inside a cave after a bomb raid. But can they co-operate? And will they survive?

Director

The Devil's Man

The Devil's Man · 1967

The Devil's Man

MovieScience FictionAdventure

Journalist Mike Harway decides to help his friend Christine in her search for her father, professor Baker, who mysteriously disappeared. The investigation brings them to Africa where they are captured and brought to the El Faium abandoned fort. It now hosts a laboratory designed by the twisted mind of Devilman, who dreams of swapping his natural brain with an artificial one that will make him perfect.

Director

Frammenti

Frammenti · 2019

MovieComedyDrama

Screenplay

He Thief, She Thief

He Thief, She Thief · 1958

He Thief, She Thief

Cencio, a roman pilferer, periodically is in prison. He meets Cesira that soon become his partner in crime. With Cesira's help Cencio try the big hit to a jewelery. But the lucky break is over.

First Assistant Director

Of Life and Love

Of Life and Love · 1954

Of Life and Love

A film made up of four episodes: a jar repairer gets trapped in a vat because of his hunch; a young unmarried mother is forced to beg to buy herself a fan; Rosario Chiarchiaro appears before a law court for casting spells; the discomfort of an overtight jacket gives a wedding witness the strength to persuade the bridegroom's reluctant parents to bless his union.

First Assistant Director

Gatling Gun

Gatling Gun · 1968

MovieActionHistory

This dramatization of the origin of Dr. Gatling's self-named invention stands tall in the annals of the Old West. As cavalry transported the high-tech gun across the dangerous frontier, it blasted its way into history to become the predecessor to the modern-day machine gun.

Director

The sun inside

The sun inside · 2012

MovieAdventureDrama

Yaguine and Fodé, two teenagers from African Guinea, wrote a letter to the "European Parlament great leaders", on behalf of all children and teens in Africa, where they ask for help with food, health and education. Ten years later, thirteen-year-old Thabo embarks on an epic journey with his friend Rocco from Bari to return to his own African village of 'Ndula to escape a ruthless Italian gang who are exploiting young football players.

Screenplay

Hey Amigo! A Toast to Your Death

Hey Amigo! A Toast to Your Death · 1971

Hey Amigo! A Toast to Your Death

Barnet, a bandit, and the eight men of his band lie waiting in a Texan village. Having confined the people of the village to their homes, they rob the stagecoach which arrives in town carrying a cargo of US $ 100,000 in gold. After the robbery, the bandits take refuge in a deserted mine but a post officer, Dove Williams, is on their track.

Director

God Made Them... I Kill Them

God Made Them... I Kill Them · 1968

God Made Them... I Kill Them

A bounty-hunter is hired by the residents of a small town on the Mexican border to stop a series of gold robberies by marauding outlaws who are coordinated by the town's corrupt banker.

Director

The Traffic Policeman

The Traffic Policeman · 1960

The Traffic Policeman

An unemployed man gets a job as traffic policeman but the traffic in the big city creates innumerous problems for the poor guy.

First Assistant Director

Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer

Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer · 1984

Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer

MovieDocumentary

A film of Enrico Berlinguer's funeral in Rome, briefly tracing his career as leader of the Italian Communist Party.

Director