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Occupation  film producer
Name  Franco Cristaldi
Role  Film producer

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Full Name  Franco Cristaldi
Born  October 3, 1924 (1924-10-03) Turin, Italy
Died  July 1, 1992, Monte Carlo, Monaco
Spouse  Zeudi Araya (m. 1983–1992), Claudia Cardinale (m. 1966–1975), Carla Simonetti (m. ?–1966)
Children  Massimo Cristaldi, Patrick Cristaldi
Awards  David di Donatello for Best Producer, BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Language Film
Movies  Cinema Paradiso, Amarcord, Big Deal on Madonna, Mr Robinson, Sandra of a Thousand Delights
Similar People  Zeudi Araya, Claudia Cardinale, Pasquale Squitieri, Giuseppe Tornatore, Giuseppe Rotunno

Le notti bianche


Franco Cristaldi (Turin, 3 October 1924 – Montecarlo, 1 July 1992) was an Italian film producer, credited with producing (or co-producing) feature films from the 1950s to the 1990s.

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Career

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In 1946 Cristaldi founded Vides Cinematografica in Turin. This production company initially produced short and documentary films, and would later be renamed to Cristaldifilm in the 1980s.

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In the 1950s, Cristaldi changed his attention to feature films and moved to Rome. During his long career, he worked with directors and screenwriters such as Francesco Rosi, Pietro Germi, Mario Monicelli, Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti, and Giuseppe Tornatore. A noted film producer from some years in his native Italy, some of Cristaldi's most successful films internationally included The Name of the Rose and Nuovo cinema Paradiso. (The former winning a César and two BAFTAs, and the latter winning several BAFTAs, the Grand Prix at Cannes, and Best Foreign Language Film at the 62nd Academy Awards).

In 1977 Cristaldi was elected president of the International Federation of Film Producers Associations, and was a member of the jury at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival.

Personal life

Cristaldi was born in Turin, Italy in 1924, and studied at university for a time before focusing his interests on cinema.

He was first married to Carla Simonetti with whom he had a son, Massimo. He applied to the Vatican to have this marriage annulled, and in 1966 married actress Claudia Cardinale. He mentored Cardinale through her own film career, producing many of her films, until their divorce in 1975. In 1983, he married Eritrean actress Zeudi Araya, who starred in several Cristaldi-produced films.

Franco Cristaldi died in Montecarlo in 1992, survived by his wife Zeudi, son Massimo, and adopted son Patrick, the son of Claudia Cardinale.

Selected filmography

  • A Hero of Our Times (1955)
  • Mio figlio Nerone, 1956;
  • Le notti bianche, 1957;
  • A Man of Straw, 1958;
  • Big Deal on Madonna Street, 1958;
  • Kapò, 1959;
  • Piece of the Sky, 1959;
  • Ghosts of Rome, 1961;
  • The Assassin, 1961;
  • Divorce, Italian Style, 1961;
  • Seduced and Abandoned, 1964;
  • Vaghe stelle dell'Orsa, 1965
  • Alibi 1969
  • The Red Tent, 1969
  • Oh, Grandmother's Dead (1969)
  • L'udienza, 1971
  • Amarcord, 1973
  • Christ Stopped at Eboli, 1979
  • Café Express, 1980
  • E la nave va, 1983;
  • The Name of the Rose, 1986;
  • Nuovo cinema Paradiso, 1988
  • References

    Franco Cristaldi Wikipedia