Franco Cristaldi

Producteur

3 octobre 1924 — 1 juillet 1992 (67 ans)
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.

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.

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.

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 from 1966 lived with actress Claudia Cardinale. Cristaldi claimed to have married Cardinale, but she refuted this, saying he threw a marriage party, without ever officially marrying her. He mentored Cardinale through her own film career, producing many of her films, until their separation 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.

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Films & Séries sur Plex

  • Le Nom de la rose
    Le Nom de la rose1986
  • Hold-up à la milanaise
    Hold-up à la milanaise1959

Connue pour

  • Cinema Paradiso
    Cinema Paradiso1988
  • Le Nom de la rose
    Le Nom de la rose1986
  • Le Train
    Le Train1964
  • Le Christ s'est arrêté à Eboli
    Le Christ s'est arrêté à Eboli1979
  • Kapo
    Kapo1960
  • Sandra
    Sandra1965
  • Mr. Robinson
    Mr. Robinson1976
  • Lucky Luciano
    Lucky Luciano1973
  • Et vogue le navire
    Et vogue le navire1983
  • Salvatore Giuliano
    Salvatore Giuliano1962
  • Les Camarades
    Les Camarades1963
  • Le choix des seigneurs
    Le choix des seigneurs1983
  • Un héros de notre temps
    Un héros de notre temps1955
  • La Maîtresse légitime
    La Maîtresse légitime1977
  • Profession Magliari
    Profession Magliari1959
  • La vie tumultueuse de Lady Caroline Lamb
    La vie tumultueuse de Lady Caroline Lamb1972
  • La course de l'innocent
    La course de l'innocent1992
  • Hold-up à la milanaise
    Hold-up à la milanaise1959
  • Voulez-vous danser avec moi ?
    Voulez-vous danser avec moi ?1959
  • Le Défi
    Le Défi1958

Filmographie

1992
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1988
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1987
1986
1983
1983
1983
1982
Marco Polo · as Co-Producer
1982
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1979
Operation Ogre · as Associate Producer
1979
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Lady Caroline Lamb · as Executive Producer
1972
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1965
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The Lions Are Loose · as Co-Producer
1961
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