Franco Cristaldi
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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Fotos
Películas (77)
An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose
2022 · Self (archive footage)
Claudia Cardinale, la créature du secret
2019 · Self - Producteur (archive footage)
Franco Cristaldi e il suo cinema Paradiso
2009
Flight of the Innocent
1992 · Producer
Cinema Paradiso
1988 · Producer
Last Summer in Tangiers
1987 · Producer
Control
1987 · Producer
La rosa dei nomi
1987 · Self
The Name of the Rose
1986 · Producer
And the Ship Sails On
1983 · Producer
Hearts and Armour
1983 · Producer
Arrivano i miei
1983 · Producer
Tomorrow We Dance
1982 · Producer
Ho Fatto Splash
1980 · Producer
The Persian Lamb Coat
1980 · Producer
Café Express
1980 · Producer
Tesoromio
1979 · Producer
Operation Ogre
1979 · Associate Producer
Christ Stopped at Eboli
1979 · Producer
Ratataplan
1979 · Producer
My Loves
1978 · Producer
Wifemistress
1977 · Producer
Mr. Robinson
1976 · Producer
Movie Rush
1976 · Producer
What's Your Sign?
1975 · Producer
Blonde in Black Leather
1975 · Producer
Amarcord
1973 · Producer, Presenter
Lucky Luciano
1973 · Producer
Lady Caroline Lamb
1972 · Executive Producer
The Audience
1972 · Producer
Winged Devils
1972 · Producer
The Mattei Affair
1972 · Producer
In the Name of the Father
1971 · Producer
Open Letter to the Evening News
1970 · Producer
The Red Tent
1969 · Producer
Normal Young Man
1969 · Producer
Oh, Grandmother's Dead
1969 · Producer
Coup D'Etat
1969 · Producer
Alibi
1969 · Producer
A Fine Pair
1968 · Producer
China Is Near
1967 · Producer
Kill Me Quick, I'm Cold
1967 · Producer
Per amore... per magia...
1967 · Producer
Sandra
1965 · Producer
Time of Indifference
1964 · Producer
Seduced and Abandoned
1964 · Producer
Bebo's Girl
1964 · Producer
The Organizer
1963 · Producer
Crazy Sea
1963 · Producer
Omicron
1963 · Producer
My Son, the Hero
1962 · Producer
Salvatore Giuliano
1962 · Producer
Divorce Italian Style
1961 · Producer
Day by Day, Desperately
1961 · Producer
A Day for Lionhearts
1961 · Producer
Ghosts of Rome
1961 · Producer
The Assassin
1961 · Producer
The Dolphins
1960 · Producer
Fiasco in Milan
1959 · Producer
Come Dance with Me!
1959 · Producer
The Swindlers
1959 · Producer
South Wind
1959 · Producer
Rascel Marine
1958 · Producer
The Law Is the Law
1958 · Producer
The Challenge
1958 · Producer
Piece of the Sky
1958 · Producer
Big Deal on Madonna Street
1958 · Producer
Man of Straw
1958 · Producer
White Nights
1957 · Producer
Rascel-Fifì
1957 · Producer
Kean: Genius or Scoundrel
1957 · Producer
Nero's Mistress
1956 · Producer
A Hero of Our Times
1955 · Producer
The Seducer
1954 · Producer
Camilla
1954 · Producer
La pattuglia sperduta
1954 · Producer, Writer
Once Upon A Time...
· Producer
