Ugo Gregoretti

Ugo Gregoretti (born 28 September 1930) is an Italian film, television and stage director, actor, screenwriter, author and television host. Born in Rome, Gregoretti entered RAI in 1953, working as a documentarist and a director. In 1960 he won the Premio Italia Award for the television documentary La Sicilia del Gattopardo. In 1962 he made his film debut with the comedy-drama I nuovi angeli. Since 1978 he started his activity on stage as director of prose and opera representations. His activity as director is mainly characterized by a sensitivity to the political and social issues combined to a peculiar use of irony and satire.

Works

We All Loved Each Other So Much

Three partisans bound by a strong friendship return home after the war, but the clash with everyday reality puts a strain on their bond.

Release Date1974-12-21

Charactersd Presenter (uncredited)

Vote Count601

The Terrace

Eight Italian politicians from the communist party gather on a terrace in Rome for a get-together. They discuss about their past, present and future.

Release Date1980-02-08

Charactersd Un ospite

Vote Count142

Help Me, My Love

Giovanni and Raffaella are happily married from ten years, but their relationship goes into crisis when Raffaella falls in love with Valerio Mantovani, a handsome forty-year-old man she knew during the concerts of chamber music she weekly attends with her mother.

Release Date1969-10-03

Charactersd Michele Parodi

Vote Count53

A Common Sense of Modesty

The film is divided into four episodes that blends sex and comedy.

Release Date1976-03-09

Charactersd Critical (uncredited)

Vote Count26

Rich and Poor

Pozzetto is a rich man obsessed by the idea of becoming poor. So, his psychiatric suggests him to leave home and live just like a poor man for some days. He will then become familiar with this way of living, and fear less the idea of becoming poor. So he does, and his old family & friends soon forget about him. They don't miss him at all.

Release Date1983-03-30

Charactersd Lo psicologo

Vote Count124

Good for Nothing

Easygoing Gianni looks forward to retirement - until he is informed that a change in the law obliges him to work three more years. Faced with the outrageous possibility of having to do a full day's work, he sets about finding a way to achieve a quiet life

Release Date2014-10-23

Charactersd Generale

Vote Count44

It's Happening Tomorrow

1848, Tuscan countryside. Edo and Lupo are two peasants running away after having robbed their boss. Chased by mercenaries, they'll meet bandits, damsels in distress, eccentric nobles, and revolutionaries along the way.

Release Date1988-05-18

Charactersd Marquis Lucifero

Vote Count6

The End of the Game

One of the first tv-movie of Gianni Amelio: a journalistic investigation about boys of Calabria.

Release Date1970-02-01

Charactersd l'intervistatore

Vote Count3

Il favoloso mondo di G. - Il cinema di Ugo Gregoretti

Release Date2007-06-10

Charactersd Himself

Domenica In

Domenica In

Release Date1976-10-03

Charactersd Self

Episode Count1

Noi c'eravamo

Release Date2011-10-26

Charactersd Self

Vote Count1

Io, il tubo e le pizze

Gregoretti's last film, in which the great filmmaker, documentary maker and journalist retraces his activity with irony and light-heartedness. Through episodes of his personal and professional life, and images of his films and television programs, a humorous story of how we were to understand that now, in reality, we are not so different.

Release Date2024-06-18

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Self

Vote Count1

Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds

italian documentary

Release Date2006-02-19

Charactersd Self

Vote Count1

Cesare Zavattini

Documentary about Italian film screenwriter Cesare Zavattini

Release Date2003-01-01

Charactersd Self

Il segreto di Otello

Release Date2015-02-05

Charactersd Self

Uova fatali

Uova fatali

Release Date1977-02-27

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count2

Il conto Montecristo

Il conto Montecristo

Release Date1997-06-22

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count6

Il Circolo Pickwick

Il Circolo Pickwick

Release Date1968-02-04

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count6

The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers

Five swindle stories, taking place in five international cities: Tokyo, Japan ("Fumiko's Five Benefactors" by Hiromichi Horikawa); Amsterdam, The Netherlands ("A River of Diamonds" by Roman Polanski); Naples, Italy ("The Road Map" by Ugo Gregoretti); Paris, France ("The Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower" by Claude Chabrol); and Marrakesh, Morocco ("The Confidence Man" by Jean-Luc Godard). Godard's segment was not included in the original French cinema release, and Polanski's segment was not included on the 2016 home disc release.

Release Date1964-08-14

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count19

The Spring of 2002 - Italy Protests, Italy Stops

Release Date2002-05-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Ro.Go.Pa.G.

Four short films by four different directors dealing with the principles of modern life.

Release Date1963-02-19

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count130

Omicron

An alien takes over the body of a factory worker in order to learn about Earth so his race can take it over.

Release Date1963-09-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count15

Rita the American Girl

Professor Serafino Benvenuti is a master of classical music who has the passion of the orchestra director. However, the young audience of the 60 does not appreciate classical composers like Mozart or Beethoven, and so Serafino is likely to have compromised his image as a director. One day Serafino receives the news that his adopted daughter Rita is about to return to Italy from America, where she is studying. Serafino is very happy, because at least he can teach her the real music. However, Rita is deeply grown and changed: she follows the musical patterns of her time: the rock music and blues. Serafino gets very angry, especially when he discovers that his daughter falls in love with a young man, a member of a band called "The Rockets.

Release Date1965-12-02

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count10

Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer

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

Release Date1984-09-08

DepartmentEditing

JobEditorial Coordinator

Vote Count2

Beautiful Families

The film's theme is four episodes that offer the public a glimpse into the lives of rich and poor families in Italy in the 1960s.

Release Date1964-12-26

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count6

Malamondo

This documentary looks at strange behaviors and practices in Europe, including nude skiing in Switzerland, hot-butchering in Italy, and an orgy in a graveyard.

Release Date1964-04-30

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count6

The Road Map

Centers on a band of hookers who listen to their pimp and seek out old men in retirement villages. They convince the old fellows to marry them so they will not be forced to leave the city. Unfortunately for the pimp, the delighted geezers will not allow their brides to work.

Release Date1964-08-14

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Il pollo ruspante

Gregoretti's Il pollo ruspante ("Free Range Chicken") shows an Italian middle-class family with two children traveling via an autostrada (highway) to the site of a real-estate project where they could be interested in buying a detached house.

Release Date1963-02-19

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Maggio musicale

Release Date1990-06-22

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

The New Angels

Falling somewhere in-between a documentary and a droll drama (more like an enactment of reality, with a wink), this film by TV director Ugo Gregoretti looks in on a variety of social and ethnic situations throughout Italy. Sexual morés are contrasted, from the quaintly out-of-date courtship in Sicily to the sometimes uncomfortably explicit sexual references in the conversations of the youth at the opposite end of the country. Aside from these manners and morals, there is an examination of what happens when mechanized tools of production begin to take away from the human element at factories and in other industrial venues.

Release Date1962-04-12

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Incontri 1969 - Roberto Rossellini: i segreti di un mito

An hour with Roberto Rossellini. Interviewed by Gregoretti, the director of Paisà and Europa 51 retraces his life, his work, his relationship with the young critics of the Cahiers du Cinéma who would become the authors of the French New Wave, but also talks about his participation in the May '68 events in Paris. Passing from one theme to another emerges the thought of one of the key figures of the last century and not only in the cinematographic field, a lucid and passionate vision, typical of Rossellini, which combines science, conscience and knowledge and an obstinate faith in the capacities of Man.

Release Date1969-02-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Scossa

100 years ago, a terrible earthquake, followed by an equally terrible tidal wave, devastated and largely destroyed Messina and Reggio Calabria.

Release Date2012-03-16

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Apollon: una fabbrica occupata

The film documents the trade union battle of the workers of the Apollon printing house in Rome, occupied for a few months after the management decided to fire all the personnel and sell the land on which the factory was standing. In the form of a docu-fiction, the events of the long occupation are reconstructed, which began on June 4, 1967 and ended in December 1968. The workers play themselves and various other roles, but they are also co-authors of the film, which is not a simple chronicle of events, but an analytical reading of the reality of the factory, the story of the conquest of instruments of struggle and democracy, with the indication of strategies of attack on the bosses' power. The narrative voice of Gian Maria Volonté gives continuity to the story and comments on the events.

Release Date1969-04-20

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Sabatoventiquattromarzo

Release Date1984-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Contratto

Factory workers struggles over contracts in post-68 Italy documented through original footage.

Release Date1970-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Fatto su misura

Release Date1985-02-01

Vote Count1

La rabbia 1, la rabbia 2, la rabbia 3... l'Arabia

The story of La Rabbia by Pier Paolo Pasolini and Giovanni Guareschi, a movie lost in the archives of a laboratory in Rome, and recently re-discovered.

Release Date2008-01-01

Papà Ugo - I Gregoretti si raccontano

An unusual portrait of Ugo Gregoretti, actor, film, television and theater director, and father of 5 children. His children and his wife tell us about him, going through the years spent together, talking about his irony and tenderness, his indulgence and his ability to make people smile.

Release Date2016-01-01

Pirata! Cult Movie

In a hypothetical future not too far away people are completely dazed and spend their days passively watching TV. The state is controlled by a dictator, the Supreme Dreamer, who governs through the brutal force of the police, whose agents have a very elegant yellow and black latex outfit. The only entertainment of the people is to watch the dictator's dreams on TV, which are aired through a hat. One day the protagonist, an anarchist rebel with fake mustache, steals the dictator's hat. At that point begins his escape during which he will meet some very special characters.

Release Date1984-09-01

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