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

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 Date: 2024-06-18

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Character: Self

Vote Count: 1

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 Date: 2016-01-01

Il segreto di Otello

Release Date: 2015-02-05

Character: Self

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 Date: 2014-10-23

Character: Generale

Vote Count: 44

Scossa

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

Release Date: 2012-03-16

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Noi c'eravamo

Release Date: 2011-10-26

Character: Self

Vote Count: 1

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 Date: 2008-01-01

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

Release Date: 2007-06-10

Character: Himself

Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds

italian documentary

Release Date: 2006-02-19

Character: Self

Vote Count: 1

Cesare Zavattini

Documentary about Italian film screenwriter Cesare Zavattini

Release Date: 2003-01-01

Character: Self

The Spring of 2002 - Italy Protests, Italy Stops

Release Date: 2002-05-01

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Il conto Montecristo

Release Date: 1997-06-22

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 6

Maggio musicale

Release Date: 1990-06-22

Department: Directing

Job: Director

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 Date: 1988-05-18

Character: Marquis Lucifero

Vote Count: 6

Fatto su misura

Release Date: 1985-02-01

Vote Count: 1

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 Date: 1984-09-08

Department: Editing

Job: Editorial Coordinator

Vote Count: 2

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 Date: 1984-09-01

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 Date: 1983-03-30

Character: Lo psicologo

Vote Count: 123

The Terrace

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

Release Date: 1980-02-08

Character: Un ospite

Vote Count: 142

Uova fatali

Release Date: 1977-02-27

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 2

Domenica In

Release Date: 1976-10-03

Character: Self

Episode Count: 1

A Common Sense of Modesty

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

Release Date: 1976-03-09

Character: Critical (uncredited)

Vote Count: 26

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 Date: 1974-12-21

Character: Presenter (uncredited)

Vote Count: 591

The End of the Game

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

Release Date: 1970-02-01

Character: l'intervistatore

Vote Count: 2

Contratto

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

Release Date: 1970-01-01

Department: Directing

Job: Director

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 Date: 1969-10-03

Character: Michele Parodi

Vote Count: 52

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 Date: 1969-04-20

Department: Directing

Job: Director

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 Date: 1969-02-01

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Il Circolo Pickwick

Release Date: 1968-02-04

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 6

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 Date: 1965-12-02

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 10

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 Date: 1964-12-26

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 6

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 Date: 1964-08-14

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 18

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 Date: 1962-04-12

Department: Directing

Job: Director