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Personal Info

Known For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1930-09-28

Place of Birth

Rome, Italy

Ugo Gregoretti

Biography

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.

Known for

Domenica In

Domenica In

We All Loved Each Other So Much

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.

Uova fatali

Uova fatali

Based on 1925 Bulgakov's The Fatal Eggs, a zoologist finds a way to accelerate embryo growth in chicken eggs to help feed the population after the war. An unfortunate logistical accident makes the country swarmed with dangerous reptiles.

Cesare Zavattini

Cesare Zavattini

Documentary about Italian film screenwriter Cesare Zavattini

Papà Ugo - I Gregoretti si raccontano

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.

The Terrace

The Terrace

A terrace in Rome is a recurrent gathering place for a group of friends from the intellectual upper-class. Their lives unfold and intertwine, as they struggle with aging, disappointment and disillusion, until they are left with the realization that their generation, and everything it stood for, is coming to an end.

Pinocchio (mal)visto dal Gatto e la Volpe

Pinocchio (mal)visto dal Gatto e la Volpe

Ugo Gregoretti and Andrea Camilleri, renowned writers and longtime friends, have fun dressing up and playing the roles of the Cat (Gregoretti) and the Fox (Camilleri) in this surprising adaptation of *Pinocchio*, told entirely in rhyming verse and song.

Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds

Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds

Created by his son Leonardo, this portrait of Adolfo Celi reconstructs his personal and artistic journey between Italy and Brazil. Through interviews, film clips, testimonials, photos, and extraordinary footage from the Celi family's personal archive, we will revisit the places that shaped his life.

A Common Sense of Modesty

A Common Sense of Modesty

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

Fatto su misura

Fatto su misura

Help Me, My Love

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.

It's Happening Tomorrow

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.

Pirata! Cult Movie

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.

Rich and Poor

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.

Il segreto di Otello

Il segreto di Otello