FILM DIRECTOR

Sergio Martino

1938 - Today

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Sergio Martino (born 19 July 1938) is an Italian film director and producer, notable for his contributions to the giallo genre. Martino is the brother of the late producer Luciano Martino (who died in 2013). They collaborated frequently in their respective professions. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sergio Martino has received more than 188,346 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Sergio Martino is the 844th most popular film director (down from 760th in 2019), the 3,258th most popular biography from Italy (down from 2,951st in 2019) and the 62nd most popular Italian Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Sergio Martino ranks 844 out of 2,041. Before him are Raoul Coutard, Benjamin Christensen, Rustam Ibragimbekov, Rosa von Praunheim, Alexander Rou, and Luis Puenzo. After him are András Kovács, Dara Singh, Sergei Loznitsa, Irwin Winkler, Raymond Bernard, and Cristian Mungiu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Sergio Martino ranks 325. Before him are Waheeda Rehman, Theo-Ben Gurirab, Gary Chapman, Gordon Lightfoot, Andrey Lukanov, and Rafael Osuna. After him are Jay Garner, Maurizio Costanzo, Murtala Mohammed, James Farentino, Klaus Hänsch, and Sonny Barger.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Sergio Martino ranks 3,258 out of 5,161. Before him are Giancarlo Cornaggia-Medici (1904), Guaimar IV of Salerno (1013), Antonello Venditti (1949), Franca Raimondi (1932), Leandro Remondini (1917), and Hieronymus of Syracuse (-231). After him are Alahis (700), Livio Berruti (1939), Marcus Vinicius (null), Bruno Chizzo (1916), Alessandra Martines (1963), and Carlo Biagi (1914).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Italy

Among film directors born in Italy, Sergio Martino ranks 62. Before him are Clyde Geronimi (1901), Pupi Avati (1938), Giuseppe Rotunno (1923), Bruno Bozzetto (1938), Luis Trenker (1892), and Gianni Amelio (1945). After him are Ennio de Concini (1923), Luca Guadagnino (1971), Giuseppe Amato (1899), Pasquale Festa Campanile (1927), Francesco Maselli (1930), and Carlo Di Palma (1925).

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Filmography

L'allenatore nel pallone
Director
Oronzo Canà is called to coach Longobarda, the football team of a small town of Northern Italy, newly promoted to the First Division. His only task is not to be relegated, but Longobarda's owner plots against him, finding the team's current ranking far too expensive, and his top Brazilian striker is affected by a deep saudade.
Oct 26o 19846.5 / 10
L'allenatore nel pallone 2
Director
The famous Italian football coach Oronzo Canà has retired to a villa in Apulia. Now, old and tired, he is enjoying a quiet life there, cultivating his vineyard, when suddenly he is summoned to Milan, in northern Italy. There the elderly chairman of a great Lombard ("Longobarda") club is suffering from dementia and has lost his powers of judgement, and the club's manager has been fired. He has decided to bring back Oronzo Canà as trainer, remembering him from his great football team of thirty years before, tasking him with bringing the club back to its old winning ways. Oronzo puts his trust in the intervention of a Russian billionaire who has bought the club for promotion. But it is a deception.
Jan 11o 20084.5 / 10
Torso
Director
A masked serial killer with psychosexual issues strangles female coeds with scarves before dismembering them. When a wealthy student identifies one of the scarves and thinks she has a lead on a suspect, she becomes the killer's next target, retreating to her family's remote cliffside villa with three of her girlfriends.
Jan 4o 19736.582 / 10