Franco Rossetti was an Italian

film director A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, p ...

and

screenwriter A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based. ...

Life and career

Born in

Siena Siena ( , ; lat, Sena Iulia) is a city in Tuscany, Italy. It is the capital of the province of Siena. The city is historically linked to commercial and banking activities, having been a major banking center until the 13th and 14th centuri ...

, Rossetti started his career as a film critic, then in the early 1950s he entered the film industry as an assistant director. With the rise of the

Spaghetti Western The Spaghetti Western is a broad subgenre of Western films produced in Europe. It emerged in the mid-1960s in the wake of Sergio Leone's film-making style and international box-office success. The term was used by foreign critics because most o ...

genre, Rossetti developed a solid reputation as a screenwriter, especially thanks to the screenplays of '' Django'', ''

Texas, Adios ''Texas, Adios'' (Italian language, Italian: ''Texas, addio'') is a 1966 Italian/Spanish international co-production Spaghetti Western film directed by Ferdinando Baldi and starring Franco Nero. It is often referenced in connection with ''Django ...

'' and ''

Johnny Oro ''Ringo and His Golden Pistol'' ( it, Johnny Oro) is a 1966 Italian Spaghetti Western film directed by Sergio Corbucci and starring Mark Damon. Synopsis Renamed to cash in on the success of Duccio Tessari’s Ringo movies, ''Ringo and His Golde ...

''. He made his directorial debut in 1967 with the western ''

The Dirty Outlaws ''The Dirty Outlaws'', also known as ''Big Ripoff'', ''King of the West'' and ''The Desperado'' (in original Italian, ''El desperado''), is a 1967 Italian Spaghetti Western starring Andrea Giordana. Quentin Tarantino ranked the film 13th in his ...

'', and then he directed seven more films, spanning different genres.

Filmography

* 1967: ''

'' * 1969: ''Delitto al circolo del tennis'' * 1972: '' Una cavalla tutta nuda'' * 1974: ''Nipoti miei diletti'' * 1975: ''

Quel movimento che mi piace tanto ''Quel movimento che mi piace tanto'' (''That movement which I love so much'') is a 1976 Italian ''commedia sexy all'italiana'' written and directed by Franco Rossetti. It marked the film debut, both as actor and as assistant director, of Carlo Ve ...

'' * 1978: ''Il mondo porno di due sorelle'' * 1984: ''Il lebbroso'' * 1984: ''Al limite, cioè, non glielo dico''

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