Sergio Sollima

Sergio Sollima April 17 1921 July 1 2015 was an Italian film director and script writer Like many Italian cult directors Sollima started his career by directing mostly sword and sandal movies that were very popular in the early 1960s After the genres popularity quickly died out Sollima was among the first ones to move to spaghetti westerns The Big Gundown starring Lee Van Cleef and Tomas Milian was released in 1966 with big success despite the fact that it had to compete with Sergio Leones The Good the Bad and the Ugly and Sergio Corbuccis Django Sollima soon filmed two more westerns Face to Face Milian and Gian Maria Volonté was released in 1967 and Run Man Run Milian in 1968 Although Sollima directed only three westerns and they never reached the level of popularity as the ones by the other Sergios Leone and Corbucci each of them are highly regarded among genre enthusiasts In 1970 Sollima switched genres again and directed the Charles Bronson and Telly Savalas starred Violent City which was one of the first violent and fastpaced Italian crime films often known as poliziotteschi Like for all of his westerns the soundtrack was provided by Ennio Morricone Sollimas last wellknown film is Revolver a poliziotteschi film starring Oliver Reed and Fabio Testi Description above from the Wikipedia article Sergio Sollima licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia