The life of Giuliano Montaldo, one of Italy’s leading filmmakers, who, in parallel with an enviable, eminently successful career, also played an important institutional role in the creation of Raicinema, as its president. A fleshed-out portrait of a great director and intellectual, but at the same time a profile of an ironic, elegant personality who made cinema his lifelong passion, but also a very personal tool for his artistic inquiry and his outspoken aversion of intolerance. From Genoa to Rome, first as an actor and then as a director, stock footage, photographs and private papers reveal the essence of this great auteur who is seen as both a filmmaker and an oldworld gentleman from another time.