Title: Violent City
Content:  Violent City (Città violenta), also known as The Family, is a 1970 Poliziotteschi film directed by Sergio Sollima and starring Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland and Telly Savalas. Set and shot in the city of New Orleans, the film is an urban crime thriller with a plot of hitman revenge.
Title: Violent City
Content:  Violent City was released as Bronson was emerging from his career as a character actor into a period of stardom as a leading man; Sollima noted that while Bronson was a star in Europe at the time of the film's production, he was less popular with American audiences than Savalas, and suggested that this may have affected the film's commercial performance. It was released in Paris on October 16, 1970 as La cite de la violence. In the United States, Violent City was first released on April 1973 by International Co-Productions, during which it was retitled The Family to capitalize on the success of The Godfather, and later saw a wider release by United Artists. The English-dubbed version of the film runs eight minutes shorter than the original Italian prints.
Title: Violent City
Content:  Director Sergio Sollima was initially unenthusiastic about the treatment he was given for Violent City, stating that "the story was rather bad and rhetorical: a love story, a hitman who falls in love, nothing extraordinary. But we had the chance to shoot in the U.S., and I would do whatever it took to do that." He then rewrote the screenplay with filmmaker Lina Wertmüller, incorporating a flashback structure that was not present in the original draft. After Jon Voight and Sharon Tate were initially considered for the leading roles of Jeff and Vanessa, Sollima and producer Arrigo Colombo settled on 
Title: Violent City
Content:  In a 2010 interview, Danish film director Nicolas Winding Refn cited Violent City as his favorite Italian genre film.
Title: Violent City
Content:  From retrospective reviews, Italian film historian and critic Roberto Curti noted that the film had a "bare-bones story" with a style heavily borrowed from American hard-boiled films, specifically John Boorman's Point Blank. He felt that Sollima devised several "extraordinary scenes", namely the introductory car chases that were completely devoid of dialogue, and Jeff's final revenge. In an otherwise mixed review of the 2008 DVD release, Eric Henderson of Slant Magazine also singled out the opening car chase for praise, claiming that it almost outdoes those of Bullitt and The French Connection "by staging its engine-revving, pedestrian-dodging antics not on the wide streets of American cities but, rather, the narrow, winding pathways (and, in one case, staircases) of a Caribbean island."
Title: Violent Rome
Content:  Violent Rome (Roma violenta) is an Italian 1975 poliziottesco film directed by Marino Girolami It obtained a great commercial success and launched the career of Maurizio Merli. The film has two sequels, Violent Naples and A Special Cop in Action.
Title: Violent City
Content:  Cast adapted from the book Italian Crime Filmography.
Title: Violent City
Content:  In Italy, the film was distributed by Universal Pictures on September 17, 1970; it grossed a total of 950,652,000 Italian lire during its initial domestic run, and was less successful than Sollima's Spaghetti Westerns.
Title: Violent City
Content:  Violent City was released on DVD by Anchor Bay Entertainment, and later Blue Underground; both versions restore the scenes excised from the English version.
Title: Violent Life
Content:  Una vita violenta (internationally released as Violent Life) is a 1961 Italian drama film by Paolo Heusch and Brunello Rondi, at his directorial debut. It is based on a novel with the same name by Pier Paolo Pasolini. The film was shown as part of a retrospective "Questi fantasmi: Cinema italiano ritrovato" at the 65th Venice International Film Festival.

Question: Who was the director of Città violenta?
Answer: Sergio Sollima.