---
name: "Maria Paola Maino"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/maria-paola-maino"
fi1m_id: "maria-paola-maino"
imdb_id: "nm0537761"
tmdb_id: 18334
wikidata_id: "Q3847448"
roles: ["Production designer"]
born: "1 January 1940"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 78
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-26T00:11:45.711962+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Maria Paola Maino

## Identity

Maria Paola Maino

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/maria-paola-maino
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** maria-paola-maino
- **IMDb ID:** nm0537761
- **TMDB ID:** 18334
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3847448
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3847448, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0537761/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/18334

Production designer. Born 1 January 1940 in Milan.

## Details

- **Work:** Production designer
- **Born:** 1 January 1940, Milan
- **Active:** 1970–1976
- **Frequently works with:** [Bernardo Bertolucci](https://film.one/person/bernardo-bertolucci.md), [Alberto Grimaldi](https://film.one/person/alberto-grimaldi.md), [Franco Arcalli](https://film.one/person/franco-arcalli.md)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3847448, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0537761/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/18334

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*1900*](https://film.one/film/1900.md) (70)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Maria Paola Maino is an Italian production designer, set decorator, art director and costume designer. She worked extensively with director Bernardo Bertolucci, her husband from 1967 to 1972, on several of his films.

Her credits for Bertolucci include production design on *The Spider's Stratagem* (1970), *Last Tango in Paris* (1972) and *1900* (1976), as well as costume design on *The Spider's Stratagem*. She also served as production designer on *Private Vices, Public Virtues* (1976) and art director on *Berlinguer: I Love You* (1977) and *Luna* (1979).

Maino has co-authored several books on Italian furniture and design history.

*Sources: imdb.com, it.wikipedia.org, fr.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *1900* (1976), Fi1m 70, Production design, Set Decoration, Production Design — [page](https://film.one/film/1900.md)
- *The Conformist* (1971), Fi1m 87, Set Decoration — [page](https://film.one/film/the-conformist.md)

## Complete filmography (10)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Via Panisperna Boys* (1989), as Props
- *Together?* (1979), as Art Direction
- *Luna* (1979), as Art Direction
- *Donne da slegare* (1978), Director
- *Berlinguer: I Love You* (1977), Production Design
- *1900* (1976), as Set Decoration · Production Design — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/1900.md)
- *Private Vices, Public Virtues* (1976), Costume Design
- *Last Tango in Paris* (1972), Production Design, Set Designer, Set Dresser
- *The Conformist* (1971), as Set Decoration — Fi1m 87, [page](https://film.one/film/the-conformist.md)
- *The Spider's Stratagem* (1970), Costume Design, Production Design

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