
Birthday:
09-04-1927
Deathday:
02-11-2000 (72 years)
Birthplace:
Rome, Italy
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Cinecittà: sui set dei film western italiani (1967) - Spaghetti Western
event1967
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Video containing a fragment of the journalistic reportage "Roma 4 - Passeggiate per la città" (1967) by Bernardino Zapponi and Stefano De Stefani, where attention is directed to Cinecittà and in particular to the sets where, in that period, numerous scenes were shot of Italian western films, the so-called "spaghetti westerns".
Fellini: A Director’s Notebook
Act like Self
event1969 star_border 6.7
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Fellini discusses his views of making motion pictures and his unorthodox procedures. He seeks inspiration in various out of the way places. During this film viewers go with him to the Colisseum at night, on a subway ride past Roman ruins, to the Appian Way, to a slaughterhouse, and on a visit to Marcello Mastroianni's house. Fellini also is seen in his own office interviewing a series of unusual characters seeking work or his help.
E il Casanova di Fellini?
Act like Self
event1975
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During his preparation for his film on Casanova Fellini asks a number of renowned actors to give him their view on the character of Casanova.
Fellini Satyricon
Screenplay
event1969 star_border 6.7
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After his young lover, Gitone, leaves him for another man, Encolpio decides to kill himself, but a sudden earthquake destroys his home before he has a chance to do so. Now wandering around Rome in the time of Nero, Encolpio encounters one bizarre and surreal scene after another.
Deep Red
Screenplay
event1975 star_border 7.8
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An English pianist living in Rome witnesses the brutal murder of his neighbor, a psychic. With the help of a tenacious young reporter he tries to discover the killer using very unconventional methods, and the two are soon drawn into a shocking web of dementia and violence.
Roma
Screenplay
event1972 star_border 7.2
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A virtually plotless, gaudy, impressionistic portrait of Rome through the eyes of one of its most famous citizens.
Duck in Orange Sauce
Screenplay
event1975 star_border 6.2
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When his wife wants a divorce -- in preference of a romantic Frenchman -- husband Livio seemingly accepts. But when he sets up a last weekend together with his secretary and his wife's lover, the trip turns out to be part of an elaborate plan to win his wife back.
Dear Father
Screenplay
event1979 star_border 6.4
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In Caro papá, Dino Risi is telling the story of the decadent lifestyle, and dysfunctional family, of a wealthy businessman (played to perfection by Risi's favorite leading man, Vittorio Gassman). Risi paints his portrait against a backdrop of an Italy where the new permissiveness has run rampant, traditional socio-cultural values have been usurped by consumerism, and the streets have become an open battleground for politically extremist groups (the '70s were dubbed "The Years of Lead" due to the great number of terrorist acts, and politically motivated assassinations).
Stardust
Screenplay
event1973 star_border 6.7
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The lives of two local professional dancers change suddenly as American soldiers stop in their town hoping to be entertained in accordance with the Broadway style. Effectively, they perform up to their expectations. However, as the army men have to march northward, their moment of glory finishes heartlessly.
The New Monsters
Story
event1977 star_border 6.9
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A 1977 Italian comedy film composed of 14 episodes, directed by Dino Risi, Ettore Scola and Mario Monicelli. It is a sequel to I mostri, made in 1963.
Ghost of Love
Screenplay
event1981 star_border 7.1
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Over two decades after their affair ended, a married man is haunted by the presence of his former lover.
I'll Be Going Now
Screenplay
event1991 star_border 6.1
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After eighteen years of psychiatric care, the former bank manager Augusto Scrivani returns home from his daughter-in-law Carla. Dino Risi directs a melancholy and scratchy Gassman.
Sesso e volentieri
Screenplay
event1982 star_border 4.2
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Ten segments, all starring Johnny Dorelli and all having sex and sexual perversions as main theme.
The Priest's Wife
Screenplay
event1970 star_border 6.1
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After discovering her boyfriend is married, a young woman attempts suicide but survives and falls for the priest who took her call, leading to complications with his vow of celibacy.
Lost Soul
Screenplay
event1977 star_border 6.6
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Bizarre events keep occurring in an old mansion, and it's soon become obvious that something mysterious is up in the attic.
Caprice Italian Style
Writer
event1968 star_border 6.2
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The film consists of six short stories created by different directors, but all the stories share one thing: a warm irony to current events.
Teresa
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event1987 star_border 4.2
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Teresa is a young widow who is concentrated on her little business until she hires Gino.
Plot of Fear
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event1976 star_border 5.4
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Plot of Fear tells the story of a decadent weekend party full of orgies and drugs on the outskirts of Milan. After two deaths occur Inspector Lomenzo interrogates one of the guests, a fashion model who becomes his informant, as well as his lover. Clery reveals that after a “wildlife orgy”one of the hosts tried to jokingly feed one of the prostitutes to a tiger but she got so frightened that she died of heart attack. In his attempt to find a connection between the victims, he investigates a cutting-edge security and surveillance firm whose director has secrets of his own to hide.
The Career of a Chambermaid
Story
event1976 star_border 4.9
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This slight skewering of the mindset of the Fascist era when Italy’s “White Telephone” films (conservative minded sophisticated comedy-dramas revolving around the bourgeoisie) were in vogue gives Agostina Belli her best role – an ambitious Venetian girl that goes from chambermaid to prostitute to singer to film-star to mistress of ‘Il Duce’! – for which she received a special David Di Donatello award, the Italian equivalent of the Oscar.
Traffic Jam
Screenplay
event1979 star_border 6.8
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A tremendous congestion hits the Rome highway ring. The biggest traffic jam ever seen lasts more than 36 hours. At the beginning the people blocked in their cars react normally. But as more time passes, the more we witness personal dramas, hysteric reactions and other grotesque situations. All the episodes are linked as if in a single plot. Cars and their hosts are a microcosm of stories part of a larger universe: the congestion.
Miracolo italiano
Story
event1994 star_border 4.1
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7 segments about life in 1990s Italy: two MPs from the opposite sides of the political spectrum spend the night together; during their honeymoon, a woman cheats on her husband with her favorite soap opera star; a married man pretends to be ill to seduce his younger nurse; a family discovers that their son's beautiful fiancée is transgender; an unsatisfied single woman is duped by her celebrity crush for Kevin Costner; two best friends want to have fun; a couple on a tropical holiday is fascinated by their indigenous masseuse.
This and That
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event1983 star_border 4.8
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Two episodes. The 1st is 'Amore impossibile' (Impossible love). Giulio is a comic book draftsman. He is passing through a creativity depressed period. One day his editor makes him meet a blond nice girl. Immediately Giulio fall in love and starts to draw his impossible love story into a new comic book. The 2nd is 'Quello dal basco rosso' (the one with the red beret). Sandro, a mature man, meets one of his former girlfriend and her daughter Daniela. Daniela couldn't have sex with her boyfriend because of a childhood remembrance. In fact she always remember her mother having sex with a man wearing a red beret. She discovers that man is Sandro, makes love with him and soon recovers from her obsession.
Dio li fa poi li accoppia
Story
event1982 star_border 5.1
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At carnival, a girl disguised as a devil seduces the parish priest of a village. She becomes pregnant, but the priest can not support his intention to abort and drag her to court.
Leonor
Writer
event1975 star_border 5.5
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Richard is a medieval nobleman. After his first wife dies in an accident and is buried in the family vault, he remarries and has children by his second wife. A mad longing for his first wife Leonor comes over him, and he sells his soul to the devil for a chance to get her back. But when she returns, she is a murderous vampire.
He's Worse than Me
Story
event1985 star_border 6.2
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Two reckless friends Leonardo (Adriano Celentano) and Luciano (Renato Potstsetto) are just doing whatever they want and getting into endless alterations. When one of them decides to marry, their friendship is in a crisis ...
The Marquis of Grillo
Story
event1981 star_border 7.8
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In 18th-century Rome, impish aristocrat Onofrio del Grillo amuses himself by playing pranks on all sorts of people — his reactionary family and fellow nobles, the poors, the French occupiers trying to modernize society, and even the Pope himself.
City of Women
Story
event1980 star_border 7
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The charismatic Snaporaz encounters an alluring woman on a train and pursues her through a forest. He ends up at a hotel populated by women gathered for a feminist conference, where he is an unwanted presence. Snaporaz soon discovers he’s entered a phantasmagoric world where women have taken power.
The Witches
Screenplay
event1967 star_border 6.1
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Five short stories loosely dealing with the roles of women in society. A superstar actress travels to a mountain resort, only to evoke jealousy from women and lust from men. A woman offers to take an injured man to the hospital. A widowed father and his son seek for a new wife/mother. A man seeks revenge for a woman's honor. A bored housewife tries to explain to her husband that he's not as romantic as he used to be.
Spirits of the Dead
Screenplay
event1968 star_border 6.3
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Anthology film from three European directors based on stories by Edgar Allan Poe: a cruel countess haunted by a ghostly horse, a sadistic young man haunted by his double, and an alcoholic actor haunted by the Devil.
The Clowns
Screenplay
event1970 star_border 7
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Fellini exposes his great attraction for the clowns and the world of the circus first recalling a childhood experience when the circus arrives nearby his home. Then he joins his crew and travel from Italy to Paris chasing the last greatest European clowns still live in these countries. He also meets Anita Ekberg trying to buy a panther in a circus.
Stuff for the Rich
Screenplay
event1987 star_border 5.2
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3 episodes set in Monte Carlo. In the first one a priest is compelled to become the lover of a princess. In the second, a con woman tries to cheat an insurance man. In the third, a man has to deal with his wife's suicidal attempts.
I Am an ESP
Story
event1985 star_border 5.7
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Roberto Razzi, skeptical and convinced atheist, is the conductor of the Futuro program, in which he unmasks the most common tricks and deceptions that make the miracle cry out to everyone.
Rimini Rimini
Story
event1987 star_border 4.8
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Funny, entertaining comedy with a few storylines. All of them have one thing in common - a resort town of Rimini in Italy.
Sweet Pea
Story
event1981 star_border 5.5
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Cristiano, aged thirteen, seems to be a teen-ager with clear ideas about his future. One evening he meets May, a stranger, who is probably drunk and, so, she ends up in his bed. An unforgettable night... The morning after, May leaves and vanishes. Some years later, a "surprise" knocks at Cristiano's door: a child, his child, sent there by May, who's vanished again. Abandoned by his own parents, Cristiano will assume his responsibilities and will leave with the child to know Milan, the city he lives in and its people.
A Sky Full of Stars for a Roof
Screenplay
event1968 star_border 5.7
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The bandit Pratt, looking for Tim, who is responsible for the death of his two sons, attacks a caravan killing all the passengers. Harry, the vagabond, after having robbed the dead, casually meets Tim and they become friends. Running away together from Pratt, they reach Harry's farm, but their hiding place is soon discovered.
Fellini's Casanova
Screenplay
event1976 star_border 7
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Casanova is a libertine, collecting seductions and sexual feats. But he is really interested in someone, and is he really an interesting person? Is he really alive?
Viva Cangaceiro
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event1969 star_border 6.5
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Brazil, the 1920s. The sadistic colonel Minas massacres the hometown of a famous cangaceiro (a kind of revolutionary bandit). The only survivor is a young farmer called Espedito; he is nursed back to health by a hermit who thinks he has been sent by God and therefore baptizes him the Redeemer. Espedito/The Redeemer forms his own gang of cangaceiros but doesn’t really understand what he’s doing until he befriends the proverbial European intellectual, a Dutch Oil prospector, who introduces him to important people. Espedito is hired by the Dutchman and a corrupt local governor, but then the Dutchman changes sides …
È l'amor che mi rovina
Screenplay
event1951 star_border 7
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A naive clerk finds himself involved in the theft of a ring containing a dangerous liquid.
Habibi, amor mío
Writer
event1981 star_border 3.5
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Young Stefano falls in love with a Spanish girl, Habibi. The two become engaged, but after a happy period, Stefano will discover the girl's betrayals. This will lead the protagonists to drift apart and seek new paths; this will be an opportunity for them to reflect on themselves and the loss of values in life.
Nobody's Perfect
Story
event1981 star_border 5.5
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Guerrino, a prematurely widowed businessman, falls in love with Chantal, a former paratrooper in the German army who changed sex a few years earlier.
I See Naked
Story
event1969 star_border 6.4
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Seven sketches including the title sketch "I See Naked" in which a fashion editor begins to see naked women everywhere he goes.
All Ladies Do It
Screenplay
event1992 star_border 5
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After five years of marriage, Diana discovers the joys of adultery, claiming that she can save her failing relationship through betrayal.
Languidi baci... perfide carezze
Writer
event1976
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Italian romance starring Giovanna Ralli, Gigi Proietti and Cristiano Censi
State buoni se potete
Screenplay
event1983 star_border 6.7
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Around the year 1500, the Italian priest Don Filippo Neri helps street kids and orphans in his poor little chapel.
Giovani e belli
Writer
event1996 star_border 3.3
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Luca, a young man from a rich family, travels to Rome. Here he encounters Gino, who makes a living with petty theft.
Dirty Weekend
Writer
event1973 star_border 5.3
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A man and his mistress have just taken off for a weekend romp when they're kidnapped by a trio of bank robbers. They wind up becoming media "stars" as police and reporters follow them. They all wind up at the beat-up shack of a cranky old codger, with the police surrounding them and the robbers threatening to kill everybody.
Paprika
Screenplay
event1991 star_border 7.1
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Mimma starts working in Madame Colette’s brothel to help her boyfriend financially. There she is rechristened “Paprika,” and falls in love with her first client, naval officer Franco. Despite this attraction, she begins her climb through the sex trade, residing in Italy’s most illustrious brothels.
...e la vita continua
Screenplay (8 ep.)
event1984
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Family drama that spans from the end of WWII to the eighties.
You Jane, Me Tarzan
Teleplay (4 ep.)
event1989
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The drama four-episode musical marked the return to Rai militancy after years of Fininvest for Carmen Russo and the comic duo Franco and Ciccio . The program also included pure variety segments, animated inserts and ballets.
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