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I Complessi
''I complessi'' is a 1965 commedia all'italiana anthology film consisting of three episodes. Cast ;''Una giornata decisiva'' *Nino Manfredi: Quirino Raganelli *Ilaria Occhini: Gabriella * Riccardo Garrone: Alvaro Morandini *Umberto D'Orsi: Ernesto Segment directed by Dino Risi, written by Marcello Fondato, Ruggero Maccari and Dino Risi. ;''Il complesso della schiava nubiana'' *Ugo Tognazzi: prof. Gildo Beozi *Claudie Lange: Erminia *Paola Borboni: Baracchi-Croce, Beozi's assistant *Nanda Primavera: Beozi's Mother-in-law *Claudio Gora: Antiquary *Carletto Sposito: Massimo Tabusso Segment directed by Franco Rossi, written by Leonardo Benvenuti, Piero De Bernardi, Ettore Scola, Age & Scarpelli. ;''Guglielmo il dentone'' *Alberto Sordi: Guglielmo Bertone *Franco Fabrizi: Francesco Martello *Romolo Valli: Father Baldini *Armando Trovajoli: Himself *Lelio Luttazzi: Himself *Nanni Loy: Himself *Vincenzo Talarico: Himself * Alessandro Cutolo: Himself *Edy Campagnoli: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dino Risi
Dino Risi (23 December 1916 – 7 June 2008) was an Italian film director. With Mario Monicelli, Luigi Comencini, Nanni Loy and Ettore Scola, he was one of the masters of ''commedia all'italiana''. Biography Risi was born in Milan. He had an older brother, Fernando, a cinematographer, and a younger brother, Nelo (1920–2015), a director and writer. At the age of twelve, Risi became an orphan and was looked after by relatives and friends of his family.Italian director Dino Risi dies BBC.co.uk; accessed 19 November 2015. He studied medicine but refused to become a , as his parents wished Risi started his career in [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Commedia All'italiana
Commedia all'italiana (, pl. Commedie all'italiana, "Comedy in the Italian way") or Italian-style comedy is an Italian film genre born in Italy in the 1950s and developed in the 1960s and 1970s. It is widely considered to have started with Mario Monicelli's ''Big Deal on Madonna Street'' in 1958, and derives its name from the title of Pietro Germi's ''Divorce Italian Style'' (1961). According to most of the critics, '' La Terrazza'' (1980) by Ettore Scola is the last work considered part of the Commedia all'italiana. Rather than a specific genre, the term indicates a period (approximately from the late 1950s to the early 1970s) in which the Italian film industry was producing many successful comedies, with some common traits like satire of manners, farcical and grotesque overtones, a strong focus on "spicy" social issues of the period (like sexual matters, divorce, contraception, marriage of the clergy, the economic rise of the country and its various consequences, the trad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lelio Luttazzi
Lelio Luttazzi (27 April 1923 – 8 July 2010) was an Italian composer, musician, actor, singer, conductor, writer, and television and radio presenter. Born in Trieste, Luttazzi began playing the piano at Radio Trieste and composing his first songs when he was student in law at the University of Trieste during the Second World War. After the war, he had from SIAE a gain of 350,000 lire, a considerable sum for the time, so he decided to become a full-time composer and in 1948 he moved to Milan where he began working with fellow Teddy Reno at the record company CGD. He was among the first composers to place jazz structures in the Italian songs. A multifaceted artist, he worked in revues and cinema as actor and composer of soundtracks; he was also a successful television and radio presenter, and probably the peak of his popularity was the radio program ''Hit parade'', one of the longest radio programs broadcast in Italy. In the early 1970s Luttazzi was involved together with Wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romolo Valli
Romolo Valli (7 February 1925 – 1 February 1980) was an Italian actor. Valli was born in Reggio Emilia. He was one of the best known Italian actors from the 1950s to his death. He worked for both the stage and the silver screen. Among the directors he collaborated with were Vittorio De Sica, Sergio Leone, Roman Polanski, Roger Vadim, and Luchino Visconti, who cast Valli in three feature films (''Il Gattopardo'', '' Morte a Venezia'', '' Gruppo di famiglia in un interno'') and the episode ''Il lavoro'' of '' Boccaccio '70''. Valli died in a car accident, less than one week before his 55th birthday. Theatre * Così è (se vi pare) (1974) Filmography *'' Policarpo ufficiale di scrittura'' (1959) - Commendator Egidio Marzi Laurenzi *''The Great War'' (1959) - Tenente Gallina *'' Jovanka e le altre'' (1960) - Mirko *'' Call Girls of Rome'' (1960) - Il commissario *'' Il carro armato dell'8 settembre'' (1960) *'' La ragazza con la valigia'' (1961) - Don Pietro Introna *'' La v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franco Fabrizi
Franco Fabrizi (; 15 February 1916 – 18 October 1995) was an Italian actor. Life and career Son of a barber and a cinema cashier, Franco Fabrizi started his career as a model and an actor in fotoromanzi. Fabrizi also starred on several revues and stage works, then he debuted on the big screen with a supporting role in '' Chronicle of a Love'' (''Cronaca di un amore'') (1950), Michelangelo Antonioni's long film debut. The role that made him known was as Fausto in Federico Fellini's '' I vitelloni''; from then he was inextricably linked to the character of a full-time seducer, a young wastrel, a young not-so-young man who refuses to grow up, a character that he reprised, with different facets, in a great number of films. Past the 1950s, Fabrizi was mainly relegated to character roles in Italian, French and Spanish minor productions; he still appeared on several major works of Italian cinema, and one of his last great roles was in Luchino Visconti's '' Death in Venice''. In 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Age & Scarpelli
Age & Scarpelli () is the stage name used by the pair of Italian screenwriters Agenore Incrocci (1914–2005) and Furio Scarpelli (1919–2010). Together, they wrote the script for about a hundred movies, mainly satirical comedies. The duo started working together in '' Totò cerca casa'' of 1949, and ended their collaboration in the 1980s. They worked for many famous Italian directors, like Sergio Leone (''The Good, the Bad and the Ugly''), Mario Monicelli (including their major work, '' L'armata Brancaleone''), Dino Risi, Luigi Comencini, Pietro Germi and Ettore Scola and they wrote the dialogues of many Totò movies. In 1985, they decided to part ways, and subsequently worked separately for movies such as ''Boom'' for Age and ''Il Postino'' for Scarpelli. Age & Scarpelli are often considered the inventors of ''commedia all'italiana'' (Italian-style comedy). Selected filmography * '' Toto Looks for a House'' (1949) *'' 47 morto che parla'' (1950) * ''Toto Looks for a Wife'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlo Sposito
Carlo Sposito (1 May 1924 – 9 September 1984) was an Italian character actor, sometimes credited as Carletto Sposito. Born in Palermo, he was among the most active actors in the post-war Italian genre cinema. He was also pretty active on stage, radio and television. He died at 60 of myocardial infarction, in Rome. He was the brother of the playwright Faele. Selected filmography * ''For the Love of Mariastella'' (1946) - Rosalino * ''Difficult Years'' (1948) - Riccardo * ''Torna a Napoli'' (1949) - Vittorio * '' Flying Squadron'' (1949) - Allievo * ''Cintura di castità'' (1950) * '' Women Without Names'' (1950) - Ciulian the Albanian Ice-cream Maker * ''His Last Twelve Hours'' (1950) - Il duca Luca Sorino * ''Il monello della strada'' (1950) * '' The Crossroads'' (1951) - Il vice-commissario Sani * ''The Ungrateful Heart'' (1951) - Anselmo * ''The Young Caruso'' (1951) - Giovanni "Gianni" Palma * ''Paris Is Always Paris'' (1951) - Toto Mancuso * ''Una bruna indiavolata!'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claudio Gora
Claudio Gora, '' Emilio Giordana '' (27 July 1913 – 13 March 1998) was an Italian actor and film director. He was particularly prolific, making some 155 appearances in film and television over nearly 60 years (from 1939 to 1997). In the 1950s he did dabble with directing and screenwriting and directed the film Three Strangers in Rome in 1958 which was incidentally the first leading role by Claudia Cardinale. Some of his notable roles includes '' Adua e le compagne'', directed by Antonio Pietrangeli, '' Tutti a casa'' by Luigi Comencini, and Dino Risi's '' A Difficult Life'' and '' Il Sorpasso''. Selected filmography * ''Torna, caro ideal!'' (1939) - Francesco Paolo Tosti * ''Wealth Without a Future'' (1940) - Giovanni Di Cora * ' (1940) - Il fidanzato della segretaria * ''Il Bazar delle idee'' (1940) * '' Love Me, Alfredo!'' (1940) - Il compositore Giacomo Varni * '' Eternal Melodies'' (1940) - L'imperatore Giuseppe * ''Amore imperiale'' (1941) - Alessio Romowski * '' A Wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nanda Primavera
Nanda Primavera (23 August 1898 – 9 August 1995) was an Italian actress. She appeared in more than thirty films from 1936 to 1988. Filmography References External links * 1898 births 1995 deaths Italian film actresses {{Italy-film-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paola Borboni
Paola Borboni (1 January 1900 – 9 April 1995) was an Italian stage and film actress whose career spanned nine decades of cinema. Early life Borboni was born on 1 January 1900 in Parma, Italy. Career Borboni made her stage debut in 1916, beginning to take minor film roles soon afterwards. She entered film in 1916 in the silent picture ''Jacobo Ortis'' directed by Giuseppe Sterni, and made over 80 film appearances between then and 1990. Appearing in several silent films before 1921 she was absent from cinema for some 14 years during which time she made numerous stage appearances. She gained notoriety in 1925 when she appeared topless in a stage performance of Carlo Veneziani’s ''Alga Marina'' as a mermaid, exposing her breasts. She returned to the silver screen in 1936 in the Mario Mattoli film '' L' Uomo che sorride''. She went on to appear in films such as the Carlo Lizzani-directed film '' Ai margini della metropoli'' in 1952 in which she appeared alongside the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claudie Lange
Claudie Lange is a Belgian actress and model, mainly active in Italian cinema. Lange entered the film industry at 21, when she met Federico Fellini during a vacation in Rome; Fellini gave her a minor part in ''Juliet of the Spirits'' (1965), and after that she appeared in ''The Bible'' (1966), the Roger Moore spy thriller '' Crossplot'' (1969), and in a large number of Italian genre movies, including the cult giallo films ''Death Walks on High Heels'' (1971) and ''Death Walks at Midnight'' (1972). Filmography {{columnslist, * ''El castigo'' (1973) as Françoise * ''Death Walks at Midnight'' (1972) as Verushka Wuttenberg * ''My Horse, My Gun, Your Widow'' (1972) as Deborah Page * ''Death Walks on High Heels'' (1971) as Vanessa Matthews * ''Quickly - Spari e baci a colazione'' (1971) * ''Mazzabubù... quante corna stanno quaggiù?'' (1971) as Luisa - Bordiga's wife * ''El divorcio'' (1970) as Sandra * ''Love Me, Baby, Love Me!'' (1970) as Ghita * ''La pelle a scacchi (Il distacco) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Umberto D'Orsi
Umberto D'Orsi (30 July 1929 – 31 August 1976) was an Italian character actor and comedian. Born in Trieste, D'Orsi took a degree in law in 1953, but he was already active in theater from 1950, performing in small companies of prose and revue. From 1962 till his death, D'Orsi was a prolific supporting actor, appearing in as many as fifteen films a year. He died in Rome at 47 from kidney failure. Selected filmography * '' A Girl... and a Million'' (1962) * ''The Thursday'' (1963) * ''The Girl from Parma'' (1963) * '' The Hours of Love'' (1963) * '' Shivers in Summer'' (1963) * ''The Verona Trial'' (1963) * ''Countersex'' (1964) * ''Let's Talk About Women'' (1964) * '' Me, Me, Me... and the Others'' (1965) * ''I soldi'' (1965) * ''Hot Frustrations'' (1965) * ''I complessi'' (1965) * ''Rita the American Girl'' (1965) * '' Death Walks in Laredo'' (1966) * ''Blockhead'' (1966) * ''Golden Chameleon'' (1967) * '' The Black Sheep'' (1968) * ''The Two Crus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
