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Rodolfo Sonego
Rodolfo Sonego (27 February 1921 – 15 October 2000) was an Italian screenwriter. He wrote Commedia all'italiana films such as ''A Difficult Life'', '' Il vedovo'', and '' The Traffic Policeman''. Life and career Born in Cavarzano, Belluno, Sonego graduated at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Turin and started an activity as painter and illustrator. During the war he was a partisan, becoming leader of the Fratelli Bandiera Brigade. After the war Sonego, known for his great communication skills and for his ability in recounting his war experiences, entered the cinema industry as a consulent for several films dedicated to partisan movements during the war. Moved to Rome, he initially collaborated to the screenplays of a number of dramas, working with directors such as Giuseppe De Santis, Alberto Lattuada and Carlo Lizzani. In 1954 he met Alberto Sordi for the screenplay of the comedy film ''Il seduttore'' and from then he started a long collaboration with the actor, writing, so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Veneto
Veneto (, ; vec, Vèneto ) or Venetia is one of the 20 regions of Italy. Its population is about five million, ranking fourth in Italy. The region's capital is Venice while the biggest city is Verona. Veneto was part of the Roman Empire until the 5th century AD. Later, after a Feudalism, feudal period, it was part of the Republic of Venice until 1797. Venice ruled for centuries over one of the largest and richest maritime republics and trade empires in the world. After the Napoleonic Wars and the Congress of Vienna, the Republic was combined with Lombardy and annexed to the Austrian Empire as the Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia, until that was Italian unification, merged with the Kingdom of Italy in 1866, as a result of the Third Italian War of Independence. Besides Italian language, Italian, most inhabitants also speak Venetian language, Venetian. Since 1971, the Statute of Veneto has referred to the region's citizens as "the Venetian people". Article 1 defines Veneto as an " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shadows On The Grand Canal
''Shadows on the Grand Canal'' (Italian: ''Ombre sul Canal Grande'') is a 1951 Italian crime film directed by Glauco Pellegrini and starring Isa Pola, Antonio Centa and Carlo Hintermann. It was entered into the competition at the 12th Venice International Film Festival. Cast * Isa Pola as Daniela * Antonio Centa as Stefano * Carlo Hintermann Carlo Hintermann (2 April 1923 – 7 January 1988) was an Italian film, television and stage actor and voice actor. He was sometimes credited as Carlo Hinterman. Life and career Born in Milan into a family of ancient Teutonic origin, Hinterma ... as Commissioner * Gianni Cavalieri as Private eye * Elena Zareschi as Marta * Emilio Baldanello as Daniela's Father * Attilio Tosatto as Silvestro Pavani * Vanda Baldanello as Silvestro Pavani's Wife References Bibliography * Marco Scotini. ''Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti and the Cinematic Nature of Vision''. Charta, 2000. External links * 1951 films 1950s Italian-language films Fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Il Disco Volante
''Il disco volante'' is a 1964 Italian comic science fiction film with mockumentary elements directed by Tinto Brass and starring Alberto Sordi. The film features the renowned comedian in four distinct roles as a dim-witted Carabinieri '' brigadiere'', a cheesepairing accountant, a decadent count, and an alcoholic priest. Involving characters from different social strata, ''Il disco volante'' is effectively a satire of the Italian society, particularly the people of Brass's adopted home region Veneto. Plot The sergeant of the Carabinieri of a Venetian village is charged with carrying out investigations on the arrival of a UFO of extraterrestrial origin. During the investigation he finds himself questioning a group of people who claim to have actually seen the Martians. In truth, only Vittoria, a poor widowed peasant with numerous children, manages to get hold of a Martian, which she sells to her effeminate master. His mother, however, suppresses the Martian, accuses the peasant wom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Commandant (film)
''The Commandant'', also known as ''Il comandante'', is a 1963 Italian comedy-drama film directed by Paolo Heusch. Plot summary Colonel Antonio Cavalli (Toto), promoted to general, after many years spent fighting in the army and commanding Italian Army troops in the Great War and the Second World War, is sent into retirement. But he, accustomed to the command of everything and everyone, cannot get used to quiet family life. He decides to work in an office. When Antonio discovers that his wife (Andreina Pagnani) is secretly paying his salary, this depresses him even more. Eventually two crooks involve him in a real estate ripoff, using his reputation they get him to him sign off on several frauds and scams, which threaten to send him to jail and compromises his high honor as an Italian Army General. On the brink of prison, the general attempts suicide, but once again his wife gets him out of the mess ... Cast * Totò: Gen. Antonio Cavalli * Andreina Pagnani: Francesca Cavalli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
To Bed Or Not To Bed
''To Bed or Not to Bed'' ( it, Il diavolo, also known as ''The Devil'') is a 1963 black-and-white Italian film directed by Gian Luigi Polidoro. It tells the story of an Italian merchant and his experiences during a visit to Sweden. Cast * Alberto Sordi - Amedeo Ferretti * Gunilla Elm-Tornkvist - Corinne * Anne-Charlotte Sjöberg - Karina * Barbro Wastenson - Barbro * Monica Wastenson - Monica * Ulla Smidje - The Minister's Wife * Ulf Palme - The Minister * Lauritz Falk - Mr. Falkman Awards ;Wins * Berlin Film Festival: Golden Bear * Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy (Alberto Sordi Alberto Sordi (15 June 1920 – 24 February 2003) was an Italian actor, voice actor, singer, comedian, director and screenwriter. Early life Born in Rome to a schoolteacher and a musician and the last of five children, Sordi was named in hon ...) References External links * 1963 films Italian black-and-white films 1960s Italian-language fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Italian Brigands
''I briganti italiani'' (internationally released as ''The Italian Brigands'' and ''Seduction of the South'') is a 1962 Italian comedy-drama film directed by Mario Camerini. It was shot in Cerreto Sannita.''Una passeggiata nella storia'', Di Lauro, 2003 Plot During the Italian unification the revolutionist Santo Carbone abducts Colonel Breviglieri of the Piedmontese army. Cast * Vittorio Gassman: 'O Caporale * Ernest Borgnine: Sante Carbone * Rosanna Schiaffino: Mariantonia * Katy Jurado: Assunta Carbone * Bernard Blier: Colonel Breviglieri * Micheline Presle: La Marchesa * Akim Tamiroff: 'O Zingaro * Philippe Leroy: 'O Zelluso * Mario Feliciani: Don Ramiro * Carlo Taranto: 'O Scarrafone * Carlo Pisacane: Filuccio * Guido Celano: Muso * Carlo Giuffrè Carlo Giuffrè (3 December 1928 – 1 November 2018) was an Italian stage, film and television actor and a stage director. He appeared in more than 90 films between 1942 and 2002. Biography Giuffrè was born in Naples, Ita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crimen (film)
''Crimen'' (also known as ...And Suddenly It's Murder! and Killing in Monte Carlo) is a 1960 Italian whodunit- comedy movie by Mario Camerini. The movie had two remakes: the first, ''Io non vedo, tu non parli, lui non sente'', was directed by the same Camerini in 1971 and starred Gastone Moschin, Enrico Montesano and Alighiero Noschese, the second, '' Once Upon a Crime'', was filmed in 1992 by Eugene Levy and has John Candy and James Belushi in the main roles. It was also remade in Hindi titled 36 China Town. Plot Five people, all united by the fact of being on a train to Monte Carlo, will find themselves being involved in the murder of an elderly millionaire of Dutch origin, a regular guest of the glamorous Riviera location. The bride and groom Remo and Marina, hairdressers, are attracted by the lure of fortune in gambling, with which they intend to start their own business, the Commander Alberto Franzetti, after a failed attempt to "detoxify" from the demon of gambling, is b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Moralist
''The Moralist'' (Italian: ''Il moralista'') is a 1959 Italian comedy film directed by Giorgio Bianchi. Starring Alberto Sordi and Vittorio de Sica, it satirises both the upholders of traditional sexual morality and the exploiters selling sex in a willing market. Plot In Rome in 1959, Agostino is the ferocious new Secretary-General of the Italian branch of the worldwide International Organization for Public Morality. A teetotal bachelor, he attacks with vigour public manifestations of sexual immorality. Neither bribes nor female charms deflect him from his crusade against lewdness in films and night clubs. So devoted is he that the aristocratic President of the Organisation even considers he might be a husband for his so far unmarried 29-year-old daughter. But both President and Secretary-General also have private lives. After Agostino denounces a night club to the police and it is closed, the mistress of the owner befriends the widowed President and introduces him to an exclus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Il Marito
''Il marito'' ( ''The Husband'') is a 1957 Italian-Spanish comedy film directed by Nanni Loy and Gianni Puccini, at their second and last collaboration after '' Parola di ladro''. Alberto Sordi, who was author of the story together with Rodolfo Sonego, submitted the script to Angelo Rizzoli, that was not at all enthusiastic about the subject. Later, he met a Spanish producer, married with eleven children, who recognized himself in the story, so the film, which was initially set in uptown Rome, was shot in Madrid. In Spain the film was released with the title ''El Marido''. Plot Alberto has an unbearable wife who treats him like a nerd and that forces him to satisfy every whim of her. But Alberto decides to get respect and to prove his masculinity, initially destroying the cello's wife, the object that she loved, and after betraying her with a young woman. When the wife deliberately shatters an important deal with a rich and Alberto old widow, her husband is about to kill her in de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Count Max (1957 Film)
''Count Max'' (Italian:''Il conte Max'') is a 1957 Italian-Spanish comedy film directed by Giorgio Bianchi and starring Alberto Sordi, Vittorio De Sica and Anne Vernon. It is a remake of the 1937 film ''Il signor Max'' in which De Sica had played the title role. This film was itself remade in 1991. A newspaper vendor masquerades as a count, falling in with a baroness and her wealthy, aristocratic friends. He believes he is love with her, but comes to realize he has more in common with her maid. The film's art direction was by Flavio Mogherini. Plot Alberto Boccetti, Roman newsagent in Via Veneto, is mistaken for Count Max Orsini Varaldo, a penniless nobleman and scrounger, while on vacation in Cortina (where he went instead of going on vacation to the village of Capracotta as desired by his uncle). Here he meets Baroness Elena di Villombrosa, who invites him to join the company of nobles, headed to Seville, but also meets their housekeeper Lauretta. In Seville, after contrac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toto And Carolina
Toto may refer to: Arts and entertainment Fictional characters Pets * Toto (''Oz''), a dog in the novel and film ''The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'' * Toto, in Japanese ''The Cat Returns'' Characters of agency * a character in '' Le château à Toto'' (Toto’s castle), 1868 opéra bouffe * the title character of ''Princess Toto'', 1876 comic opera by W. S. Gilbert and Frederic Clay * the title character of '' Toto of Arabia'', 1965 Italian-Spanish adventure-comedy film * Toto, the main character of ''Toto Forever'', 2010 short film * Toto, a Gamera character from ''Gamera the Brave'' * Toto, the main character in ''Stories Toto Told Me'' and ''In His Own Image'' by Frederick Rolfe Other uses in arts and entertainment * ''Toto'' (1933 film), a 1933 French film directed by Jacques Tourneur * Toto (band) ** ''Toto'' (album), their debut album * '' Toto!: The Wonderful Adventure'', Japanese manga series Gaming and gambling * Football pools, called "toto" in several languages * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Hero Of Our Times
''A Hero of Our Times'' ( it, Un eroe dei nostri tempi) is a 1955 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Monicelli and starring Alberto Sordi. Plot Alberto is an employee who is the Italian average of society of the Fifties. Alberto is a go-getter, attached only to his work, and believes that everyone meets him wants to bring Alberto bad luck. Alberto refuses every contact with other people, but soon finds himself caught in misunderstandings and so the people, to take revenge on him and his meanness, force him to change his identity. Cast * Alberto Sordi as Alberto Menichetti * Franca Valeri as Vedova De Ritis * Giovanna Ralli as Marcella * Tina Pica as Clotilde * Mario Carotenuto as Gustavo * Leopoldo Trieste as Aurelio * Alberto Lattuada as * Bud Spencer as Fernando (as Carlo Pedersoli) * Pina Bottin as Secretary * Lina Bonivento as Aunt Giovanna * Mino Doro as Prof. Bracci * Giulio Calì Giulio Calì (26 March 1895 – 20 January 1967) was an Italian film actor. He a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
