Suso Cecchi D'Amico (21 July 1914 – 31 July 2010) was an Italian
screenwriter
A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based.
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and actress. She won the 1980
David di Donatello Award
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Franco Zeffirelli
Gian Franco Corsi Zeffirelli (12 February 1923 – 15 June 2019), was an Italian stage and film director, producer, production designer and politician. He was one of the most significant opera and theatre directors of the post-World War II era, ...
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The Taming of the Shrew
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Brother Sun, Sister Moon
''Brother Sun, Sister Moon'' ( it, Fratello Sole, Sorella Luna) is a 1972 film directed by Franco Zeffirelli and starring Graham Faulkner and Judi Bowker. The film is an examination of the life of Saint Francis of Assisi.
Plot
Francesco, the sp ...
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Luchino Visconti
Luchino Visconti di Modrone, Count of Lonate Pozzolo (; 2 November 1906 – 17 March 1976) was an Italian filmmaker, stage director, and screenwriter. A major figure of Italian art and culture in the mid-20th century, Visconti was one of the fat ...
Rocco and His Brothers
''Rocco and His Brothers'' ( it, Rocco e i suoi fratelli) is a 1960 drama film directed by Luchino Visconti and starring Alain Delon, Annie Girardot, Renato Salvatori, Katina Paxinou, Roger Hanin, Paolo Stoppa, and Claudia Cardinale in one of h ...
The Leopard
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Conversation Piece
A conversation piece refers to a group portrait in a domestic or landscape setting depicting persons chatting or otherwise socializing with each other.Vittorio de Sica
Vittorio De Sica ( , ; 7 July 1901 – 13 November 1974) was an Italian film director and actor, a leading figure in the neorealist movement.
Four of the films he directed won Academy Awards: ''Sciuscià'' and ''Bicycle Thieves'' (honorary) ...
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Bicycle Thieves
''Bicycle Thieves'' ( it, Ladri di biciclette; sometimes known in the United States as ''The Bicycle Thief'') is a 1948 Italian neorealist drama film directed by Vittorio De Sica. It follows the story of a poor father searching in post- World ...
Michelangelo Antonioni
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Le Amiche
''Le Amiche'' (, lit. "The girlfriends") is a 1955 Italian drama film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni and starring Eleonora Rossi Drago, Gabriele Ferzetti, Franco Fabrizi, and Valentina Cortese. Based on Cesare Pavese's 1949 novella ''Tra do ...
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Mario Monicelli
Mario Alberto Ettore Monicelli (; 16 May 1915 – 29 November 2010) was an Italian film director and screenwriter and one of the masters of the ''Commedia all'Italiana'' (Comedy Italian style). He was nominated six times for an Oscar, and was awa ...
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Big Deal on Madonna Street
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Risate di gioia
''The Passionate Thief'' ( it, Risate di gioia) is a 1960 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Monicelli, starring Anna Magnani and Totò.
Plot
Two friends (Toto and Magnani) live by their wits working as comedians and cabaret at Cinecittà, ...
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Casanova 70
''Casanova 70'' is a 1965 Italian comedy film produced by Carlo Ponti, directed by Mario Monicelli and starring Marcello Mastroianni, Virna Lisi, Enrico Maria Salerno and Michèle Mercier.
Plot
NATO officer Andrea Rossi-Colombotti is a ladies ...
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Alessandro Blasetti
Alessandro Blasetti (3 July 1900 – 1 February 1987) was an Italian film director and screenwriter who influenced Italian neorealism with the film ''Quattro passi fra le nuvole''. Blasetti was one of the leading figures in Italian cinema during ...
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Lucky to Be a Woman
''Lucky to Be a Woman'' ( it, La fortuna di essere donna and also known as ''What a Woman!'') is a 1956 Italian comedy film directed by Alessandro Blasetti and starring Sophia Loren, Charles Boyer and Marcello Mastroianni.
Plot
A photographe ...
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Luigi Zampa
Luigi Zampa (2 January 1905 – 16 August 1991) was an Italian film director.
Biography
Son of a worker, Zampa studied filmmaking from 1932 to 1937 at the Italian film school Centro sperimentale di cinematografia in Rome.
He directed several ...
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L'onorevole Angelina
''Angelina'' ( it, L'onorevole Angelina) is a 1947 film directed by Luigi Zampa. The star of the film is Anna Magnani, who won ''Volpi Cup'' prize for "Best Actress" at the Venice Film Festival. Zampa was nominated for a ''Golden Lion''. The film ...
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To Live in Peace
''To Live in Peace'' (Italian: ''Vivere in pace'') is a 1947 Italian neorealist comedy-drama war film directed by Luigi Zampa and starring Aldo Fabrizi, John Kitzmiller and Ave Ninchi.Gundle p.138
It was shot at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome a ...
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Francesco Rosi
Francesco Rosi (; 15 November 1922 – 10 January 2015) was an Italian film director. His film '' The Mattei Affair'' won the Palme d'Or at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival. Rosi's films, especially those of the 1960s and 1970s, often appeared to ha ...
Luigi Comencini
Luigi Comencini (; 8 June 1916 – 6 April 2007) ''The Guardian'' was an Italian
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The Window to Luna Park
''The Window to Luna Park'' ( it, La finestra sul Luna Park) is a 1957 Italian drama film directed by Luigi Comencini. It was entered into the 7th Berlin International Film Festival.
Cast
* Giulia Rubini
Giulia Rubini (born 2 June 1935) is a ...
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Alberto Lattuada
Alberto Lattuada (; 13 November 1914 – 3 July 2005) was an Italian film director.
Career
Lattuada was born in Vaprio d'Adda, the son of composer Felice Lattuada. He was initially interested in literature, becoming, while still a student, a mem ...
Nino Rota
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's opera '' I due timidi'' and collaborated on the script of
William Wyler
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Roman Holiday
''Roman Holiday'' is a 1953 American romantic comedy film directed and produced by William Wyler. It stars Audrey Hepburn as a princess out to see Rome on her own and Gregory Peck as a reporter. Hepburn won an Academy Award for Best Actress f ...
''. She was a member of the jury at the
1982 Cannes Film Festival
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The festival opened with the 1916 film ''Intolerance'', directed b ...
. She was awarded the
Golden Lion
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for lifetime achievement at the 1994
Venice film festival
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.
Life
Suso Cecchi D'Amico was born in Rome as Giovanna Cecchi and was the daughter of writer
Emilio Cecchi
Emilio Cecchi (14 July 1884 – 5 September 1966) was an Italian literary critic, art critic and screenwriter. One English language source describes him as "an 'official' - although radically anti-academic - intellectual".
He was made artistic ...
. In 1938, she married the
musicologist
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Fedele D'Amico (nickname: Lele), son of theatre critic
Silvio D'Amico
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. They had three children who have themselves made significant contributions to Italian culture: Masolino, Silvia, and Catherine. Suso Cecchi D'Amico died in Rome ten days past her 96th birthday. She worked as a
translator
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of literary works but was asked to read a screenplay, in order to give feedback. Later, she was asked to write one herself and her career as a screenwriter was launched.
Filmography
Screenwriter
* 1946 : ''
Mio figlio professore
''Professor, My Son'' ( it, Mio figlio professore, also known as ''My Son, the Professor'') is a 1946 Italian comedy-drama film written and directed by Renato Castellani.
Plot
The janitor of a Roman school (Aldo Fabrizi) seeks social redempti ...
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* 1946 : ''
Rome, Open City
''Rome, Open City'' ( it, Roma città aperta, also released as ''Open City'') is a 1945 Italian neorealist war drama film directed by Roberto Rossellini and co-written by Sergio Amidei, Celeste Negarville and Federico Fellini. Set in Rome in ...
To Live in Peace
''To Live in Peace'' (Italian: ''Vivere in pace'') is a 1947 Italian neorealist comedy-drama war film directed by Luigi Zampa and starring Aldo Fabrizi, John Kitzmiller and Ave Ninchi.Gundle p.138
It was shot at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome a ...
''
* 1947 : ''
L'onorevole Angelina
''Angelina'' ( it, L'onorevole Angelina) is a 1947 film directed by Luigi Zampa. The star of the film is Anna Magnani, who won ''Volpi Cup'' prize for "Best Actress" at the Venice Film Festival. Zampa was nominated for a ''Golden Lion''. The film ...
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* 1948 : ''
It's Forever Springtime
''It's Forever Springtime'' (Italian: ''È primavera...'') is a 1950 Italy, Italian drama film directed by Renato Castellani.
Plot
Beppe Agosti, Florentine, baker's boy and orphan, is very popular with girls, especially the servants, for his ea ...
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* 1948 : ''
Bicycle Thieves
''Bicycle Thieves'' ( it, Ladri di biciclette; sometimes known in the United States as ''The Bicycle Thief'') is a 1948 Italian neorealist drama film directed by Vittorio De Sica. It follows the story of a poor father searching in post- World ...
The Walls of Malapaga
''The Walls of Malapaga'' ( it, Le mura di Malapaga, french: Au-delà des grilles (''Beyond the Gates'')), is a 1949 French-Italian drama film directed by René Clément and starring Jean Gabin, Isa Miranda and Andrea Checchi. It was a co-produc ...
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* 1950 : ''
His Last Twelve Hours
''His Last Twelve Hours'' (French: ''Pour l'amour du ciel'', Italian: ''È più facile che un cammello...'') is a 1951 French-Italian drama film directed by Luigi Zampa and starring Jean Gabin, Mariella Lotti and Elli Parvo. The film's sets w ...
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* 1950 : ''
Pact with the Devil
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* 1950 : ''
Father's Dilemma
''Father's Dilemma'' ( it, Prima comunione) is a 1950 Italian comedy film directed by Alessandro Blasetti. It won an award at the Venice Film Festival.
Details
* The voice of the narrator is Alberto Sordi. When Sordi worked on the film he had ju ...
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* 1950 : ''
Romanzo d'amore
''Romanzo d'amore'' is a 1950 Italian historical melodrama film directed by Duilio Coletti.
Cast
* Rossano Brazzi as Enrico Toselli
* Danielle Darrieux as Archduchess Louise of Austria
* Olinto Cristina
* Jone Morino
* Vira Silenti
* Elena ...
The City Stands Trial
''The City Stands Trial'' ( it, Processo alla città) is a 1952 Italian drama film directed by Luigi Zampa and starring Amedeo Nazzari, is based on a revisiting of the Cuocolo murders and the struggle for control of Naples by the Camorra in th ...
Hello Elephant
''Hello Elephant'' ( it, Buongiorno, elefante!) is a 1952 Italian comedy film directed by Gianni Franciolini.
Cast
* Vittorio De Sica: Carlo Caretti
* María Mercader: Maria Caretti
* Sabu: Sultan of Nagore
* Nando Bruno
Nando Bruno (6 O ...
Eager to Live
''Eager to Live'' ( it, Febbre di vivere) is a 1953 Italian drama film directed by Claudio Gora. In 2008 the film was selected to enter the list of the 100 Italian films to be saved.
Plot
Massimo lives in luxury, but in reality he is overwhe ...
Of Life and Love
''Of Life and Love'' ( it, Questa è la vita) is a 1954 Italian comedy film directed by Aldo Fabrizi, Giorgio Pastina, Mario Soldati and Luigi Zampa.
Plot
The film tells four episodes from stories written by Luigi Pirandello (from the work: '' ...
Graziella
''Graziella'' is an 1852 novel by the French author Alphonse de Lamartine. It tells of a young French man who falls for a fisherman's granddaughter – the eponymous Graziella – during a trip to Naples, Italy; they are separated when ...
Too Bad She's Bad
''Too Bad She's Bad'' ( it, Peccato che sia una canaglia) is a 1955 Italian comedy directed by Alessandro Blasetti. It stars Sophia Loren and is based on Alberto Moravia's story "Fanatico", from his ''Racconti Romani''.
It was shot at the Cine ...
Le amiche
''Le Amiche'' (, lit. "The girlfriends") is a 1955 Italian drama film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni and starring Eleonora Rossi Drago, Gabriele Ferzetti, Franco Fabrizi, and Valentina Cortese. Based on Cesare Pavese's 1949 novella ''Tra do ...
''
* 1956 : ''
Kean
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* Kean (name)
* Kean (play), ''Kean'' (play), 1838 play by Alexandre Dumas père based on the life of the actor Edmund Kean, and its adaptations:
** Kean (1921 film), ''Kean'' (1921 film), a German silent historical film
** Kean ...
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* 1956 : ''
The Window to Luna Park
''The Window to Luna Park'' ( it, La finestra sul Luna Park) is a 1957 Italian drama film directed by Luigi Comencini. It was entered into the 7th Berlin International Film Festival.
Cast
* Giulia Rubini
Giulia Rubini (born 2 June 1935) is a ...
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* 1956 : ''
Lucky to Be a Woman
''Lucky to Be a Woman'' ( it, La fortuna di essere donna and also known as ''What a Woman!'') is a 1956 Italian comedy film directed by Alessandro Blasetti and starring Sophia Loren, Charles Boyer and Marcello Mastroianni.
Plot
A photographe ...
White Nights
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* White night (astronomy), a night in which it never gets completely dark, at high latitudes outside the Arctic and Antarctic Circles
* White Night festivals, all-night arts festivals held in ...
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* 1958 : ''
Big Deal on Madonna Street
''Big Deal on Madonna Street'' ( it, I soliti ignoti; released in the UK as ''Persons Unknown'') is a 1958 Italian comedy caper film directed by Mario Monicelli and considered to be among the masterpieces of Italian cinema. Its original Italian t ...
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* 1958 : ''
La sfida
''La sfida'' ("the challenge") is a 1958 Italian film by Francesco Rosi. It stars José Suárez as a gang leader who challenges a local Camorra boss for supremacy. It won the Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival.
The film is based on the real-l ...
Violent Summer
''Estate violenta'' (U.S. title: ''Violent Summer'') is a 1961 Italian award-winning black-and-white drama film directed by Valerio Zurlini, depicting a love affair between a prominent Fascist's young draft-dodging son, portrayed by Jean-Louis T ...
It Started in Naples
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* 1961 : ''
The Wastrel
''The Wastrel'' ( it, Il relitto) is a 1961 Italian-Cypriot drama film directed by Michael Cacoyannis and starring Ellie Lambeti. It was entered into the 1961 Cannes Film Festival.
Cast
* Ellie Lambeti as Mrs. Bell
* Van Heflin as Duncan Bell
* ...
Three Fables of Love
''Three Fables of Love'' (french: Les Quatre Vérités, it, Le quattro verità, es, Las cuatro verdades) is a 1962 internationally co-produced comedy film starring Leslie Caron, Anna Karina and Monica Vitti. It was shown as part of a retrospe ...
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* 1964 : ''
Time of Indifference
''Time of Indifference'' ( it, Gli indifferenti) is a 1964 Italian film directed by Francesco Maselli and based on the novel '' Gli indifferenti'' by Alberto Moravia. It stars Claudia Cardinale.
Plot
A penniless countess falls in love wit ...
Casanova 70
''Casanova 70'' is a 1965 Italian comedy film produced by Carlo Ponti, directed by Mario Monicelli and starring Marcello Mastroianni, Virna Lisi, Enrico Maria Salerno and Michèle Mercier.
Plot
NATO officer Andrea Rossi-Colombotti is a ladies ...
Sex Quartet
''Sex Quartet'' (US title: ''The Queens'', it, Le fate, 'the fairies') is a 1966 Italian-French comedy film directed by Mario Monicelli, Mauro Bolognini, Antonio Pietrangeli and Luciano Salce. It starred Capucine, Claudia Cardinale, Monica Vitti ...
The Taming of the Shrew
''The Taming of the Shrew'' is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1590 and 1592. The play begins with a framing device, often referred to as the induction, in which a mischievous nobleman tricks a drunken ...
Infanzia, vocazione e prime esperienze di Giacomo Casanova, veneziano
''Giacomo Casanova: Childhood and Adolescence'' ( it, Infanzia, vocazione e prime esperienze di Giacomo Casanova, veneziano, lit=Childhood, Vocation, and First Experience of Giacomo Casanova, Venetian), internationally released as ''Casanova: His ...
''
* 1970 : ''
Metello
''Metello'' is a 1970 Italian drama film directed by Mauro Bolognini. It was entered into the 1970 Cannes Film Festival. It starred Massimo Ranieri as the title character.
Plot
During the end of the 19th century, young Metello decides to start ...
Brother Sun, Sister Moon
''Brother Sun, Sister Moon'' ( it, Fratello Sole, Sorella Luna) is a 1972 film directed by Franco Zeffirelli and starring Graham Faulkner and Judi Bowker. The film is an examination of the life of Saint Francis of Assisi.
Plot
Francesco, the sp ...
Amore e ginnastica
''Amore e ginnastica'' (''Love And Gymnastics'') is a 1973 comedy film directed by Luigi Filippo D'Amico. It is based on a novel with the same name written by Edmondo De Amicis.
Cast
*Lino Capolicchio: Simone Celzani
*Senta Berger: Maria Pedani ...
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* 1974 : ''
Amore amaro
''Amore amaro'' (internationally released as ''Bitter Love'' and ''Renata'') is a List of Italian films of 1974, 1974 Cinema of Italy, Italian drama film directed by Florestano Vancini. For this film Lisa Gastoni was awarded with a Nastro d'Argent ...
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* 1974 : ''
Conversation piece
A conversation piece refers to a group portrait in a domestic or landscape setting depicting persons chatting or otherwise socializing with each other.Prete, fai un miracolo''
* 1976 : ''
Tell Me You Do Everything for Me
''Tell Me You Do Everything for Me'' (Italian: ''Dimmi che fai tutto per me'') is a 1976 Italian comedy film directed by Pasquale Festa Campanile and starring Johnny Dorelli, Pamela Villoresi and Jacques Dufilho.Chiti, Poppi & Pecorari p.242
Cast
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* 1976 : ''
L'innocente
''The Innocent'' ( it, L'innocente) was the last film made by Italian director Luchino Visconti. Released in 1976, the film is based on the novel '' The Intruder'' by Gabriele d'Annunzio. It was distributed in the U.S. by Analysis Film Releasing ...
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* 1976 : ''
Caro Michele
''Caro Michele'' is a 1976 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Monicelli. It was entered into the 26th Berlin International Film Festival, where Monicelli won the Silver Bear for Best Director.
Cast
* Mariangela Melato as Mara Castorelli
...
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* 1977 : ''
Jesus of Nazareth
Jesus, likely from he, יֵשׁוּעַ, translit=Yēšūaʿ, label=Hebrew/Aramaic ( AD 30 or 33), also referred to as Jesus Christ or Jesus of Nazareth (among other names and titles), was a first-century Jewish preacher and religious ...
The Two Lives of Mattia Pascal
''The Two Lives of Mattia Pascal'' ( it, Le due vite di Mattia Pascal) is a 1985 Italian drama film directed by Mario Monicelli. It was adapted from the novel '' Il fu Mattia Pascal'' by Luigi Pirandello. It was entered into the 1985 Cannes Fil ...
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* 1985 : ''
Cuore
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* 1986 : ''
Caravaggio
Michelangelo Merisi (Michele Angelo Merigi or Amerighi) da Caravaggio, known as simply Caravaggio (, , ; 29 September 1571 – 18 July 1610), was an Italian painter active in Rome for most of his artistic life. During the final four years of hi ...
Big Deal After 20 Years
''Big Deal After 20 Years'' ( it, I soliti ignoti vent'anni dopo) is a 1985 Italian comedy film directed by Amanzio Todini. It is the sequel to ''Big Deal on Madonna Street'' and ''Audace colpo dei soliti ignoti''.
Plot
After several years spen ...
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* 1987 : ''
La storia
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Stradivari
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* 1989 : ''
La Moglie ingenua e il marito malato
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Arts and entertainment Music
* La (musical note), or A, the sixth note
* "L.A.", a song by Elliott Smith on ''Figur ...
Rossini! Rossini!
''Rossini! Rossini!'' is a 1991 Italian biographical film written and directed by Mario Monicelli. It depicts real life events of composer Gioachino Rossini. Monicelli replaced Robert Altman, who was experiencing differences with the producers. ...
La Stanza dello scirocco
''The Room of the Scirocco'' ( it, La stanza dello scirocco) is a 1998 Italian romantic comedy film written and directed by Maurizio Sciarra. It is based on the novel with the same name by Domenico Campana. The film won two Nastro d'Argento Awar ...