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Dino Risi

Dino Risi

Director · Born 1916-12-23 · Milan, Italy

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Biography

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. He was born in Milan. Risi started his career in cinema as an assistant director to cinema figures such as Mario Soldati and Alberto Lattuada. Later he began directing his own films and was credited with giving early opportunities to future acting stars such as Sophia Loren and Vittorio Gassman. His 1966 film Treasure of San Gennaro was entered into the 5th Moscow International Film Festival where it won a Silver Prize. His biggest hits were Poor, But Handsome (Poveri ma belli), followed by two sequels, which he also directed; A Difficult Life (Una vita difficile); The Easy Life (Il sorpasso); Opiate '67 or, in a cut version, 15 From Rome (I Mostri); and Scent Of A Woman (Profumo di Donna), which was remade by Martin Brest starring Al Pacino in 1992. In 2002, he was awarded the Golden Lion – Honorary Award (Leone d'oro alla carriera) at the Venice Film Festival for his life-time work. Two of his films, Il giovedì and Il commissario Lo Gatto, were shown in a retrospective section on Italian …

Directed

  1. Il Sorpasso (1962) — Director
  2. Scent of a Woman (1974) — Director
  3. The New Monsters (1977) — Director
  4. The Monsters (1963) — Director
  5. The Treasure of San Gennaro (1966) — Director
  6. Scandal in Sorrento (1955) — Director
  7. The Widower (1959) — Director
  8. A Difficult Life (1961) — Director
  9. In the Name of the Italian People (1971) — Director
  10. Il commissario Lo Gatto (1986) — Director
  11. Complexes (1965) — Director
  12. The Sign of Venus (1955) — Director
  13. Poor But Beautiful (1957) — Director
  14. Lost Soul (1977) — Director
  15. Torture Me But Kill Me with Kisses (1968) — Director
  16. Love in the City (1953) — Director
  17. How Funny Can Sex Be? (1973) — Director
  18. I'm Photogenic (1980) — Director
  19. March on Rome (1962) — Director
  20. Love and Larceny (1960) — Director
  21. The Bishop's Bedroom (1977) — Director
  22. Ghost of Love (1981) — Director
  23. Venice, the Moon and You (1958) — Director
  24. Madman at War (1985) — Director
  25. Oh! Sabella (1957) — Director
  26. Good King Dagobert (1984) — Director
  27. I See Naked (1969) — Director
  28. The Tiger and the Pussycat (1967) — Director
  29. Il gaucho (1964) — Director
  30. Poor Girl, Pretty Girl (1957) — Director
  31. First Love (1978) — Director
  32. Weekend, Italian Style (1965) — Director
  33. Poor Millionaires (1959) — Director
  34. The Priest's Wife (1970) — Director
  35. The Career of a Chambermaid (1976) — Director
  36. The Thursday (1964) — Director
  37. The Prophet (1968) — Director
  38. The Dolls (1965) — Director
  39. Teresa (1987) — Director
  40. Our Husbands (1966) — Director

Also appeared in

  1. The Invisible Wall (1991) — Direttore del Giornale (voice)
  2. Monicelli: La versione di Mario (2012) — Self (archive footage)
  3. Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer (1984) — Self
  4. Spécial cinéma (1974) — Self
  5. A Beautiful Vacation (2006) — Self
  6. Sophia: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow (2007) — Self
  7. Les Rendez-vous du dimanche (1975) — Self
  8. Vittorio Gassman, le flamboyant (2015) — Self
  9. I nostri trent'anni - Generazioni a confronto (2004) — Self
  10. Dino Risi, le pessimiste joyeux de la comédie italienne (2007) — Self
  11. Ciao Marcello - Mastroianni l'antidivo (2024) — Self (archive footage)
  12. Speaking with Gassman (2005)
  13. Ciné regards (1978) — Self