Dino Risi — Playwright (21)

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Sunday Heroes (1952)
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other title: Gli eroi della domenica / Los héroes del domingo …
Gino Bardi is a centre-forward in a football team which is about to be relegated to the second division. Just before a very important match a girl he has a relationship with proposes him to rig it. He refuses the offer but he actually begins playing like an amateur and the crowd begin to smell something fishy going on.

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Complexes (1965)
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other title: Einmal zu wenig, einmal zu viel / Les Complexés …
In the first episode, Quirino tries to conquer co-worker Gabriella. In the second episode, Prof. Beozi ends up in a raid of the police in a local for homosexuals when trying to avoid a scandal. In the third episode, Guglielmo passes all tests in order to become reader of the television news brilliantly, although the commission works with all subtleness's to exclude him.

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The Widower (1959)
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other title: O Viúvo / Der Witwer …
Alberto Nardi is a Roman businessman who fancies himself a man of great capabilities, but whose factory teeters perennially on the brink of catastrophe. Alberto is married to a rich and successful businesswoman from Milan, Elvira Almiraghi who has a no-nonsense attitude and barely tolerates the attempts of her husband to keep his factory afloat with her money.

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Dear Father (1979)
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other title: Cher Papa / Querido papá …
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).

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Ghost of Love (1981)
Fantasma d'amore Douban
other title: 爱的幻影 / 一个女人两张脸 …
Nino Monti, un commercialista pavese, incontra in autobus una donna amata nella giovinezza, Anna Brigatti, ormai sfiorita e disfatta. La rivede in concomitanza con un efferato delitto. Intanto da un amico dottore, viene a sapere che Anna è morta di cancro da tre anni, dopo aver sposto il conte Zighi ed essersi trasferita a Sondrio. Nino ha occasione di andare a Sondrio e rivede Anna ancora piacente. Si danno un appuntamento sulle rive del Ticino, nei luoghi del loro giovanile amore; ma in un banale incidente Anna affoga. Nino la rivedrà ancora, vecchia e disfatta, a Pavia, ove di nuovo si sperderà nelle acque del Ticino. Nino si ritrova in una casa di cura ove ricompare l'Anna giovanile nelle vesti di un'infermiera...

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I See Naked (1969)
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Dino Risi actor: 尼诺·曼弗雷迪 / 西娃·科丝西娜 …
other title: 我看到了裸体 / Vedo nudo …
Seven sketches including the title sketch "I See Naked" in which a fashion editor begins to see naked women everywhere he goes.

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Poor But Beautiful (1958)
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迪诺·里西 actor: 玛丽莎·奥拉西欧 / 毛里齐奥·阿雷纳 …
other title: 贫穷而美丽 / Poveri ma belli …
Salvatore and Romolo are two young and poor young men that are neighbours and friends. They live with their parents in Piazza Navona, Rome. They are poor but handsome, and both fall in love with Giovanna.

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First Love (1978)
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迪诺·里西 actor: 乌戈·托尼亚齐 / 奥内拉·穆蒂 …
other title: 初恋 / Primo amore
I saw this film twice on my first trip to Italy (my first European trip, so it already was magical) and loved it, which was high praise, since I'd only been studying Italian for a few months, on my own. As I remember, it's the story of a man in an old actors home who wins a lottery, and runs away with a pretty worker from the home. He is taken advantage of, I remember, but exactly how...? I have looked for this film on video, and I think United Artists may offer it, but perhaps only in Europe. I would love to see it again...Ugo Tognazzi was a wonderful actor, and expressed many things simultaneously, as he did in La Cage Aux Folles. Lucky you if you can see the movie. I was in love with my Primo [Italian] Amore at the time, so perhaps memory has sweetened recollection. But I think it was lots of fun to watch. I found this film one of the saddest ones which I've ever seen. Dino Risi is a brilliant director and made a great film which shows the aging. Ugo Tognazzi plays the actor who feels too young to be in an "old actor's house". He just can't stand the rules and the other old people so he escape with a young girl. The sad part comes from here because the girl wants her freedom, doesn't love the man and cheats him with other guys. In fact she never told the man that she loved him.

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Love in Rome (1960)
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迪诺·里西 actor: 米琳娜·德蒙若 / 爱尔莎·玛蒂妮利 …
other title: 罗马焚情 / Un amore a Roma …
A young impoverished aristocrat and struggling writer falls for the charms of an aspiring starlet, whose amoral nature and hungry curiosity drives her from one adventure to another.

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The Easy Life (1962)
Il Sorpasso
★ 7.2 18 ratings
other title: 安逸人生 / Il Sorpasso …
Roberto, a shy law student in Rome, meets Bruno, a forty-year-old exuberant, capricious man, who takes him for a drive through the Roman and Tuscany countries in the summer. When their journey starts to blend into their daily lives though, the pair’s newfound friendship is tested.