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Mario Alberto Ettore Monicelli (Italian: [ˈmaːrjo moniˈtʃɛlli]; 16 May 1915 – 29 November 2010) was an Italian film director and screenwriter, one of the masters of the commedia all'italiana ("Italian-style comedy").
Mario Alberto Ettore Monicelli è stato un regista, sceneggiatore e scrittore italiano. Tra i più celebri registi italiani della sua epoca. Insieme a Dino Risi, Luigi Comencini, Pietro Germi e Ettore Scola, fu uno dei massimi esponenti della commedia all'italiana, che contribuì a rendere nota anche all'estero con film come Guardie e ladri, I ...
Mario Monicelli was born on 16 May 1915 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was a writer and director, known for The Organizer (1963), Speriamo che sia femmina (1986) and Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958). He was married to Antonella Salerni.
Nov 30, 2010 · Mario Monicelli, an enormously popular director and screenwriter whose bittersweet films, notably “Big Deal on Madonna Street” and “The Great War,” blended humor and tragedy to create a new...
The Organizer (Italian: I compagni [note 1]) is a 1963 Italian-French-Yugoslavian-produced [1] drama film written by Mario Monicelli and Age & Scarpelli, and directed by Mario Monicelli. Set in Turin at the end of the 19th century, it stars Marcello Mastroianni as a labor activist who becomes involved with a group of textile factory workers who ...
Big Deal on Madonna Street (Italian: I soliti ignoti; released as Persons Unknown in the UK) is a 1958 Italian comedy caper film directed by Mario Monicelli. [1] Regarded as one of the masterpieces of Italian cinema, the film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film.
Dec 2, 2010 · Mario Monicelli, often called "the father of Italian screen comedy", was one of the Italian cinemas greatest craftsmen, a director whose prolific output (over 70 films) included several...
Dec 2, 2010 · The renowned director, the bearded and jovial Paolo Virzì, emerged to praise Monicelli for the assembled cameramen and microphones, and disappeared back into the Casa.
Nov 29, 2010 · Oscar-nominated director and screenwriter Mario Monicelli, considered one of the fathers of the Italian comedy of the 1940s-1960s, died Monday after jumping from a fifth-story hospital window,...
Nov 30, 2010 · Filmmaker Mario Monicelli, considered one of the fathers the famed ‘commedia Italiana’ genre died in Rome Monday night by suicide, Italian media widely reported. He was 95 years old.