Under the Tuscan Sun
2003
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In 1940 Monicelli enlisted in the cavalry, hoping that this choice could avoid him being sent to Russia or to Africa. When the army broke up in 1943, he fled to Rome, where he remained hidden until the summer of 1944. In 1946 his father Tomaso committed suicide.
By William Grimes. Nov. 29, 2010. Mario Monicelli, an enormously popular director and screenwriter whose bittersweet films, notably “Big Deal on Madonna Street” and “The Great War,” blended...
The Valiant Death of Mario Monicelli. The Oscar-nominated filmmaker threw himself out of his hospital window at age 95—which his fans see as an act of courage. By Jeffrey Tayler. Andrew...
Film director and screenwriter Mario Monicelli died at the age of 95 yesterday after jumping from a fifth-floor hospital window in Rome. He had been admitted several days earlier and was being treated for prostrate cancer.
One of the greats of post-war Italian cinema, Mario Monicelli, has killed himself by jumping out of a hospital window. Monicelli, 95, was dubbed the "father of Italian comedy" for directing...
Deftly mixing comedy with tragedy, director Mario Monicelli laid bare Italy's flaws and sins for a half-century on the screen.In his final script of his own life, he chose a dramatic ending:...
Director Mario Monicelli, considered the father of the commedia all'Italiana, committed suicide yesterday by jumping from the window of the hospital in which he had just been admitted for a tumor. He was 95.
