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- ROME (Reuters) - Film director Dino Risi, who chronicled the bittersweet and lighter side of Italy's post-war economic boom, died on Saturday, the residence where he lived said. Risi, who was 91, was known as one of the masters of the Commedia all'Italiana (Italian comedy).
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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.
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Italian director Dino Risi, who helped create the postwar genre of bittersweet comedies known as Commedia all'Italiana, was commemorated by friends and colleagues here on Monday following his death at the weekend.
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Dino Risi, an Italian filmmaker whose searing satires about the newfound prosperity of his countrymen during the Italian “economic miracle” of the 1950s and ’60s helped establish a new style that...
Jun 9, 2008 · Dino Risi, an Oscar-nominated master of the Italian film who chronicled the bittersweet and lighter side of his country’s postwar economic boom, has died. He was 91. Risi, who had been in...
Jun 7, 2008 · 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.
Italy. Language. Italian. Scent of a Woman (Italian: Profumo di donna) is a 1974 Commedia all'italiana film directed by Dino Risi, based on Il buio e il miele, a story by Giovanni Arpino. Both Risi and the leading actor Vittorio Gassman won important Italian and French awards. An American remake, Scent of a Woman, was released in 1992.
