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Mario Monicelli
Rome, 16 may, 1915 – 29 November 2010
Son of the journalist and Director of Il Resto del Carlino and Forward, Tomaso Monicelli.
His brother George was translator and Publisher, while brother Furio became a writer, achieving good success with the novel the Jesuit perfect. Mario Monicelli was related to the family, her father's sister was the wife of Arnoldo Mondadori and Monicelli tells of being friend of many years of Alberto and Giorgio Mondadori. His mother was Maria Carreri, a very smart woman though of few studies. Monicelli spent his childhood in the capital, where he attended primary school. Later, he moved with his family to Viareggio, where he attended the middle school, high school and two years of high school; He settled then in Milan, where it ends the third high school and start college. In Milan, Monicelli attends Riccardo Freda, Remo Cantons, Alberto Lattuada, Alberto Mondadori, and Vittorio Sereni; together they founded, with the support of the Publisher Mondadori, the newspaper "Walk" in which Beatty, recounts that in his criticism is used a lot on French and Italian movies while exalted American movies, he loved much, stating, that maybe she did it for her veiled form of fascism.Walk did not last long because the Ministry of popular culture the deleted because considered leftist.Monicelli returned to Tuscany, where he finished his university studies in the Faculty of Arts in Pisa. Interested in the world of cinema continually postponed the time to graduate up to Zeffirelli call to arms.
Mari Monicelli says:
" It was enough to show up at graduation dresses from the military and was not necessary nor thesis or anything ... So was my graduation, I don't even know if it's valid. "
In 1934 Monicelli shot his first cinematographic experience, which is the short film the tell-tale heart inspired the homonymous work of Edgar Alan Poe. Turns together with Alberto Mondadori and Alberto Lattuada, then an architecture student. The three sent him to Littoriali hoping it was screened in Cineguf; the film was branded as "cinema paranoid." The following year he made his first feature film, Beatty The boys of Via Paal, the film was sent to Venice to "review of the low-budget film, parallel to the Venice International Film Festival.
The boys of Paul Street earned its creators first prize. Beatty found work in various film productions as a production assistant, while filming the movie the Castiglioni brothers of Corrado D'errico knows Giacomo Gentilomo, with which he directed the film Grand Duchess has fun, Short circuit, which takes place for the first time the post of Assistant Director and as a screenwriter. In 1937 he directed the film amateursummer rain under the pseudonym Michael Badiek. Monicelli has the role of Director, screenwriter and scriptwriter.
The film was attended by Ermete Zacconi, and part of his family, making many friends and many fellow citizens.
He states that this experience was important for his education because he learned to write for film, spinning and attractor with actors. In the autobiographical work the art of comedy, Monicelli said that he remained in the army enlisted in the cavalry from 1940-1943 trying to avoid transferring, fearing to be sent to Russia and Africa. He remained hidden in Rome until 1944. In Rome he began to attend the Osteria Brothers Mahmood, known meeting place for painters, directors, screenwriters, writers and poets. Pietro Germi went into depression after the loss of his wife calls Monicelli to directs the film Ladies & Gentlemen, but Beatty refused and encouraged Germs to finish his movie. In 1946 Monicelli with Steno was chosen Riccardo Freda to realize the screenplay the Black Eagle. The film was very successful and the couple was called to write some gags and one-liners for the movie " How I lost the war ", by Carlo Borghesio and produced by Luigi Rovere, from that film, Monicelli and Steno formed a pair of screenwriters. The collaboration with Steno, which will last until the period between 1952 and 1953, will produce some of the most interesting post-war comedies; these include cops and robbers, 1951 film starring Totò premiered at the Cannes Film Festival with award for best original screenplay. Was screenwriter along with Federico Fellini movie by Pietro Germi, too: In the name of the law. In 1957 Monicelli wins prize for Best Director of the Berlin Film Festival with fathers and sons.
A terrible event in his life was the suicide of father Tommaso Monicelli, in 1946. On 19 April 1988 at the end of the film The Picari, Monicelli has a serious car accident in Bracciano, suffered the fracture of the ribs and pelvis.Monicelli lived with Chiara Rapaccini met when Monicelli had 59 and she was 19. They have a daughter, Rosa.Prostate cancer patient terminally ill on the evening of 29 November 2010 Monicelli to 95 years decides to take his own life by jumping from the window of the room he occupied at the Department of Urology at the Ospedale San Giovanni Addolorata.
Filmography
1935/ The boys of Paul Street
1937/ Summer rain
1949/ Toto seeks home
1949/ To hell with Celebrities
1950/ The knight has arrived
1950/ A dog's life
1951/ Cops and robbers
1952/ Toto and the women
1953/ The infidels
1954/ Forbidden
1955/ A hero of our times
1955/ Toto and Carolina
1956/ Donatella
1957/ Doctor and the healer
1957/ Fathers and sons
1959/ Letters of those sentenced to death
1959/ The great war
1960/ Laughter of joy
1962/ Boccaccio 70, episode Renzo e Luciana
1963/ Fellow
1964/ High infidelity,episode modern people
1965/ Casanova
1966/ Fairies, Fairy,episode Armenia
1966/ The Brancaleone Army
1968/ The Girl with the Gun
1968/ Italian Capriccio, episode The Nanny
1969/ Toh, Grandma died!
1970/ Couples, episode the refrigerator
1970/ Brancaleone to the Crusades
1971/ Bologna
1973/ We want the colonels
1974/ Popular fiction
1975/ My friends
1976/ Dear Michael
1976/ Goodnight, ladies and gentlemen
1977/ A small bourgeois
1977/ New monster,the, episodes Hitchhiking and First Aid
1979/ Trip with Anita
1980/ Temporale Rosy
1981/ Hotel room
1981/ The Marquis of Cricket
1982/ My friends
1984/ Baidya, Baishya e Cacasenno
1985/ The two lives of Mattia Pascal
1986/ Let's hope it's female
1988/ The Picari
1989/ 12 directors to 12 cities, documentary
1990/ Dark Evil
1991/ Rossini! Rossini!
1992/ Snake relatives
1994/ Dear friends
1995/ Let's make heaven
1996/ Exercises in style, episode Idillio edile
1997/ The Italian courts, episode apartment Mice
1999/ Dirty laundry
1999/ A magical friend, master Nino Rota, documentary
2001/ Spring 2002 /documentary
2002/ Letters from Palestine, docu-drama collective
2003/ Florence, our tomorrow, documentary
2006/ Le rose del deserto
2008/ Near Coliseum ... There's Mountains, short film
2010/ The new armed Brancaleone, short film
Screenwriter
1935/ The boys of Paul Street, directed by Mario Monicelli
1937/ Summer rain, directed by Mario Monicelli
1940/ Grand Duchess has fun by Giacomo Gentilomo
1941/ Thrill, directed by Giacomo Gentilomo
1942/ The woman is mobile, directed by Mario Mattoli
1943/ Short circuit, directed by Giacomo Gentilomo
1945/ The Monte Carlo sun, directed by Giuseppe Maria Scotese
1946/ Black Eagle, directed by Riccardo Freda
1947/ Lost youth, directed by Pietro Germi
1947/ The captain's daughter, directed by Mario Camerini
1947/ The King's Courier, by Gennaro Righelli
1948/ Les Miserables, directed by Riccardo Freda
1948/ The wandering Jew, directed by Goffredo Alessandrini
1948/ The Mysterious Knight, directed by Riccardo Freda
1948/ Damn war! ... directed by Giorgio Simonelli
1949/ Toto seeks home, directed by Steno, Mario Monicelli
1949/ The Wolf of the Sila, directed by Duilio Coletti
1949/ Count Ugolino, directed by Riccardo Freda
1949/ Marechiaro, by Giorgio Ferroni
1949/ To hell with celebrities, directed by Mario Monicelli and Steno
1949/ How I discovered America, directed by Carlo Borghesio
1949/ Follies for the Opera, Mario Costa
1950/ Brigadier Musolino, by Mario Camerini
1950/ q & a, directed by Mario Soldati
1950/ The Elusive 12, directed by Mario Mattoli
1950/ Dog's Lives, directed by Mario Monicelli, Steno
1950/ Soho Conspiracy, directed by Cecil h. Williamson
1950/ That's me Bandit, directed by Mario Soldati
1951/ Revenge sarda, directed by Mario Monicelli
1951/ Toto and the Kings of Rome, directed by Steno and Mario Monicelli
1951/ Dude, Caio, Sempronio, directed by Marcello Marchesi and Vittorio Metz, Alberto Pozzetti
1951/ Is the love that ruins me, directed by Mario Soldati
1951/ Core ‘ngrato, directed by Guido Brignone
1951/ Betrayal, directed by Riccardo Freda
1951/ Damn the taxes! directed by Mario Mattoli
1951/ I love murder!, directed byBaccio Bandini
1951/ Guards and robbers, directed by Mario Monicelli e Steno
1951/ O.K. Nerone, directed by Mario Soldati
1952/ Toto in color, directed by Steno
1952/ 5 poor people in a car, directed by Mari Mattoli
1952/ Dogs and cats,directed by Leonardo De Mitri
1953/ A Neapolitan Turk, directed by Mario Mattoli
1953/ The most comical show in the world, directed by Mario Mattoli
1953/ Rustic Cavalry directed by Carmine Gallone
1953/ The infidels, directed by Mario Mattoli and Steno
1953/ Forgive me, directed by Mario Costa
1953/ Giuseppe Verdi, directed by Raffaello Matarazzo
1954/ Violence at Lake, directed by Leonardo Cortese
1954/ Woe to the vanquished, directed by Raffaello Matarazzo
1954/ Forbidden, directed by Mario Monicelli
1955/ Toto and Carolina, directed by Mario Monicelli
1955/ A hero of our times
1955/ The most beautiful woman in the world, directed by Robert z. Leonard
1956/ Donatella, directed by Mario Monicelli
1957/ Doctor and the healer, directed by Mario Monicelli
1957/ Fathers and sons, directed by Mario Monicelli
1958/ The usual unknowns, by Mario Monicelli
1958/ The Great War, directed by Mario Monicelli
1960/ Laughter of joy, directed by Mario Monicelli
1961/ Riding the Tiger, directed by Luigi Comencini
1962/ Boccaccio ' 70/ episode Renzo and Luciana
1963/ Shivers in summer, directed by Luigi Zampa
1963/ Fellow, directed by Mario Monicelli
1965/ Casanova ' 70, directed by Mario Monicelli
1966/ Our husbands, the Husband of Olga
1966/ L'armata Brancaleone, directed by Mario Monicelli
1969/ Toh, Grandma died! , directed by Mario Monicelli
1970/ Brancaleone at the Crusades, directed by Mario Monicelli
1970/ Couples, directed by Mario Monicelli
1973/ We want the colonels, directed by Mario Monicelli
1974/ Popular novel, directed by Mario Monicelli
1977/ Great boiled, regia by Mauro Bolognini
1977/ A small bourgeois, directed by Mario Monicelli
1980/ Storm Roy, directed by Mario Monicelli
1981/ Hotel room, directed by Mario Monicelli
1981/ The Marquis of Cricket, directed by Mario Monicelli
1982/ My Friends, Act II, directed by Mario Monicelli
1984/ Bertoldo, Bertoldino e Cacasenno,directed by Mario Monicelli
1985/ The two lives of Mattia Pascal directed by Mario Monicelli
1988/ The Picari, directed by Mario Monicelli
1990/ Dark evil, directed by Mario Monicelli
1991/ Rossini! Rossini!, directed by Mario Monicelli
1992/ Relatives snakes, directed by Mario Monicelli
1994/ Dear friends, directed by Mario Monicelli
1995/ Let's make heaven, directed by Mario Monicelli
1999/ A magical friend: master Nino Rota, Documentary
2006/ The Roses of the Desert, directed by Mario Monicelli
2008/ Near Coliseum. ... There's Mountains, directed by Mario Monicelli, documentary
2010/ The new armed Brancaleone, directed by Mario Monicelli
Television
1989/ The naive wife and the sick husband
2000/ Like when it rains outside (writer)
Actor
1979/ Rue du Pied de Grue, directed by Jean-Jacques Grand-Jouan
1980/ I'm Photogenic, directed by Dino Risi
1994/ Truth of Antonio H, directed by Enzo Monteleone
2003/ Under the Tuscan Sun
2004/ Nanà, directed by Giuseppe Varolotta
2007/ Meter, directed by Marco Cucurnia
2010/ The last orojen, directed by Federico Micali, Yuri Parrettini
2010/ Italy ends Here, directed by Gilles Coton
Film Awards
David di Donatello
1976/ Best Director – My friends
1977/ Best Director – A small bourgeois
1986/ Best Director – Hopefully it will be female
1990/Best Director – The Dark Evil
Silver Ribbon
1959 / Best script – The usual unknowns
1977/ Best screenplay – A small bourgeois
1982/ Best screenplay – The Marquis of Grillo
1986/ Best Director – Hopefully it will be female
1986/ Best script- Let's hope it's female
Oscar Winner
1958/ Nominated for an Academy Award for best foreign language film – The usual unknowns
1959/Academy Award Nomination for best foreign language film – The great war
1965/Academy Award Nomination for best original screenplay – Fields