Dino Risi

Italian film director

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Dino Risi

Risi at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival

Born| (1916-12-23)23 December 1916

Milan, Kingdom of Italy

Died| 7 June 2008(2008-06-07) (aged 91)

Rome, Italy

Years active| 1946–2002
Awards| 1976 César Award for Best Foreign Film
for Scent of a Woman

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.

## Biography[edit]

Risi was born in Milan. He had an uncle, Fernando Risi, a cinematographer, and a younger brother, Nelo (1920–2015), a director and writer. At the age of twelve, Risi became an orphan and was looked after by relatives and friends of his family.[1] He studied medicine but refused to become a psychiatrist, as his parents wished.[2]

Risi started his career in cinema as an assistant director to cinema figures such as Mario Soldati and Alberto Lattuada. Later he began directing his own films and was credited with giving early opportunities to future acting stars such as Sophia Loren and Vittorio Gassman.[1] His 1966 film Treasure of San Gennaro was entered into the 5th Moscow International Film Festival where it won a Silver Prize.[3]

His biggest hits were Poor, But Handsome (Poveri ma belli), followed by two sequels, which he also directed; A Difficult Life (Una vita difficile); The Easy Life (Il sorpasso); Opiate '67 or, in a cut version, 15 From Rome (I Mostri); and Scent of a Woman (Profumo di Donna), which was remade by Martin Brest starring Al Pacino in 1992.

In 2002, he was awarded the Golden Lion – Honorary Award (Leone d'oro alla carriera) at the Venice Film Festival for his life-time work. Two of his films, Il giovedì and Il commissario Lo Gatto, were shown in a retrospective section on Italian comedy at the 67th Venice International Film Festival.[4]

He died on 7 June 2008 at his residence in Rome. He was 91 and was survived by two children, Claudio Risi (1948–2020) and Marco Risi (1951), both film directors.[1]

## Filmography[edit]

* Verso la vita (1946)
* Tigullio minore (1947)
* 1848 (1948)
* Songs in the Streets (1950)
* Vacation with a Gangster (1952)
* Il viale della speranza (1953)
* L'amore in città (episode "Paradiso per 4 ore", 1953)
* Il segno di Venere (1955)
* Pane, amore e... (1955)
* Poveri ma belli (1956)
* La nonna Sabella (1957)
* Belle ma povere (1957)
* Venezia, la luna e tu (1959)
* Il vedovo (1959)
* Poveri milionari (1959)
* Il mattatore (1959)
* Un amore a Roma (1960)
* A porte chiuse (1961)
* A Difficult Life (Una vita difficile, 1961)
* The Easy Life (Il sorpasso, 1962)
* March on Rome (La marcia su Roma, 1962)
* Il giovedì (1963)
* I mostri (1963)
* Le bambole (episode "La telefonata", 1965)
* Il Gaucho (1965)
* I complessi (episode "Una giornata decisiva", 1965)
* L'ombrellone (1966)
* I nostri mariti (episode "Il marito di Attilia", 1966)
* Operazione San Gennaro (1966)
* Il Tigre (1967)
* Straziami, ma di baci saziami (1968)
* Il profeta (1968)
* Vedo nudo (1969)
* Il giovane normale (1969)
* In nome del popolo italiano (1971)
* La moglie del prete (1971)
* Noi donne siamo fatte così (1971)
* Mordi e fuggi (1973)
* Sessomatto (1973)
* Profumo di donna (1974)
* The Career of a Chambermaid (1976)
* Anima persa (1977)
* La stanza del vescovo (1977)
* I nuovi mostri (episodes "Con i saluti degli amici", "Tantum ergo", "Pornodiva", "Mammina mammona" and "Senza parole", 1978)
* Primo amore (1978)
* Caro papà (1979)
* Sono fotogenico (1980)
* Sunday Lovers/I seduttori della domenica (episode "Roma", 1980)
* Fantasma d'amore (1981)
* Sesso e volentieri (1982)
* ...e la vita continua (TV, 1984)
* Dagobert (1984)
* Scemo di guerra (1985)
* Teresa (1987)
* Il commissario Lo Gatto (1987)
* Il vizio di vivere (TV, 1989)
* Tolgo il disturbo (1990)
* Vita coi figli (TV, 1990)
* Giovani e belli (1996)
* Esercizi di stile (episode "Myriam", 1996)

## References[edit]

1. ^ a b c Italian director Dino Risi dies, BBC.co.uk; accessed 19 November 2015.
2. ^ Giacovelli, Enrico (1995). La commedia all'italiana (Nuova ed. illustrata, riveduta e aggiornata ed.). Roma: Gremese. ISBN 88-7605-873-7. OCLC 34813408.
3. ^ "5th Moscow International Film Festival (1967)". MIFF. Archived from the original on 16 January 2013. Retrieved 15 December 2012.
4. ^ "Italian Comedy - The State of Things". labiennale.org. Archived from the original on 1 August 2010. Retrieved 1 August 2010.

## External links[edit]

* Dino Risi at IMDb
* BBC obituary

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Films directed by Dino Risi

* Vacation with a Gangster (1951)
* Il viale della speranza (1953)
* Love in the City (1953)
* The Sign of Venus (1955)
* Scandal in Sorrento (1955)
* Poor But Beautiful (1957)
* Pretty But Poor (1957)
* Oh! Sabella (1957)
* Venice, the Moon and You (1958)
* Poor Millionaires (1958)
* The Widower (1959)
* Love and Larceny (1960)
* Love in Rome (1960)
* A Difficult Life (1961)
* Behind Closed Doors (1961)
* Il Sorpasso (1962)
* March on Rome (1962)
* I mostri (1963)
* The Thursday (1964)
* The Dolls (1965)
* The Gaucho (1965)
* Complexes (1965)
* Weekend, Italian Style (1965)
* I nostri mariti (1966)
* Treasure of San Gennaro (1966)
* The Tiger and the Pussycat (1967)
* Mr. Kinky (1968)
* Torture Me But Kill Me with Kisses (1968)
* I See Naked (1969)
* Normal Young Man (1969)
* The Priest's Wife (1970)
* That's How We Women Are (1971)
* In the Name of the Italian People (1971)
* Dirty Weekend (1973)
* How Funny Can Sex Be? (1973)
* Scent of a Woman (1974)
* The Career of a Chambermaid (1976)
* The Forbidden Room (1977)
* The Bishop's Bedroom (1977)
* Viva Italia! (1977)
* First Love (1978)
* Dear Father (1979)
* I'm Photogenic (1980)
* Sunday Lovers (1980)
* Fantasma d'amore (1981)
* Sesso e volentieri (1982)
* Good King Dagobert (1984)
* Madman at War (1985)
* Il commissario Lo Gatto (1986)
* Teresa (1987)
* I'll Be Going Now (1990)
* Vita coi figli (1991)
* Poor But Beautiful (1996)

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David di Donatello Award for Best Director

1956–1975|

* Gianni Franciolini (1956)
* Federico Fellini (1957)
* Alberto Lattuada (1959)
* Federico Fellini (1960)
* Michelangelo Antonioni (1961)
* Ermanno Olmi (1962)
* Vittorio De Sica (1963)
* Pietro Germi (1964)
* Vittorio De Sica / Francesco Rosi (1965)
* Alessandro Blasetti / Pietro Germi (1966)
* Luigi Comencini (1967)
* Carlo Lizzani (1968)
* Franco Zeffirelli (1969)
* Gillo Pontecorvo (1970)
* Luchino Visconti (1971)
* Sergio Leone / Franco Zeffirelli (1972)
* Luchino Visconti (1973)
* Federico Fellini (1974)
* Dino Risi (1975)

1976–2000|

* Mario Monicelli / Francesco Rosi (1976)
* Mario Monicelli / Valerio Zurlini (1977)
* Ettore Scola (1978)
* Francesco Rosi (1979)
* Marco Bellocchio / Gillo Pontecorvo (1980)
* Francesco Rosi (1981)
* Marco Ferreri (1982)
* Paolo and Vittorio Taviani (1983)
* Ettore Scola (1984)
* Francesco Rosi (1985)
* Mario Monicelli (1986)
* Ettore Scola (1987)
* Bernardo Bertolucci (1988)
* Ermanno Olmi (1989)
* Mario Monicelli (1990)
* Marco Risi / Ricky Tognazzi (1991)
* Gianni Amelio (1992)
* Roberto Faenza / Ricky Tognazzi (1993)
* Carlo Verdone (1994)
* Mario Martone (1995)
* Giuseppe Tornatore (1996)
* Francesco Rosi (1997)
* Roberto Benigni (1998)
* Giuseppe Tornatore (1999)
* Silvio Soldini (2000)

2001–present|

* Gabriele Muccino (2001)
* Ermanno Olmi (2002)
* Pupi Avati (2003)
* Marco Tullio Giordana (2004)
* Paolo Sorrentino (2005)
* Nanni Moretti (2006)
* Giuseppe Tornatore (2007)
* Andrea Molaioli (2008)
* Matteo Garrone (2009)
* Marco Bellocchio (2010)
* Daniele Luchetti (2011)
* Paolo and Vittorio Taviani (2012)
* Giuseppe Tornatore (2013)
* Paolo Sorrentino (2014)
* Francesco Munzi (2015)
* Matteo Garrone (2016)
* Paolo Virzì (2017)
* Jonas Carpignano (2018)
* Matteo Garrone (2019)
* Marco Bellocchio (2020)
* Giorgio Diritti (2021)
* Paolo Sorrentino (2022)
* Marco Bellocchio (2023)

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Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement

1969–2000|

* Luis Buñuel (1969)
* Orson Welles (1970)
* John Ford / Marcel Carné / Ingmar Bergman (1971)
* Charlie Chaplin / Anatoli Golovnya / Billy Wilder (1972)
* Alessandro Blasetti / Luis Buñuel / Frank Capra / George Cukor / Jean-Luc Godard / Alexander Kluge / Akira Kurosawa / Michael Powell / Satyajit Ray / King Vidor / Sergei Yutkevich / Cesare Zavattini (1982)
* Michelangelo Antonioni (1983)
* Federico Fellini (1985)
* Paolo and Vittorio Taviani (1986)
* Luigi Comencini / Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1987)
* Joris Ivens (1988)
* Robert Bresson (1989)
* Miklós Jancsó / Marcello Mastroianni (1990)
* Mario Monicelli / Gian Maria Volonté (1991)
* Francis Ford Coppola / Jeanne Moreau / Paolo Villaggio (1992)
* Claudia Cardinale / Robert De Niro / Roman Polanski / Steven Spielberg (1993)
* Suso Cecchi d'Amico / Ken Loach / Al Pacino (1994)
* Woody Allen / Giuseppe De Santis / Goffredo Lombardo / Ennio Morricone / Alain Resnais / Martin Scorsese / Alberto Sordi / Monica Vitti (1995)
* Robert Altman / Vittorio Gassman / Dustin Hoffman / Michèle Morgan (1996)
* Gérard Depardieu / Stanley Kubrick / Alida Valli (1997)
* Warren Beatty / Sophia Loren / Andrzej Wajda (1998)
* Jerry Lewis (1999)
* Clint Eastwood (2000)

2001–present|

* Éric Rohmer (2001)
* Dino Risi (2002)
* Dino De Laurentiis / Omar Sharif (2003)
* Manoel de Oliveira / Stanley Donen (2004)
* Hayao Miyazaki / Stefania Sandrelli (2005)
* David Lynch (2006)
* Tim Burton (2007)
* Ermanno Olmi (2008)
* John Lasseter (2009)
* John Woo (2010)
* Marco Bellocchio (2011)
* Francesco Rosi (2012)
* William Friedkin (2013)
* Thelma Schoonmaker / Frederick Wiseman (2014)
* Bertrand Tavernier (2015)
* Jean-Paul Belmondo / Jerzy Skolimowski (2016)
* Jane Fonda / Robert Redford (2017)
* David Cronenberg / Vanessa Redgrave (2018)
* Pedro Almodóvar / Julie Andrews (2019)
* Ann Hui / Tilda Swinton (2020)
* Roberto Benigni / Jamie Lee Curtis (2021)
* Catherine Deneuve / Paul Schrader (2022)
* Liliana Cavani / Tony Leung Chiu-wai (2023)

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