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Ettore Scola is an Italian screenwriter and film director. He was born in Trevico, province of Avellino . He entered the film industry as a screenwriter in 1953, and directed his first film, Let's Talk About Women, in 1964. In 1974 Scola enjoyed international success with We All Loved Each Other... So Much , a wide fresco of post-World War II Italy life and politics, dedicated to fellow director Vittorio De Sica. In 1976 he won the Prix de la mise en scène at Cannes Film Festival for Brutti, sporchi e cattivi. Since then Ettore Scola has made several successful films, including A Special Day , That Night In Varennes , What Time Is It? and Captain Fracassa's Journey . Ettore Scola has directed close to 40 films in some 40 years, and he is still active. His film Passione d'amore, adapted from a nineteenth-century novel, was adapted by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine into the award-winning musical Passion. In 1988 he was a member of the jury at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival.
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Mario Monicelli was an Italian director and screenwriter and one of the masters of the Commedia all'Italiana , six times nominated for Oscar. Monicelli was born in Viareggio and was the youngest son of the Mantuan journalist Tommaso Monicelli. His older brother Giorgio worked as writer and... translator. Another older brother, Franco, was a journalist. He attended studies in the local lyceum, and entered into the film world through his friendship with Giacomo Forzano, son of the playwright Giovacchino Forzano, who had been encharged by Benito Mussolini with the founding of cinema studios in Tirrenia. Monicelli lived a carefree youth, and many of the cinematic jokes he later shot in Amici Miei were taken from his experience. Monicelli made his first short in 1934, a collaboration with his friend Alberto Mondadori. He followed this work up with the silent film I ragazzi della Via Paal , which was an award-winner in the Venice Film Festival. His first feature length work was made in 1937 .
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Dino Risi 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. At the age of 12 Risi became an orphan and was looked after by relatives and friends of his family. He studied... medicine and later became a psychiatrist. 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. His biggest hits were Poor, But Handsome , followed by two sequels, which he also directed; A Difficult Life ; The Easy Life ; Opiate '67 or, in a cut version, 15 From Rome ; and Scent Of A Woman , which was remade by Martin Brest starring Al Pacino in 1992. In 2002, he was awarded the Golden Lion – Honorary Award at the Venice Film Festival for his life-time work.
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