Love and Larceny or Il mattatore is a 1960 Italian comedy film directed by Dino Risi. It was entered into the 10th Berlin International Film Festival.
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.more
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