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| - | '''''Guardie e ladri''''' is a [[1951]] [[Italy|Italian]] cult comedy film directed by [[Stefano Vanzina|Steno]] and [[Mario Monicelli]]. It is starred by famous comedian Totó, and it was cinematographied by future film director [[Mario Bava]]. Its style is close to [[Italian neorealism]]. It had troubles with [[censorship]] because its view of clumsy police and smart thieves, but it was a great success. | ||
| - | ==Plot== | ||
| - | In [[Rome]], during the Americans with their '''[[Marshall plan]]''' helps, a thief ''[[Totò]]'' makes the life of a cop ''[[Aldo Fabrizi]]'' difficult. The cop has to chase the thief if he wants to recover his job, but both families, now, have become intimate friends. | ||
| - | ==Awards== | + | |
| - | *[[Cannes Film Festival]]: Best Script | + | '''Mario Monicelli''' (born [[May 15]], [[1915]]) is an [[Italy|Italian]] director and screenwriter, one of the masters of the ''[[Commedia all'Italiana]]'' (Comedy Italian style). |
| - | *[[Nastro d'Argento]]: Best Actor (Totò) | + | |
| + | ==Biography== | ||
| + | Monicelli was born in [[Viareggio]] ([[Tuscany]]), the youngest son of the [[Mantua]]n journalist [[Tommaso Monicelli]]. His older brother [[Giorgio Monicelli|Giorgio]] worked as writer and translator. | ||
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| + | He attended studies in the local lyceum, and entered in the film world through his friendship with [[Giacomo Forzano]], son of the playwright [[Giovacchino Forzano]], who had been charged by [[Mussolini]] of the founding of cinema studios in [[Tirrenia (town)|Tirrenia]]. Monicelli lived a carefree youth, and many of the jokes he later shot in ''Amici Miei'' were taken from his experience. | ||
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| + | His first short is from 1934, made together with his friend [[Alberto Mondadori]]. This was followed by the silent film ''I ragazzi della Via Paal'' ("Paal Street's Boys"), which was an award-winner in the [[Venice Film Festival]]. His first feature length work is from 1937 (''Pioggia d'Estate'', "Summer Rain"). In the years 1939–1942 Monicelli produced also numerous screenplays (up to 40), and worked as an assistant director. | ||
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| + | Monicelli made his official debut as director in 1949, with ''Totò cerca casa'', along with [[Stefano Vanzina|Steno]]. Since the very beginning his shooting style showed to be remarkably flowing. The duo produced eight successful movies in four years, including ''Guardie e ladri'' ([[1951 in film|1951]]) and ''Totò a colori'' ([[1952 in film|1952]]). From 1953 onwards Monicelli worked alone, without leaving his role as a writer of screenplays. | ||
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| + | Monicelli's career include some of the masterpieces of Italian cinema. In ''[[Big Deal on Madonna Street|I soliti ignoti (Big Deal on Madonna Street)]]'' (1958), again featuring the ubiquitous comedian [[Totò]], he discovered the comical talent of [[Vittorio Gassman]] and [[Marcello Mastroianni]] and probably produced the first true ''commedia all'italiana''. While it is more well known in the English speaking world as ''Big Deal on Madonna Street'', the actual translation from the Italian is ''"the usual unknown perpetrators"'' (which is similar to the famous line from ''[[Casablanca (film)|Casablanca]]'' of "Round up the usual suspects") | ||
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| + | ''[[La Grande Guerra]]'' (''The Great War''), released one year later, is generally regarded as his finest work. For this work Monicelli was awarded a Leone d'Oro in the [[Venice Film Festival]], and had a nomination for the [[Academy Awards]]. The film, featuring Gassman and the other superstar of Italian comedy, [[Alberto Sordi]], excelled in the absence of rethorical accents (the tragedy of [[World War I]] was still well in Italian's minds in these years) and for its sharp, tragicomical sense of history. Monicelli received two more nominations to the Academy Awards with ''[[I compagni]]'' (''The Organizer'', [[1963 in film|1963]]) and ''[[The Girl with the Pistol]]'' (1968). | ||
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| + | ''[[L'armata Brancaleone|Brancaleone]]'' (''For Love and Gold'', 1966) is another masterpiece of Italian cinema. The film tells the story of a Middle Age Italy's poor but pompous knight (played by Gassman) from a humorous point of view. Highlighted by Gasmann the bizarre ''[[Macaronic]]'' Latin-Italian dialogues devised by [[Age & Scarpelli]], the most renowned writers of Italian comedies, it was followed by ''[[Brancaleone alle Crociate]]'' (''Brancaleone at the Crusades'') in [[1970 in film|1970]]. | ||
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| + | ''[[Amici miei]]'' (''My Friends''), featuring [[Ugo Tognazzi]] and [[Philippe Noiret]], was one of the most successful films in Italy and confirmed Monicelli's skill in mixing humour, irony and bitter feelings. The dramatic accents were predominant in the ''[[Un borghese piccolo piccolo]]'' (''A Very Little Man'', [[1978 in film|1978]]), but left pace again to comicity and popularesque history with ''[[Il marchese del Grillo]]'' ([[1981 in film|1981]]). Both films featured Alberto Sordi at his best. | ||
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| + | Most recent works by Monicelli include ''[[Speriamo che sia femmina]]'' ([[1985 in film|1985]]), ''Parenti serpenti'' ([[1992 in film|1992]]) and ''[[Cari fottutissimi amici]]'' ([[1994 in film|1994]]), featuring [[Paolo Hendel]]. | ||
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| + | One of the trademarks of Monicelli's filmography is his knack for describing the tribulations of the everyday man getting infatuated with grandiose ideas (richness via theft, chivalrous idealism, military glory, fascism and so on) and then seeing him failing at every turn, losing his illusion piece by piece (most often in hiliarious ways), yet not all is desperate in his worldview, since the redeeming value he shows as capable of sweetening even the bitterest defeats is friendship, especially male partnership. | ||
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| + | Monicelli worked also for television and theatre, occasionally as an actor, and is a noteworthy playwright of his own. | ||
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| + | Monicelli collaborated and sometimes launched all the most important Italian actors of the 20th century: apart those above, we can cite here [[Monica Vitti]], [[Anna Magnani]], [[Giancarlo Giannini]], [[Stefania Sandrelli]], [[Vittorio De Sica]], [[Sophia Loren]], [[Enrico Montesano]], [[Gian Maria Volonté]], [[Paolo Villaggio]], [[Nino Manfredi]] and [[Leonardo Pieraccioni]]. | ||
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| + | Upon receiving his Golden Lion for Career in the [[1991 in film|1991]] Venice Film Festival, Monicelli declared: | ||
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| + | ''Cinema will never die, it was born and cannot die. The cinema hall will die perhaps, but I definitely don't care of this''. | ||
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| + | ==Filmography== | ||
| + | <!-- Deleted image removed: [[Image:Amici Miei Stazione.jpg|thumb|270px|One of the most hilarious and iconic scenes of ''Amici Miei'']] --> | ||
| + | ===Director=== | ||
| + | * ''[[I ragazzi della via Paal (film)|I ragazzi della Via Paal]]'', with Alberto Mondadori (1935) | ||
| + | * ''[[Pioggia d'estate]]'' (1937) | ||
| + | * ''[[Al diavolo la celebrità]]'' (1949, with Steno) | ||
| + | * ''[[Totò cerca casa]]'' (with Steno, 1949) | ||
| + | * ''[[Vita da cani]]'' (with Steno, 1950) | ||
| + | * ''[[È arrivato il cavaliere!]]'' (with Steno, 1950) | ||
| + | * ''[[Guardie e ladri]]'' (with Steno, 1951) | ||
| + | * ''[[Totò e i re di Roma]]'' (with Steno, 1952) | ||
| + | * ''[[Totò e le donne]]'' (''Toto and the Women'', 1952 - with Steno) | ||
| + | * ''[[Le infedeli]]'', with Steno (1953) | ||
| + | * ''[[Proibito]]'' (1954) | ||
| + | * ''[[Un eroe dei nostri tempi]]'' (1955) | ||
| + | * ''[[Totò e Carolina]]'' (1955) | ||
| + | * ''[[Donatella]]'' (1956) | ||
| + | * ''[[Il medico e lo stregone]]'' (1957) | ||
| + | * ''[[Padri e figli]]'' (1957) | ||
| + | * ''[[Big Deal on Madonna Street|I soliti ignoti]]'' (''[[Big Deal on Madonna Street]]'', 1958) | ||
| + | * ''[[The Great War (1959 film)|The Great War]]'' (1959) | ||
| + | * ''[[Risate di gioia]]'' ([[1960 in film|1960]]) | ||
| + | * ''[[Boccaccio '70]]'' (1962 - segment "Renzo and Luciana") | ||
| + | * ''[[I compagni]]'' (''The Organizer'', 1963) | ||
| + | * ''[[Alta infedeltà]]'' (''High Infidelity'', 1964 - with [[Luciano Salce]], [[Elio Petri]] and [[Franco Rossi]]) | ||
| + | * ''[[Casanova 70]]'' (1965) | ||
| + | * ''[[Le fate]]'' (1966 - , with [[Mauro Bolognini]], [[Antonio Pietrangeli]] and Luciano Salce ) | ||
| + | * ''[[L'armata Brancaleone]]'' (''For Love and Gold'', 1966) | ||
| + | * ''[[The Girl with the Pistol]]'' (1968) | ||
| + | * ''[[Capriccio all'italiana]]'' (''Caprice Italian Style'', 1968 - , with Mauro Bolognini, Steno, [[Pino Zac]], [[Pier Paolo Pasolini]] and Franco Rossi) | ||
| + | * ''[[Toh, è morta la nonna!]]'' (1969) | ||
| + | * ''[[Brancaleone alle Crociate]]'' (''Brancaleone at the Crusades'', 1970) | ||
| + | * ''[[Le coppie]]'' (1971 - , with Alberto Sordi and Vittorio De Sica) | ||
| + | * ''[[La mortadella]]'' (1971) | ||
| + | * ''[[Vogliamo i colonnelli]]'' (1973) | ||
| + | * ''[[Romanzo popolare]]'' (1974) | ||
| + | * ''[[Amici miei]]'' (1975) | ||
| + | * ''[[Caro Michele]]'' (1976) | ||
| + | * ''[[Signore e signori, buonanotte]]'' (1976, with [[Luigi Comencini]], [[Nanni Loy]], [[Luigi Magni]] and [[Ettore Scola]] ) | ||
| + | * ''[[Un borghese piccolo piccolo]]'' (1977) | ||
| + | * ''[[Viva Italia!]]'' (1977 - with [[Dino Risi]] and [[Ettore Scola]]) | ||
| + | * ''[[Viaggio con Anita]]'' (1979) | ||
| + | * ''[[Temporale Rosy]]'' (1979) | ||
| + | * ''[[Camera d'albergo]]'' (1981) | ||
| + | * ''[[Il marchese del Grillo]]'' (1981) | ||
| + | * ''[[Amici miei atto II]]'' (1982) | ||
| + | * ''[[Bertoldo, Bertoldino e Cacasenno]]'' (1984) | ||
| + | * ''[[Le due vite di Mattia Pascal]]'' (1985) | ||
| + | * ''[[Speriamo che sia femmina]]'' (1986) | ||
| + | * ''[[I picari]]'' (1987) | ||
| + | * ''[[La moglie ingenua e il marito malato]]'' (1989) | ||
| + | * ''[[2 registi per 12 città]]'' (1989, documentary. Segment "Verona") | ||
| + | * ''[[Il male oscuro]]'' (1990) | ||
| + | * ''[[Rossini! Rossini!]]'' (1991) | ||
| + | * ''[[Parenti serpenti]]'' (1992) | ||
| + | * ''[[Cari fottutissimi amici]]'' (1994) | ||
| + | * ''[[Facciamo paradiso]]'' (1995) | ||
| + | * ''[[Esercizi di stile]]'' (1996 - segment "Idillio edile") | ||
| + | * ''[[Topi di appartamento]]'' (1997, short) | ||
| + | * ''[[Panni sporchi]]'' (1999) | ||
| + | * ''[[Un amico magico: il maestro Nino Rota]]'' (1999, documentary) | ||
| + | * ''[[Come quando fuori piove]]'' (2000, TV mini series) | ||
| + | * ''[[Un altro mondo è possibile]]'' (2001, documentary) | ||
| + | * ''[[Lettere dalla Palestina]]'' (2002, documentary) | ||
| + | * ''[[Firenze, il nostro domani]]'' (2003, documentary) | ||
| + | * ''[[Le rose del deserto]]'' (2006) | ||
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| + | ===Screenplays=== | ||
| + | *''[[I ragazzi della via Paal (film)|I ragazzi della via Paal]]'' (1935) | ||
| + | *''[[Pioggia d'estate]]'' (1937) | ||
| + | *''[[La granduchessa si diverte]]'' (1940) | ||
| + | *''[[Brivido (film)|Brivido]]'' (1941) | ||
| + | *''[[The Lady Is Fickle|La donna è mobile]]'' (1942) | ||
| + | *''[[Cortocircuito (film)|Cortocircuito]]'' (1943) | ||
| + | *''[[Il sole di Montecassino]]'' (1945) | ||
| + | *''[[Aquila nera (film 1946)|Aquila nera]]'' (1946) | ||
| + | *''[[Gioventù perduta]]'' (1947) | ||
| + | *''[[La figlia del capitano]]'' (1947) | ||
| + | *''[[Il corriere del re]]'' (1947) | ||
| + | *''[[Follie per l'opera]]'' (1948) | ||
| + | *''[[I Miserabili]]'' (1948) | ||
| + | *''[[L'ebreo errante]]'' (1948) | ||
| + | *''[[Il cavaliere misterioso]]'' (1948) | ||
| + | *''[[Accidenti alla guerra!]]'' (1948) | ||
| + | *''[[Il tradimento]]'' (1949) | ||
| + | *''[[Al diavolo la celebrità]]'' (1949) | ||
| + | *''[[Totò cerca casa]]'' (1949) | ||
| + | *''[[Il lupo della Sila]]'' (1949) | ||
| + | *''[[Il conte Ugolino (film 1949)|Il conte Ugolino]]'' (1949) | ||
| + | *''[[Vita da cani (film 1950)|Vita da cani]]'' (1950) | ||
| + | *''[[Soho Conspiracy]]'' (1950) | ||
| + | *''[[L'inafferrabile 12]]'' (1950) | ||
| + | *''[[È arrivato il cavaliere!]]'' (1950) | ||
| + | *''[[Giuseppe Musolino|Il brigante Musolino]]'' (1950) | ||
| + | *''[[Botta e risposta]]'' (1950) | ||
| + | *''[[Vendetta... sarda]]'' (1951) | ||
| + | *''[[Guardie e ladri]]'' (1951) | ||
| + | *''[[Tizio, Caio, Sempronio]]'' (1951) | ||
| + | *''[[È l'amor che mi rovina]]'' (1951) | ||
| + | *''[[Core 'ngrato]]'' (1951) | ||
| + | *''[[Accidenti alle tasse!!]]'' (1951) | ||
| + | *''[[Amo un assassino]]'' (1951) | ||
| + | *''[[Totò e i re di Roma]]'' (1952) | ||
| + | *''[[Totò e le donne]]'' (1952) | ||
| + | *''[[Totò a colori]]'' (1952) | ||
| + | *''[[Perdonami]]'' (1952) | ||
| + | *''[[Cinque poveri in automobile]]'' (1952) | ||
| + | *''[[Cani e gatti]]'' (1952) | ||
| + | *''[[Un turco napoletano]]'' (1953) | ||
| + | *''[[Il più comico spettacolo del mondo]]'' (1953) | ||
| + | *''[[Le infedeli]]'' (1953) | ||
| + | *''[[Cavalleria rusticana]]'' (1953) | ||
| + | *''[[Giuseppe Verdi (film)|Giuseppe Verdi]]'' (1953) | ||
| + | *''[[Guai ai vinti]]'' (1954) | ||
| + | *''[[Proibito (film 1954)|Proibito]]'' (1954) | ||
| + | *''[[Un eroe dei nostri tempi]]'' (1955) | ||
| + | *''[[Totò e Carolina]]'' (1955) | ||
| + | *''[[La donna più bella del mondo]]'' (1955) | ||
| + | *''[[Donatella (film)|Donatella]]'' (1956) | ||
| + | *''[[Il medico e lo stregone]]'' (1957) | ||
| + | *''[[Padri e figli]]'' (1957) | ||
| + | *''[[Big Deal on Madonna Street|I soliti ignoti]]'' (1958) | ||
| + | *''[[The Great War (1959 film)]]'' (1959) | ||
| + | *''[[Risate di gioia]]'' (1960) | ||
| + | *''[[A cavallo della tigre (1961 film)|A cavallo della tigre]]'' (1961) | ||
| + | *''[[Boccaccio '70]]'' (1962 - segment "Renzo e Luciana") | ||
| + | *''[[Frenesia dell'estate]]'' (1963) | ||
| + | *''[[I compagni]]'' (1963) | ||
| + | *''[[Casanova 70]]'' (1965) | ||
| + | *''[[I nostri mariti]]'' (1966 - segment "Il marito di Olga") | ||
| + | *''[[L'armata Brancaleone]]'' (1966) | ||
| + | *''[[The Girl with the Pistol]]'' (1968) | ||
| + | *''[[Toh, è morta la nonna!]]'' (1969) | ||
| + | *''[[Brancaleone alle crociate]]'' (1970) | ||
| + | *''[[Vogliamo i colonnelli]]'' (1973) | ||
| + | *''[[Gran bollito]]'' (1977) | ||
| + | *''[[Amici miei]]'' (''My Friends'', 1975) | ||
| + | *''[[Un borghese piccolo piccolo]]'' (1977) | ||
| + | *''[[Temporale Rosy]]'' (1979) | ||
| + | *''[[Camera d'albergo]]'' (1981) | ||
| + | *''[[Il marchese del Grillo]]'' (1981) | ||
| + | *''[[Amici miei atto II]]'' (1982) | ||
| + | *''[[Bertoldo, Bertoldino e Cacasenno (film 1984)|Bertoldo, Bertoldino e Cacasenno]]'' (1984) | ||
| + | *''[[Le due vite di Mattia Pascal]]'' (1985) | ||
| + | *''[[Speriamo che sia femmina]]'' (1986) | ||
| + | *''[[I picari]]'' (1987) | ||
| + | *''[[Il male oscuro]]'' (1990) | ||
| + | *''[[Rossini! Rossini!]]'' (1991) | ||
| + | *''[[Parenti serpenti]]'' (1992) | ||
| + | *''[[Cari fottutissimi amici]]'' (1994) | ||
| + | *''[[Facciamo paradiso]]'' (1995) | ||
| + | *''[[Panni sporchi]]'' (1999) | ||
| + | *''[[Un amico magico: il maestro Nino Rota]]'' (1999, documentary) | ||
| + | *''[[Come quando fuori piove]]'' (2000, TV mini series) | ||
| + | *''[[Le rose del deserto]]'' (2006) | ||
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| + | ===Actor=== | ||
| + | *''[[Rue du Pied de Grue]]'' (1979) | ||
| + | *''[[Sono fotogenico]]'', directed by [[Dino Risi]] (1980) | ||
| + | *''[[Il ciclone]]'', directed by [[Leonardo Pieraccioni]] (1996, voice) | ||
| + | *''[[Sotto il sole della Toscana]]'' (''Under the Tuscan Sun'', 2003) | ||
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Mario Monicelli (born May 15, 1915) is an Italian director and screenwriter, one of the masters of the Commedia all'Italiana (Comedy Italian style).
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Biography
Monicelli was born in Viareggio (Tuscany), the youngest son of the Mantuan journalist Tommaso Monicelli. His older brother Giorgio worked as writer and translator.
He attended studies in the local lyceum, and entered in the film world through his friendship with Giacomo Forzano, son of the playwright Giovacchino Forzano, who had been charged by Mussolini of the founding of cinema studios in Tirrenia. Monicelli lived a carefree youth, and many of the jokes he later shot in Amici Miei were taken from his experience.
His first short is from 1934, made together with his friend Alberto Mondadori. This was followed by the silent film I ragazzi della Via Paal ("Paal Street's Boys"), which was an award-winner in the Venice Film Festival. His first feature length work is from 1937 (Pioggia d'Estate, "Summer Rain"). In the years 1939–1942 Monicelli produced also numerous screenplays (up to 40), and worked as an assistant director.
Monicelli made his official debut as director in 1949, with Totò cerca casa, along with Steno. Since the very beginning his shooting style showed to be remarkably flowing. The duo produced eight successful movies in four years, including Guardie e ladri (1951) and Totò a colori (1952). From 1953 onwards Monicelli worked alone, without leaving his role as a writer of screenplays.
Monicelli's career include some of the masterpieces of Italian cinema. In I soliti ignoti (Big Deal on Madonna Street) (1958), again featuring the ubiquitous comedian Totò, he discovered the comical talent of Vittorio Gassman and Marcello Mastroianni and probably produced the first true commedia all'italiana. While it is more well known in the English speaking world as Big Deal on Madonna Street, the actual translation from the Italian is "the usual unknown perpetrators" (which is similar to the famous line from Casablanca of "Round up the usual suspects")
La Grande Guerra (The Great War), released one year later, is generally regarded as his finest work. For this work Monicelli was awarded a Leone d'Oro in the Venice Film Festival, and had a nomination for the Academy Awards. The film, featuring Gassman and the other superstar of Italian comedy, Alberto Sordi, excelled in the absence of rethorical accents (the tragedy of World War I was still well in Italian's minds in these years) and for its sharp, tragicomical sense of history. Monicelli received two more nominations to the Academy Awards with I compagni (The Organizer, 1963) and The Girl with the Pistol (1968).
Brancaleone (For Love and Gold, 1966) is another masterpiece of Italian cinema. The film tells the story of a Middle Age Italy's poor but pompous knight (played by Gassman) from a humorous point of view. Highlighted by Gasmann the bizarre Macaronic Latin-Italian dialogues devised by Age & Scarpelli, the most renowned writers of Italian comedies, it was followed by Brancaleone alle Crociate (Brancaleone at the Crusades) in 1970.
Amici miei (My Friends), featuring Ugo Tognazzi and Philippe Noiret, was one of the most successful films in Italy and confirmed Monicelli's skill in mixing humour, irony and bitter feelings. The dramatic accents were predominant in the Un borghese piccolo piccolo (A Very Little Man, 1978), but left pace again to comicity and popularesque history with Il marchese del Grillo (1981). Both films featured Alberto Sordi at his best.
Most recent works by Monicelli include Speriamo che sia femmina (1985), Parenti serpenti (1992) and Cari fottutissimi amici (1994), featuring Paolo Hendel.
One of the trademarks of Monicelli's filmography is his knack for describing the tribulations of the everyday man getting infatuated with grandiose ideas (richness via theft, chivalrous idealism, military glory, fascism and so on) and then seeing him failing at every turn, losing his illusion piece by piece (most often in hiliarious ways), yet not all is desperate in his worldview, since the redeeming value he shows as capable of sweetening even the bitterest defeats is friendship, especially male partnership.
Monicelli worked also for television and theatre, occasionally as an actor, and is a noteworthy playwright of his own.
Monicelli collaborated and sometimes launched all the most important Italian actors of the 20th century: apart those above, we can cite here Monica Vitti, Anna Magnani, Giancarlo Giannini, Stefania Sandrelli, Vittorio De Sica, Sophia Loren, Enrico Montesano, Gian Maria Volonté, Paolo Villaggio, Nino Manfredi and Leonardo Pieraccioni.
Upon receiving his Golden Lion for Career in the 1991 Venice Film Festival, Monicelli declared:
Cinema will never die, it was born and cannot die. The cinema hall will die perhaps, but I definitely don't care of this.
Filmography
Director
- I ragazzi della Via Paal, with Alberto Mondadori (1935)
- Pioggia d'estate (1937)
- Al diavolo la celebrità (1949, with Steno)
- Totò cerca casa (with Steno, 1949)
- Vita da cani (with Steno, 1950)
- È arrivato il cavaliere! (with Steno, 1950)
- Guardie e ladri (with Steno, 1951)
- Totò e i re di Roma (with Steno, 1952)
- Totò e le donne (Toto and the Women, 1952 - with Steno)
- Le infedeli, with Steno (1953)
- Proibito (1954)
- Un eroe dei nostri tempi (1955)
- Totò e Carolina (1955)
- Donatella (1956)
- Il medico e lo stregone (1957)
- Padri e figli (1957)
- I soliti ignoti (Big Deal on Madonna Street, 1958)
- The Great War (1959)
- Risate di gioia (1960)
- Boccaccio '70 (1962 - segment "Renzo and Luciana")
- I compagni (The Organizer, 1963)
- Alta infedeltà (High Infidelity, 1964 - with Luciano Salce, Elio Petri and Franco Rossi)
- Casanova 70 (1965)
- Le fate (1966 - , with Mauro Bolognini, Antonio Pietrangeli and Luciano Salce )
- L'armata Brancaleone (For Love and Gold, 1966)
- The Girl with the Pistol (1968)
- Capriccio all'italiana (Caprice Italian Style, 1968 - , with Mauro Bolognini, Steno, Pino Zac, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Franco Rossi)
- Toh, è morta la nonna! (1969)
- Brancaleone alle Crociate (Brancaleone at the Crusades, 1970)
- Le coppie (1971 - , with Alberto Sordi and Vittorio De Sica)
- La mortadella (1971)
- Vogliamo i colonnelli (1973)
- Romanzo popolare (1974)
- Amici miei (1975)
- Caro Michele (1976)
- Signore e signori, buonanotte (1976, with Luigi Comencini, Nanni Loy, Luigi Magni and Ettore Scola )
- Un borghese piccolo piccolo (1977)
- Viva Italia! (1977 - with Dino Risi and Ettore Scola)
- Viaggio con Anita (1979)
- Temporale Rosy (1979)
- Camera d'albergo (1981)
- Il marchese del Grillo (1981)
- Amici miei atto II (1982)
- Bertoldo, Bertoldino e Cacasenno (1984)
- Le due vite di Mattia Pascal (1985)
- Speriamo che sia femmina (1986)
- I picari (1987)
- La moglie ingenua e il marito malato (1989)
- 2 registi per 12 città (1989, documentary. Segment "Verona")
- Il male oscuro (1990)
- Rossini! Rossini! (1991)
- Parenti serpenti (1992)
- Cari fottutissimi amici (1994)
- Facciamo paradiso (1995)
- Esercizi di stile (1996 - segment "Idillio edile")
- Topi di appartamento (1997, short)
- Panni sporchi (1999)
- Un amico magico: il maestro Nino Rota (1999, documentary)
- Come quando fuori piove (2000, TV mini series)
- Un altro mondo è possibile (2001, documentary)
- Lettere dalla Palestina (2002, documentary)
- Firenze, il nostro domani (2003, documentary)
- Le rose del deserto (2006)
Screenplays
- I ragazzi della via Paal (1935)
- Pioggia d'estate (1937)
- La granduchessa si diverte (1940)
- Brivido (1941)
- La donna è mobile (1942)
- Cortocircuito (1943)
- Il sole di Montecassino (1945)
- Aquila nera (1946)
- Gioventù perduta (1947)
- La figlia del capitano (1947)
- Il corriere del re (1947)
- Follie per l'opera (1948)
- I Miserabili (1948)
- L'ebreo errante (1948)
- Il cavaliere misterioso (1948)
- Accidenti alla guerra! (1948)
- Il tradimento (1949)
- Al diavolo la celebrità (1949)
- Totò cerca casa (1949)
- Il lupo della Sila (1949)
- Il conte Ugolino (1949)
- Vita da cani (1950)
- Soho Conspiracy (1950)
- L'inafferrabile 12 (1950)
- È arrivato il cavaliere! (1950)
- Il brigante Musolino (1950)
- Botta e risposta (1950)
- Vendetta... sarda (1951)
- Guardie e ladri (1951)
- Tizio, Caio, Sempronio (1951)
- È l'amor che mi rovina (1951)
- Core 'ngrato (1951)
- Accidenti alle tasse!! (1951)
- Amo un assassino (1951)
- Totò e i re di Roma (1952)
- Totò e le donne (1952)
- Totò a colori (1952)
- Perdonami (1952)
- Cinque poveri in automobile (1952)
- Cani e gatti (1952)
- Un turco napoletano (1953)
- Il più comico spettacolo del mondo (1953)
- Le infedeli (1953)
- Cavalleria rusticana (1953)
- Giuseppe Verdi (1953)
- Guai ai vinti (1954)
- Proibito (1954)
- Un eroe dei nostri tempi (1955)
- Totò e Carolina (1955)
- La donna più bella del mondo (1955)
- Donatella (1956)
- Il medico e lo stregone (1957)
- Padri e figli (1957)
- I soliti ignoti (1958)
- The Great War (1959 film) (1959)
- Risate di gioia (1960)
- A cavallo della tigre (1961)
- Boccaccio '70 (1962 - segment "Renzo e Luciana")
- Frenesia dell'estate (1963)
- I compagni (1963)
- Casanova 70 (1965)
- I nostri mariti (1966 - segment "Il marito di Olga")
- L'armata Brancaleone (1966)
- The Girl with the Pistol (1968)
- Toh, è morta la nonna! (1969)
- Brancaleone alle crociate (1970)
- Vogliamo i colonnelli (1973)
- Gran bollito (1977)
- Amici miei (My Friends, 1975)
- Un borghese piccolo piccolo (1977)
- Temporale Rosy (1979)
- Camera d'albergo (1981)
- Il marchese del Grillo (1981)
- Amici miei atto II (1982)
- Bertoldo, Bertoldino e Cacasenno (1984)
- Le due vite di Mattia Pascal (1985)
- Speriamo che sia femmina (1986)
- I picari (1987)
- Il male oscuro (1990)
- Rossini! Rossini! (1991)
- Parenti serpenti (1992)
- Cari fottutissimi amici (1994)
- Facciamo paradiso (1995)
- Panni sporchi (1999)
- Un amico magico: il maestro Nino Rota (1999, documentary)
- Come quando fuori piove (2000, TV mini series)
- Le rose del deserto (2006)
Actor
- Rue du Pied de Grue (1979)
- Sono fotogenico, directed by Dino Risi (1980)
- Il ciclone, directed by Leonardo Pieraccioni (1996, voice)
- Sotto il sole della Toscana (Under the Tuscan Sun, 2003)
