Directing

Luigi Comencini

Born June 8, 1916 · Salò, Brescia, Lombardy, Italy

Died April 6, 2007 · aged 90

Luigi Comencini (8 June 1916, Salò – 6 April 2007) was an Italian film director. Together with Dino Risi, Ettore Scola and Mario Monicelli, he was considered among the masters of the commedia all'italiana genre. His daughters Cristina and Francesca are both film directors. Description above from the Wikipedia article Luigi Comencini,licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia…

Known For

The Adventures of Pinocchio

The Adventures of Pinocchio · 1972

The Adventures of Pinocchio

MovieFantasyDrama

Mastro Geppetto is a poor carpenter with no wife and no children. The man is very lonely, and after trading a piece of wood with his colleague Mastro Ciliegia, decides to build himself a puppet to keep him company.

Strange Occasion

Strange Occasion · 1976

Strange Occasion

MovieRomanceComedy

Three sexy and comic episodes.

Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen

Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen · 1976

Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen

An episodic satire of the political and social status of Italy in the seventies, through the shows of one day of a television channel.

The Scopone Game

The Scopone Game · 1972

The Scopone Game

MovieComedyDrama

An aging American millionairess journeys to Rome each year with her chauffeur George to play the card game scopone with destitute Peppino and his wife Antonia.

Frisky

MovieComedyRomance

The relationships between a veteran marshal, his bride-to-be, a rookie and his fiancée are severely tested when the young carabiniere is temporarily sent to a distant town.

The Sign of Venus

The Sign of Venus · 1955

The Sign of Venus

MovieRomanceComedy

Agnese has many men who woo her and live with her cousin Cesira, who has the opposite problem with men and wishes she would also have men woo her.

Bebo's Girl

Bebo's Girl · 1964

At the end of World War II, shallow, self-centered Mara is the prettiest girl in her small Italian village; Bebo is a Communist partisan who is finding it difficult to adjust to the dull banalities of life in peacetime. When Mara’s father, a passionate Communist, declares that his daughter will marry the returning hero, her reactions range from joy to bitter resentment.

Bread, Love and Dreams

Bread, Love and Dreams · 1953

Bread, Love and Dreams

MovieRomanceComedy

When a veteran marshal is sent to a small town, he quickly falls for two women: a midwife and an earthy young woman nicknamed "Frisky".

Filmography

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The Adventures of Pinocchio

The Adventures of Pinocchio · 1972

The Adventures of Pinocchio

MovieFantasyDrama

Mastro Geppetto is a poor carpenter with no wife and no children. The man is very lonely, and after trading a piece of wood with his colleague Mastro Ciliegia, decides to build himself a puppet to keep him company.

Director

Strange Occasion

Strange Occasion · 1976

Strange Occasion

MovieRomanceComedy

Three sexy and comic episodes.

Director

Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen

Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen · 1976

Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen

An episodic satire of the political and social status of Italy in the seventies, through the shows of one day of a television channel.

Director

The Scopone Game

The Scopone Game · 1972

The Scopone Game

MovieComedyDrama

An aging American millionairess journeys to Rome each year with her chauffeur George to play the card game scopone with destitute Peppino and his wife Antonia.

Director

Frisky

MovieComedyRomance

The relationships between a veteran marshal, his bride-to-be, a rookie and his fiancée are severely tested when the young carabiniere is temporarily sent to a distant town.

Story

The Sign of Venus

The Sign of Venus · 1955

The Sign of Venus

MovieRomanceComedy

Agnese has many men who woo her and live with her cousin Cesira, who has the opposite problem with men and wishes she would also have men woo her.

Story

Bebo's Girl

Bebo's Girl · 1964

At the end of World War II, shallow, self-centered Mara is the prettiest girl in her small Italian village; Bebo is a Communist partisan who is finding it difficult to adjust to the dull banalities of life in peacetime. When Mara’s father, a passionate Communist, declares that his daughter will marry the returning hero, her reactions range from joy to bitter resentment.

Director

Bread, Love and Dreams

Bread, Love and Dreams · 1953

Bread, Love and Dreams

MovieRomanceComedy

When a veteran marshal is sent to a small town, he quickly falls for two women: a midwife and an earthy young woman nicknamed "Frisky".

Director

Somewhere Beyond Love

Somewhere Beyond Love · 1974

Somewhere Beyond Love

MovieDramaRomance

Two factory workers living in Northern Italy form a romantic connection. The woman, torn between the freedoms of the North and her traditional Sicilian values, slowly allows herself to love...

Director

Everybody Go Home!

Everybody Go Home! · 1960

Everybody Go Home!

When Italy surrenders to the Allies, part of the Italian army is dispersed and soldiers begin to return to their homes.

Director

The Cat

The Cat · 1977

MovieComedyMystery

Amedeo and Ofelia, middle aged brother and sister, own jointly an old decadent, but still attractive, condominium. They want to sell it, but before they have to evict all the tenants. Of course, these don't want to leave at all. The cat (Il Gatto), mascot and beloved by all, dies and this gives the two an excuse to enter the tenants' life. Amedeo starts to court the young Wanda and Ofelia seduces the priest Don Pezzolla. In the meantime police is looking for the cat killer...

Director

Till Marriage Do Us Part

Till Marriage Do Us Part · 1974

Till Marriage Do Us Part

In early 20th-century Sicily, Eugenia Di Maqueda and Raimondo Corrao discover on their wedding night that they are brother and sister and therefore unable to consummate their marriage. For the sake of the family inheritance and honour, the two decide not to reveal the truth to anyone. In public, they will play the part of husband and wife, but in private they will live in absolute chastity as siblings. Meanwhile, the beautiful Eugenia’s urgent carnal desires become increasingly pressing...

Director

Traffic Jam

Traffic Jam · 1979

MovieDramaComedy

A tremendous congestion hits the Rome highway ring. The biggest traffic jam ever seen lasts more than 36 hours. At the beginning the people blocked in their cars react normally. But as more time passes, the more we witness personal dramas, hysteric reactions and other grotesque situations. All the episodes are linked as if in a single plot. Cars and their hosts are a microcosm of stories part of a larger universe: the congestion.

Director

On the Tiger's Back

On the Tiger's Back · 1961

On the Tiger's Back

MovieDramaComedy

Giacinto Rossi, a poor driver up to his neck in debt, is imprisoned for simulated crime. He finds himself in a cell with Tagliabue, an unscrupulous murderer; Sorcio, an elderly thief; and Papaleo, an honor-obsessed intellectual who murdered his fiancée's lover. Giacinto is forced by the three men to make a daring escape from prison.

Story

My Wife

My Wife · 1964

Five comedic episodes, all starring Alberto Sordi and Silvana Mangano.

Director

The Sunday Woman

The Sunday Woman · 1975

The Sunday Woman

MovieCrimeMystery

Police commissioner Santamaria is investigating the murder of the ambiguous architect Mr. Garrone. The investigations soon drive him into the Torino's high society. Santamaria suspect Anna Carla and at the same time falls in love for her. Lello is the lover of Massimo, Anna Carla’s gay friend. He is following another direction in order to find out the truth, and his results are confusing the Policeman. But another murder happens...

Director

The Dolls

The Dolls · 1965

MovieComedyRomance

This semi-amusing sex (romance) comedy has four separate stories: "The Telephone Call", written by Rodolfo Sonego, directed by Dino Risi. "A Treatise on Eugenics", written by Tullio Pinelli from a story by Luciano Salce and Steno, directed by Luigi Comencini. "The Soup", written by Rodolfo Sonego and Luigi Magni, directed by Franco Rossi. "Monsignor Cupid", written by Leo Benvenuti and Piero de Bernardi from a story by Boccaccio, directed by Mauro Bolognini.

Director

The French as Seen by…

The French as Seen by… · 1988

The French as Seen by…

MovieWarDocumentary

In 1988, Figaro magazine asked a few famous directors to direct a series of short movies to celebrate the 10 years of the revue. The movies have been released for the French revolution bicentenary. Includes: Werner Herzog's Les Gaulois, David Lynch's The Cowboy and the Frenchman, Andrzej Wajda's Proust contre la déchéance, Luigi Comencini's Pèlerinage à Agen, Jean-Luc Godard's Le dernier mot.

Director

Don Camillo in Moscow

Don Camillo in Moscow · 1965

Don Camillo in Moscow

Priest Don Camillo blackmails his friendly rival Peppone into letting him join a Communist delegation visiting the Soviet Union.

Director

Miracle of Marcellino

Miracle of Marcellino · 1991

Miracle of Marcellino

In the 15th century, in a poor Italian village, the monks of a modest convent take up an abandoned baby. Unfortunately, for all their efforts, they prove unable to trace his parents. So they set up providing tender loving care to the little boy. Marcellino lives a happy life among the men of God but, as he grows up, he misses his mother more and more.

Director

Misunderstood

Misunderstood · 1967

The story of a widower and his two sons, focusing on their complex and sometimes difficult relationships.

Director

Giacomo Casanova: Childhood and Adolescence

Giacomo Casanova: Childhood and Adolescence · 1969

Giacomo Casanova: Childhood and Adolescence

MovieRomanceDrama

Through the childhood and adolescence of Signor Giacomo Casanova (from his memoirs), this is a description of how people lived in 18th-century Venice: their customs, habits, medicine, religion, and--most of all--the omnipresence of hypocrisy.

Director

Girls Marked Danger

Girls Marked Danger · 1952

Girls Marked Danger

MovieDramaCrime

In Genoa, amongst the underclass living on the fringes of the law, Machedi organises the trafficking of women, to be exploited and sent off to who knows where. One of these women is Alda, who has evaded the ring once, but when her boyfriend is arrested, finds herself back in Machedi's net.

Director

Keep It To Yourself!

Keep It To Yourself! · 1976

Keep It To Yourself!

Three episodes of casual erotic character: a porn scriptwriter and his secretary, a man locked up among homosexuals, and a shy man who decides to hire a prostitute over the phone.

Director

The Adventures of Pinocchio

The Adventures of Pinocchio · 1972

The Adventures of Pinocchio

SeriesComedyFamily

Mastro Geppetto is a poor carpenter with no wife and no children. The man is very lonely, and when trading a piece of wood with his colleague Mastero Cherry, he decides to build himself a puppet to make him company.

Director

History

History · 1986

SeriesDramaWar & Politics

The story of the half-Jewish Ida Raimundo and her two sons Antonio and Giuseppe in Rome, during and immediately after the Second World War.

Director

Cuore

Enrico Bottini, an engineering student, prepares to serve as an officer when Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary. At the train station, he meets Garrone, an old friend from elementary school, and begins to reminisce on the values instilled to him by both school and his father.

Director

L'amore in Italia

L'amore in Italia · 1978

L'amore in Italia

SeriesDocumentary

In the aftermath of major changes such as divorce and abortion laws, Luigi Comencini conducts his survey of old and young people, from the south and north, rich and poor, to tell love in its most common and most paradoxical facets according to the Italians. Thirty-two intense interviews in five episodes broadcast from November 18, 1978 on the first channel.

Director

I Bambini e Noi

I Bambini e Noi · 1970

I Bambini e Noi

SeriesDocumentary

The six episodes of the series "I bambini e noi" by Luigi Comencini (1916-2007) are a great realistic and live fresco of Italian childhood between the 60s and 70s. Aired in 1970, Comencini's work unfolds in various locations in our country, from Milan to Naples, from Umbria to Puglia, from Rome to Turin.

Director