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Ruggero Maccari (28 June 1919 – 8 May 1989) was an Italian screenwriter.
Specially known by his collaboration with film director and screenwriter Ettore Scola. He wrote Commedia all'italiana films such as The Easy Life, Brutti sporchi e cattivi, or Adua e le compagne.
He was nominated to the Academy Award for Dino Risi's Profumo di donna.
He won a David di Donatello for Ettore Scola's La famiglia; and he was a 4 time Nastro d'Argento winner for La famiglia, Scola's Passione d'amore and A Special Day, and Antonio Pietrangeli's Io la conoscevo bene.
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01 April 1954
The adventures of Roberto, an heroic Italian soldier from Trieste during World War One.
24 September 1963
Giulio has a faithful wife and a true friend, but he is convinced that only with money can one be happy.
23 December 1992
Charlie Simms is a student at a private preparatory school who comes from a poor family. To earn the money for his flight home to Gresham, Oregon for Christmas, Charlie takes a job over Thanksgiving looking after retired U.
29 July 1961
A soldier has his horse stolen on his wedding day and spends the first day of his honeymoon looking for it.
21 November 1963
Two surreal/satirical comedy episodes.
22 August 1958
A psychiatric-clinic medical director runs some tests on two patients, the Ragionier Antonio Vignanelli and Cavalier Peppino Caprioli, so they must retrieve some memories of family life in order to understand their mental illness.
21 February 1952
A cook from Sardinia who had emigrated to Milan goes back to his native island thinking he has inherited some money with his uncles death.
15 March 1973
A humble Milanese window-cleaner with dreams of magazine and TV fame accuses himself of the murder of a soprano from La Scala.
12 September 1951
Two friends, Giacomino and Carletto, have no job and no money and are looking for a job, or any device that will help them to meet expenses and especially will give them the opportunity to fill their stomachs.
15 October 1952
Four poor fellows win a luxurious car in a lottery but they have not the money to keep it. Therefore they decide to have it a day each and sell it afterwards.
28 December 1954
Cesare Mancini is a tram driver who lives in Bologna. One day he accidentally hits a woman on a bicycle, the accident costs Cesare the relegation to a ticket seller.
08 December 1951
Two two-bit singers become thieves to make ends meet. One day during a theft in the house of a music impresario they hear Marco an electrician gifted with a beautiful voice and give him some money to help for his debut as a singer.
15 February 1968
In this comedy, a guru’s groupie plans to seduce him so she can number him among her many conquests.
10 November 1951
The love story between Don Camillo's protégé and Don Violante's niece adds fuel to the rivalry between the two priests.
24 December 1958
Lello, a painter, and Mario, a singer, move to Rome looking for fortune and success.
29 December 1964
Don Giuliano Niccolini Borges, Roman prince and member of the Pontifical Noble Guard, is very much attracted to Jane, an English girl he has met that is accompanying him on a pleasure trip to Switzerland.
28 March 1964
Vittorio Gassman stars as different characters in each of the nine episodes of this unusual Italian comedy.
04 February 1954
Sophia Loren plays a dual role, as both the sultry Queen of the Nile with a "man-a-night" appetite and a beautiful slave girl who takes her place and is wooed by a bodyguard who thinks she's the real monarch.
17 April 1969
Seven sketches including the title sketch "I See Naked" in which a fashion editor begins to see naked women everywhere he goes.
28 December 1955
Sunday is the only day off that house maids use to date the young men who cross their paths: doormen, soldiers, sailors, timid virgins and lurid husbands, or even a doctor.
12 January 1979
A tremendous congestion hits the Rome highway ring. The biggest traffic jam ever seen lasts more than 36 hours.
27 September 1952
The adventures of Hamlet who, following many adventures, manages to kill Claudio the usurper, marry Ophelia and be elected President of the Republic.
22 January 1964
Four different directors present lighthearted stories about married Italian couples and their dilemmas with jealousy, sex and love.
05 December 1962
Roberto, a shy law student in Rome, meets Bruno, a forty-year-old exuberant, capricious man, who takes him for a drive through the Roman and Tuscany countries in the summer.
10 April 1959
Mr. Pezzella owns and operates a well-established luxury-clothing store. He does not like and does not consider it right to pay taxes and therefore uses a tax consultant to be able to evade more taxes.
03 October 1956
Donatella is a simple and honest roman girl, daughter of a bookbinder and girlfriend of Guido, a gas station owner.
28 November 1969
Giordano is a young man from Milan who accepts a ride from a trio of Americans (an "open" couple and a homosexual) sightseeing in Italy.
21 December 1974
A struggling chef and a kind-hearted thief form an unlikely bond on the streets of Rome, finding hope and a chance to rebuild their lives together.
17 April 1954
Eugene, a young nobleman, asks two penniless idlers to impersonate his noble relatives to help him marry Gemma, the daughter of an enriched cook.
18 August 1952
Tino Scotti plays a man who is tricked into trying to kill himself. When all his attempts fail, he is believed to be immortal.
18 September 1964
An italian film producer travels to Argentina with part of the crew to a Film Festival contest.
16 March 1971
A pimp is suspected of murdering his lover. He is convicted based on the testimony of a single witness.
16 September 1953
Naples/Sorrento, mid 20s. A couple of small thieves conceive a scam whereby one of them dresses up as a eunuch Turk to care for the women of the family of a wealthy man.
09 October 1952
Achille Scorzella, a poor, unemployed and hungry devil, having been mistaken for a piano tuner, happens in the home of some new riches.
07 September 1989
Ensemble comedy about four friends in their 40s.
26 September 1952
The Passaguai family is living peacefully, but then they go to see the magician Bhorman, starting a series of problem for them.
06 February 1976
This slight skewering of the mindset of the Fascist era when Italy’s “White Telephone” films (conservative minded sophisticated comedy-dramas revolving around the bourgeoisie) were in vogue gives Agostina Belli her best role – an ambitious Venetian girl that goes from chambermaid to prostitute to singer to film-star to mistress of ‘Il Duce’! – for which she received a special David Di Donatello award, the Italian equivalent of the Oscar.
06 October 1954
Everyday all kind of people pass through a Police Station, especially if it is downtown. Today, however, the chief of police has bought his first car and he has decided to test it with his wife going to Ostia.
16 September 1981
In the 1860's, Giorgio (Giraudeau), a young Italian soldier is sent to a remote post, far away from his lover, Clara (Antonelli).
07 March 1952
To get ahead after he answers a newspaper ad for a business proposition, Passaguai borrows the more impressive apartment of a retired actor and arranges an elaborate luncheon there.
30 August 1957
Alberto, a newspaper man, tries a one-time shot of living the good life with the help of his penniless mentor.
20 December 1951
When Passaguai family patriarch Giuseppe (Fabrizi) decides to take advantage of a corporate discount to bring his wife (Ninchi) and children to spend a Sunday at the beach of Fiumicino, a series of troubles begins for everyone, in the form of a comic nightmare.
21 December 1966
Two devils from Hell are sent to Earth to cause trouble. Belfagor and his faithful sidekick Adramalek must start a war between Rome and Florence in 1478.
25 July 1958
Cesare, from Rome, and Mimì, from Naples, don't agree with their children marriage, so the young couple runs away from their home.
26 March 1952
An old gentleman, a direct descendant of Zorro, has a single son named Raimundo in whom there is no trace of proud pride.
11 August 1977
Two neighbours — a persecuted journalist and a resigned housewife — forge a strong bond on the day of Adolf Hitler's historic 1938 visit to Rome.
23 September 1976
Giacinto lives with his wife, their ten children and various other family members in a shack on the hills of Rome.
16 March 1955
A lawyer, married but temporarily alone at home, finds himself in the house a beautiful lady who tries to escape from her jealous husband.
21 December 1983
In a French nightclub, choreographed song and dance routines are performed, rather than a streamlined narrative.
30 August 1954
An inhabitant of the Moon, crashed on the Earth due to the violent shock caused by an atomic experiment, remains amazed by the discovery of this planet and gives life to a puppet, begging him to introduce him into the world of men.
10 September 1960
A doctor unwittingly drinks an aphrodisiac fluid and thus has relationships with an acquaintance's wife.
11 February 1960
Gerardo, an aspiring actor, trying unsuccessfully to cross over from comedy to tragedy, is involved, due to his ability to mimic dialects of Italy, in a scam concocted by Lallo against a rich cloth-merchant.
04 September 1954
A poor farmer is invited to the King's court and tries to prevent the princess' marriage to a villanious knight.
23 November 1951
A rich American arrives in a little village in the mountains because he wants to advertise a drink he produces.
30 December 1955
Paolo Anselmi is a happily single man. He lives in a flat with a friend but is forced to leave when the friend gets married.
21 April 1962
In this satire inspired by Nikolai Gogol’s The Government Inspector (aka The Inspector General) and transported to fascist era Italy, the (supposed) incognito visit of a Roman fascist official to a tiny country town shakes deeply the ruling class and their lack of integrity.
22 December 1965
A group of Italians take a flight to Sweden: among them there are the tourists, and the immigrants.
29 October 1952
While recuperating from their injuries in a hospital, three young women flash back to the events leading up to the catastrophe.
