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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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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.
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.
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.
10 November 1978
Ugo is an old actor who feels too young to be in an "old actor's house". He just can't stand the rules of the other old people so he escapes with a young girl.
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.
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.
21 April 1966
Four comedic shorts explore quirky relationships and misadventures: a teenage girl's journey home, a self-serving babysitter, a husband confronting infidelity, and a wealthy woman's drunken escapades with her butler.
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.
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.
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.
16 September 1981
In 1860s Italy, Giorgio is a young soldier is sent to a remote post, far from his lover, Clara. Lodged with the colonel, he befriends the colonel and the local doctor.
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.
30 March 1960
Two middle-aged bachelors use the same apartment for their romantic meetings.
03 October 1956
Donatella is a simple and honest roman girl, daughter of a bookbinder and girlfriend of Guido, a gas station owner.
23 September 1976
Giacinto lives with his wife, their ten children and various other family members in a shack on the hills of Rome.
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.
20 December 1974
An army cadet accompanies an irascible, blind captain on a week-long trip from Turin to Naples.
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.
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.
15 December 1977
A collection of dark-humoured vignettes, including tales of a cardinal with a liberal congregation, a motorist and a hitchhiker, mentally challenged tramps, parents contemplating their daughter's participation in a pornographic film, and a conniving husband.
07 September 1989
Ensemble comedy about four friends in their 40s.
23 December 1970
Three episodes. Episode 1 - The Refrigerator (Monicelli). A married couple of two poor emigrant workers spend almost all their money to buy a refrigerator (a must in the '70s).
15 November 1973
The lives of two local professional dancers change suddenly as American soldiers stop in their town hoping to be entertained in accordance with the Broadway style.
01 December 1987
Formal portraits, bookends in this 80-year saga, enclose the central story, which opens with the baptism of Carlo, a baby in his grandfather's lap, and ends with Carlo as a grandfather with a baby in his arms.
19 October 1964
Andrea Artusi is a successful businessman with a beautiful wife, Maria, and a happy marriage - until he has an affair.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
11 February 1960
Nicola Carletti is a middle age 50-year old man who return to Italy with his family but he is drafted to go to the mandatory military service in Italy.
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.
06 November 1981
Sandro is a Roman adrift in Venice during the Carnival. After sixteen years of marriage, Sandro can no longer reconcile his spontaneous and lively character with that of his wife Laura, a cultured and composed Venetian woman.
19 December 1973
A nine-episode anthology film about love, sex, and marriage in contemporary, mid-'70s Italy.
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.
24 October 1985
An American businessman returns to Italy for the first time in four decades, only to discover that an old girlfriend of his, along with her brother, have involved him in a massive hoax.
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.
29 September 1967
A man is delighted to hear that his wife is pregnant and he begins to prepare for the wonders of fatherhood.
21 October 1965
A black comedy anthology about three ordinary men who become involved in violent crimes: a teacher, obsessed with the idea that his wife is unfaithful, goes to a shrink; a wife has her husband dress himself with a comic character costume; and a man has to spend the night in a mysterious hotel after his car breaks down.
19 May 1989
A unique set: a Roman apartment with a small garden, six characters on stage, but never all together, four men and two women, theater actors.
