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Il vedovo
| Name | Il Vedovo |
|---|---|
| Caption | Soundtrack |
| Director | Dino Risi |
| Writer | Rodolfo Sonego Fabio Carpi Sandro Continenza Dino Verde Dino Risi |
| Starring | Alberto Sordi Franca Valeri Livio Lorenzon Leonora Ruffo |
| Music | Armando Trovajoli |
| Cinematography | Luciano Trasatti |
| Editing | Alberto Gallitti |
| Released | 1959] |
| Runtime | 100 minutes |
| Country | |
| Language | Italian |
Il Vedovo is a 1959 Italian comedy film directed by Dino Risi.
Plot
Alberto Nardi (Alberto Sordi) is a Roman businessman who fancies himself a man of great capabilities, but whose factory (producing lifts and elevators) tethers perennially on the brink of catastrophe.Alberto is married to a rich and successful businesswoman from Milan, Elvira Almiraghi (Franca Valeri) who has a no-nonsense attitude and barely tolerates the attempts of her husband to keep his factory afloat with her money.
Alberto tries to "keep up" with his wife and her rich and successful friends but he only manages to ridicule himself. Amused by his antics Elvira publicly treats her husband as a silly clown, confident that he'll never leave her in the hope of profiting from her fortune.
One day a train where Elvira was supposed to be traveling (to pay visit to her old mother) suffers a horrible accident falling off a bridge and no survivors are reported.
Alberto is overjoyed and in a veritable ecstatic rush plans to liquidate most of Elvira's assets, brings his mistress in her country villa and starts dreaming of a bright future only to be frustrated when Elvira appears alive and well: a last-minute phone call from his own accountant and handyman (Marquis Stucchi) prevented her from boarding the doomed train.
Frustration and anger throw Alberto in a nervous breakdown from which he emerges with a diabolic plan: sabotage the elevator in the attic where he lives with Elvira to have her killed and inherit her fortune for good.
The German engineer working in his factory agrees with Nardi's plan and with the help of unlikely accomplices like Marquis Stucchi and his own uncle (who acts as Alberto's chauffer) the murderous project is set in motion, with an unintended and tragicomical result. The movie is a splendid example of the commedia all'italiana which Risi directs on an unusually black register where Sordi depicts an outrageously sleazy character (arrogant to his subjects, megalomaniac, a bigoted unrepentant fascist who yet longs for recognition from the businessmen who envies). It is also interesting as a period piece, showing the contradictions and miseries lying behind Italy's postwar economic miracle.
References
External links
Category:1959 films Category:1950s comedy films Category:Films set in Italy Category:Italian films Category:Italian-language films Category:Black-and-white films Category:Films directed by Dino Risi Category:Commedia all'italiana
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Alberto Sordi
| Name | Alberto Sordi |
|---|---|
| Birth date | June 15, 1920 |
| Birth place | Rome |
| Death date | February 25, 2003 |
| Death place | Rome |
| Other names | Albertone |
| Website | http://albertosordi.it |
Early life
Born in Rome to a schoolteacher and a musician, Sordi enrolled in Milan's dramatic arts academy but was kicked out because of his thick Roman accent. It was his accent that would later prove to be his trademark.Career
In a career that spanned seven decades, Sordi established himself as an icon of Italian cinema with his representative skills at both comedy and light drama. His movie career began in the late 1930s with bit parts and secondary characters in wartime movies. After the war he began working as a dubber for the Italian versions of Laurel and Hardy shorts, voicing Oliver Hardy. Early roles included Fellini's The White Sheik in 1952, Fellini's I vitelloni (1953), a movie about young slackers, in which he plays a weak, effeminate immature loafer and a starring role in Lo scapolo (The Bachelor) playing a single man trying to find love. In 1959 he appeared in Monicelli's The Great War, considered by many critics and film historians to be one of the best Italian comedies. The Hollywood Foreign Press recognized his abilities when he was awarded a Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture Actor in a Musical or Comedy for Il diavolo (1963). Sordi acted alongside Britain’s David Niven in the World War II comedy The Best of Enemies and in 1965 he was in another highly regarded comedy, I complessi (Complexes).Sordi also succeeded in dramatic roles, most notably in 1977's Un borghese piccolo piccolo (An Average Little Man) in which he portrays an elderly whose son is killed in an armed robbery, and sets out to exact revenge.
In 1984, he directed and co-scripted Tutti dentro (Off to jail, everybody), in which he played a judge who has warrants for corruption served on ministers and businessmen. Alberto Sordi was really masterful in two broad roles: one being the one of the underdog, militating against injustices and prevarications, the other that of the prevaricator himself. One has only to watch his performances as the returning emigrant unjustly convicted in Detenuto in attesa di giudizio or the miserly sub-proletarian of Lo scopone scientifico teased by the old millionaire Bette Davis into endless card games where he hopes to find release from his poverty to appreciate his skills in the first role, while the rampant, unscrupulous doctor he plays in Il medico della mutua is the perfect example of his aptness at rendering characters who were both truly despicable and completely believable. In 1985, he was a memeber of the jury at the 35th Berlin International Film Festival.
Sordi died shortly before his eighty-third birthday following a heart attack. A crowd in excess of a million gathered to pay their last respects at his funeral by the Basilica of St. John Lateran, the largest of such event ever attended in Rome, second only to that of Pope John Paul II who died two years later.
Filmography
Actor
Director
Voice actor in Italian-language versions
Theatre
Actor
Composer and singer
Awards
Sordi won seven David di Donatello, Italy's most prestigious film award, holding the record of David di Donatello as best actor, and four awards for his works from the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists. He also received a Golden Lion for lifetime achievement at the Venice Film Festival in 1995, and The Golden Globe Award for his performance as an Italian labourer stranded in Sweden in To Bed or Not to Bed. In 1999, the city of Rome made him honorary mayor for a day to celebrate his eightieth birthday.At the 22nd Berlin International Film Festival, he won the Silver Bear for Best Actor award for Detenuto in attesa di giudizio.
References
External links
Category:1920 births Category:2003 deaths Category:Deaths from myocardial infarction Category:People from Rome (city) Category:Best Musical or Comedy Actor Golden Globe (film) winners Category:Italian actors Category:Italian film directors Category:Italian voice actors
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Dino Risi
| Bgcolour | silver |
|---|---|
| Name | Dino Risi |
| Birth date | December 23, 1916 |
| Birth place | Milan, Italy |
| Death date | June 07, 2008 |
| Death place | Rome, Italy |
| Years active | 1946 - 2002 |
| Cesarawards | Best Foreign Film 1976 Profumo di donna |
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.
He died on June 7, 2008 at his residence in Rome. He was 91 and is survived by two children, Claudio and Marco.
Filmography
:See also :Category:Films directed by Dino RisiReferences
External links
Category:1916 births Category:2008 deaths Category:César Award winners Category:Italian film directors Category:People from Milan
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Franca Valeri
| Imagesize | 150px | |
|---|---|
| Name | Franca Valeri |
| Birthdate | July 31, 1920 |
| Birth place | Milan, Lombardy, Italy |
| Birthname | Alma Franca Maria Norsa |
Franca Valeri (born 31 July 1920) is an Italian actress.
Valeri was born in Milan as Alma Franca Maria Norsa. She adopted her surname in the 1950s as an homage to the French critic and poet, Paul Valéry.
Despite the old age and suffering Parkinson's disease, she's still very active on the Italian theatrical stage. Across the season 2005-2006 she performed her own monologue La Vedova Socrate ("Socrate's Widow") and Les Bonnes, by Jean Genet.
Valeri started her career on the radio, where she created the character of "Signorina Cesira" and "Signora Cecioni", exhilarating sketches centering on the idiosyncrasies of the Italy of 1950s. She co-starred important films hits, such as The Sign of Venus or Il vedovo, although most of her characters are supporting role.
In the 1960s Valeri also frequently worked for Italian TV. Directed by Antonello Falqui, she starred in Studio Uno, Le divine and Sabato Sera.
In the eighties and early nineties she starred in a series of successful commercials for Pandoro Melegatti, which were well-received and stretched over a number of years (Pandoro being a seasonal product tied to the Christmas holidays).
In January 2008, she played the role of "Solange" in Jean Genet's "Le bonnes" at Milan's Piccolo Teatro.
Filmography
External links
Category:1920 births Category:Living people Category:People from Milan Category:Italian film actors Category:Italian actors
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Nando Bruno
| Name | Nando Bruno |
|---|---|
| Birthname | Fernando Bruno |
| Birth date | October 06, 1895 |
| Birth place | Florence, Italy |
| Death date | April 11, 1963 |
| Death place | Bracciano, Italy |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Yearsactive | 1938 - 1961 |
Nando Bruno (6 October 1895 – 11 April 1963) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 84 films between 1938 and 1961.
He was born in Florence, Italy and died in Bracciano, Italy.
Selected filmography
External links
Category:1895 births Category:1963 deaths Category:Italian film actors
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