Franco Fabrizi

  • Dino Risi – Una Vita difficile AKA A Difficult Life (1961)

    1961-1970ComedyDino RisiDramaItaly

    Synopsis:
    In this slow-starting but effective drama, comedian Alberto Sordi changes hats to play Silvio Magnozzi, a man so dedicated to his high moral standards that he loses out on most of the things he wants in life -including his wife. He watches while others march up the ladder of success way ahead of him, sometimes by hypocritically licking the boots of their superiors or doing just anything at all to attain advancement. After his death grip on his principles causes his wife to walk out, Silvio relents and starts to live like others. Now he is supposedly happily residing on Easy Street, his wife is back — and so what is bugging him?
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  • Luciano Emmer – Camilla (1954)

    1951-1960ComedyDramaItalyLuciano Emmer

    Camilla, a middle-aged Venetian widow, arrives in Rome to take up service as a maid with the Rossetti family, made up of Mario, a doctor, his wife Giovanna and their children Andrea and Cristina. The economic conditions of the Rossetti are not flourishing and this causes tensions and disagreements.Read More »

  • Jean-Gabriel Albicocco – Le rat d’Amérique (1963)

    1961-1970DramaFranceJean-Gabriel Albicocco


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    This South American adventure drama finds Charles (Charles Aznavour), a youthful
    Frenchman traveling to Paraguay to start a new life. Seeking out a rich uncle, the
    idealistic nephew is rejected by his miserly relation, and he goes on to get involved with
    a shady woman and a band of gun runners who supply arms for the revolution of the
    week. Charles and his new girlfriend head for the border after a shootout with federal
    troops, and a kindly railroad worker hides the couple in an abandoned copper mine.
    Charles is later thrown in prison while the girl becomes a concubine, but her violator is
    killed when Charles escapes to rescue her and exact revenge. A pretty harrowing
    composition could be written by the young couple on “How I Spent My Summer
    Vacation.” ~ Dan Pavlides, RoviRead More »

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