Mario Monicelli(1915-2010)

Writer
Director
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

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Mario Monicelli

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Under the Tuscan Sun

Mario Monicelli was born on 16 May 1915 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was a writer and director, known for Les camarades (1963), Pourvu que ce soit une fille (1986) and Le pigeon (1958). He was married to Antonella Salerni. He died on 29 November 2010 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

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Nominated for 2 Oscars
- 35 wins & 28 nominations total

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Known for

Marcello Mastroianni, Annie Girardot, François Périer, and Renato Salvatori in Les camarades (1963)

8.0

Writer(as Monicelli)

1963

Pourvu que ce soit une fille (1986)

Pourvu que ce soit une fille

6.6

Writer

1986

Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale, Vittorio Gassman, Memmo Carotenuto, Carla Gravina, Tiberio Murgia, Carlo Pisacane, Rossana Rory, Renato Salvatori, and Totò in Le pigeon (1958)

7.9

Writer

1958

Un bourgeois tout petit, petit (1977)

Un bourgeois tout petit, petit

7.8

Writer

1977

Credits

Writer

La nuova armata Brancaleone
6.3
Short
- credit only
- 2010
Le rose del deserto
6.5
- Writer
- 2006
Come quando fuori piove
6.3
TV Mini Series
- Writer
- 2000
Panni sporchi
5.4
- writer
- 1999
Facciamo paradiso
5.5
- Writer
- 1995
Un amico magico: il maestro Nino Rota
6.2
- writer
- 1994
Cari fottutissimi amici
6.6
- Writer
- 1994
Une famille formidable
7.3
- Writer
- 1992
Rossini! Rossini!
5.9
- story and screenplay
- 1991
Il male oscuro
6.4
- screenplay (uncredited)
- 1990
Une catin pour deux larrons
6.4
- screenplay
- story
- 1987
Pourvu que ce soit une fille
6.6
- screenplay
- 1986
La double vie de Mathias Pascal
6.8
- screenplay
- 1985
Bertoldo, Bertoldino e Cacasenno
6.5
- Writer
- 1984
Mes chers amis 2
7.6
- writer
- 1982

Director

La nuova armata Brancaleone
6.3
Short
- Director (credit only)
- 2010
Vicino al Colosseo c'è Monti
6.5
Short
- Director
- 2008
Le rose del deserto
6.5
- Director
- 2006
Firenze, il nostro domani
5.2
- Director
- 2003
Lettere dalla Palestina
6.2
- Director
- 2003
La primavera del 2002 - L'Italia protesta, l'Italia si ferma
4.8
Video
- Director
- 2002
Un altro mondo è possibile
6.4
- Director
- 2001
Come quando fuori piove
6.3
TV Mini Series
- Director
- 2000
Panni sporchi
5.4
- Director
- 1999
Topi di appartamento
Short
- Director
- 1997
I corti italiani
4.9
- Director (segment "Topi di appartamento")
- 1997
Exercices de style
4.6
- Director (segment "Idillio edile")
- 1996
The Royal Affair
4.8
- Director
- 1995
Facciamo paradiso
5.5
- Director
- 1995
Un amico magico: il maestro Nino Rota
6.2
- Director
- 1994

Second Unit or Assistant Director

La beauté d'Hippolyte
6.0
- assistant director
- 1962
Furia
3.8
- assistant director
- 1947
Le baiser fatal
5.9
- assistant director
- 1947
Le Témoin
6.7
- assistant director
- 1946
Cortocircuito
- assistant director
- 1943
Pazzo d'amore
- assistant director
- 1942
Finalmente soli
5.5
- assistant director
- 1942
Brivido
- assistant director
- 1941
Le chevalier noir
- assistant director
- 1941
La granduchessa si diverte
- assistant director
- 1940
Il documento
- assistant director
- 1939
Equatore
- assistant director
- 1939
Terra di nessuno
- assistant director
- 1939
Fascino
- assistant director
- 1939
I fratelli Castiglioni
5.5
- assistant director
- 1937

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Under the Tuscan Sun

Under the Tuscan Sun

Personal details

Alternative names
- Michele Badiek
Height
- 1.78 m
Born
- May 16, 1915
- Rome, Lazio, Italy
Died
- November 29, 2010
- Rome, Lazio, Italy(suicide)
Spouse
- Antonella Salerni(divorced, 2 children)
Children
Parents
Relatives
Publicity listings
- 1 Interview
- 1 Article

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Trivia
Monicelli died on November 29, 2010 at the age of 95, after committing suicide by jumping from a window of the San Giovanni hospital in Rome, where he was admitted a few days earlier for prostate cancer.

Quotes
The themes that make one laugh always stem from poverty, hunger, misery, old age, sickness, and death. These are the themes that make Italians laugh, anyway.

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