Luigi Comencini
1916 - 2007His daughters Cristina and Francesca are both film directors.
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Le avventure di Pinocchio
Luigi Comencini
Andrea Balestri, Nino Manfredi
Mastro Geppetto is a poor carpenter with no wife and no children. The man is very lonely, and after trading a piece of wood with his colleague Mastro Ciliegia, decides to build himself a puppet to keep him company.
The Adventures of Pinocchio
Incompreso (Vita col figlio)
Luigi Comencini
Anthony Quayle, Stefano Colagrande
Andrew's brave front convinces his father that he is unaffected by his mother's death. Playmate and protector of his little brother Miles, he is often blamed when mischief goes wrong. Only when tragedy strikes does his father recognize Andrew's true qualities.
Misunderstood
La valigia dei sogni
Luigi Comencini
Umberto Melnati, Maria Pia Casilio
In the movie La valigia dei sogni (The Suitcase of Dreams, Italy, 1953) directed by Luigi Comencini, some sequences from Cenere are inserted. The protagonist is a former silent film actor who has saved old movies of his time from destruction, and uses them to set up recreational performances at schools. After an accidental fire and the risk of prison, he meets a rich producer who helps him to build a film museum.
The Suitcase of Dreams
On the Tiger's Back
Luigi Comencini
Nino Manfredi, Mario Adorf
Giacinto Rossi, a poor driver up to his neck in debt, is imprisoned for simulated crime. He finds himself in a cell with Tagliabue, an unscrupulous murderer; Sorcio, an elderly thief; and Papaleo, an honor-obsessed intellectual who murdered his fiancée's lover. Giacinto is forced by the three men to make a daring escape from prison.
On the Tiger's Back
Infanzia, vocazione e prime esperienze di Giacomo Casanova, veneziano
Luigi Comencini
Leonard Whiting, Senta Berger
Through the childhood and the adolescence of Giacomo Casanova (from his memoirs), this is a description of how people live in the Venice of the 18th century: customs, habits, medicine, religion and most of all - the omnipresence of hypocrisy. Written by Yepok
Giacomo Casanova: Childhood and Adolescence
Voltati Eugenio
Luigi Comencini
Francesco Bonelli, Saverio Marconi
The film begins when Eugenio, a 14 year old child, is conduced from his grandparents home outside Rome, to Giancarlo (his father) in the city, by Giancarlo's friend (called "Moustache"). As Eugenio is bothering Moustache, he threatens Eugenio with leaving him in the middle of the country. He finally does it. When Giancarlo finds out, they return for Eugenio, but he is now lost. Meanwhile we're told the story of the child and his relation with the family, and why he feels unwanted.
Voltati Eugenio
Somewhere Beyond Love
Luigi Comencini
Giuliano Gemma, Stefania Sandrelli
Two factory workers living in Northern Italy form a romantic connection. The woman, torn between the freedoms of the North and her traditional Sicilian values, slowly allows herself to love...
Somewhere Beyond Love
La ragazza di Bube
Luigi Comencini
Claudia Cardinale, George Chakiris
At the end of World War II, shallow, self-centered Mara is the prettiest girl in her small Italian village; Bebo is a Communist partisan who is finding it difficult to adjust to the dull banalities of life in peacetime. When Mara’s father, a passionate Communist, declares that his daughter will marry the returning hero, her reactions range from joy to bitter resentment.
Bebo's Girl
