Directing
Jun 7, 1916
Salò, Brescia, Lombardy, Italy
Luigi Comencini
Directing
Biography
Luigi Comencini (8 June 1916, Salò – 6 April 2007) was an Italian film director. Together with Dino Risi, Ettore Scola and Mario Monicelli, he was considered among the masters of the commedia all'italiana genre. His daughters Cristina and Francesca are both film directors. Description above from the Wikipedia article Luigi Comencini,licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Feature Films (4)
By presenting archive footage along with his own life story, filmmaker Gabriele Salvatores mediates an illustration of the economic boom in Italy during the 1960s.
1960
Christina and Francesca Comencini go on a pilgrimage to Agen, France to find the places where there Dad Luigi Comencini spent his childhood.
Pilgrimage to Agen
A portrait of Italy observed through the eyes of teenagers who talk about the places they live in and imagine themselves, torn between the opportunities that surround them, the dream of what they want to become, the fear of failing, the trials they hope to overcome.
Futura
A documentary feature film about Vittorio De Sica, one of the greatest masters of world cinema. Through a new access to his family, rare archives and testimonies of contemporary artists and filmmakers from the entire world, the ilm retraces his life, his work and legacy. An intimate portrait of an author able to transform the observation of the real in an universal emotion and reveals the modernity of a gaze which keeps on illuminating cinema and our way of seeing the world.
Vittorio De Sica: Staging Life
Television & Series (5)
Marcello Mastroianni, Isabelle Adjani, Alain Delon, Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen... the biggest stars in cinema were welcomed by Christian Defaye on his show Spécial cinéma. Between intimate confessions from actors and immersion in the world of the greatest filmmakers, Christian Defaye took viewers on a journey into the fascinating world of cinema for nearly thirty years.
Spécial cinéma
The six episodes of the series "I bambini e noi" by Luigi Comencini (1916-2007) are a great realistic and live fresco of Italian childhood between the 60s and 70s. Aired in 1970, Comencini's work unfolds in various locations in our country, from Milan to Naples, from Umbria to Puglia, from Rome to Turin.
