Dino Risi Movies

Luca, a young man from a rich family, travels to Rome. Here he encounters Gino, who makes a living with petty theft.

The life and work of master Italian filmmaker Mario Monicelli (1915-2010).

After eighteen years of psychiatric care, the former bank manager Augusto Scrivani returns home from his daughter-in-law Carla. Dino Risi directs a...

In Milan, the beggar Carlone has formed a brotherhood. Carlone's sister Anna, is a poor blind girl. One day Carlone saves a mutilated, who tried to...

A group of boys calling themselves The Monte Cristo gang find a note from an innocent prisoner and set out to free him from a fortress-like prison.

Gino Bardi is a centre-forward in a football team which is about to be relegated to the second division. Just before a very important match a girl he...

This 2006 documentary was filmed on the occasion of director Dino Risi's ninetieth birthday. It features interviews with his collaborators, friends,...

The Midnight Sun Film Festival is held every June in the Finnish village of Sodankylä beyond the arctic circle — where the sun never sets....

Various generations of filmmakers talk about what cinema means for them.

The end of a love story, told in fourteen different styles: from comedy to western, from noir to thriller, silent movie and so on.

Acclaimed Ukranian dancer Svetlana Zakharova, who later became one of the youngest ballerinas in Moscow’s Bolshoi Ballet, stars in the title...

Unreleased episodes from "I Mostri" with Ugo Tognazzi as protagonist.

A story set behind the scenes of the annual Miss Italia pageant, with its load of young girls and recognizable characters.

The technical office for the renovation of Milan Cathedral - the Duomo - shows the camera the treasures of the place and the projects for the facades...

On a layover at a hotel, a young stewardess meets a handsome man. Though they do not speak a common language, they share a brief yet intense romantic...

A traveling salesman in post WWII Milan pops into a movie house and the camera searches the faces in the dark watching.