Dino Risi Movies

A film of Enrico Berlinguer's funeral in Rome, briefly tracing his career as leader of the Italian Communist Party.

Three episodes about Italian husbands and their relationships.

Giordano is a young man from Milan who accepts a ride from a trio of Americans (an "open" couple and a homosexual) sightseeing in Italy. The husband...

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

The movie is about the celebrated trial of Olga Duvovich, very beautiful woman accused of killing her husband, a wealthy financier.

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.

Stylish, sophisticated and absolutely broke, Dino and Maria pursue a romance until they realize neither of them has any money, which forces the gold...

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

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

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

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

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

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

In the Tigullio region near Gênes this shortdocumentary shows the funeral of a local fisherman.