Dino Risi

Dino Risi 23 December 1916 7 June 2008 was an Italian film director With Mario Monicelli Luigi Comencini Nanni Loy and Ettore Scola he was one of the masters of Commedia allitaliana He was born in Milan Risi started his career in cinema as an assistant director to cinema figures such as Mario Soldati and Alberto Lattuada Later he began directing his own films and was credited with giving early opportunities to future acting stars such as Sophia Loren and Vittorio Gassman His 1966 film Treasure of San Gennaro was entered into the 5th Moscow International Film Festival where it won a Silver Prize His biggest hits were Poor But Handsome Poveri ma belli followed by two sequels which he also directed A Difficult Life Una vita difficile The Easy Life Il sorpasso Opiate 67 or in a cut version 15 From Rome I Mostri and Scent Of A Woman Profumo di Donna which was remade by Martin Brest starring Al Pacino in 1992 In 2002 he was awarded the Golden Lion Honorary Award Leone doro alla carriera at the Venice Film Festival for his lifetime work Two of his films Il giovedì and Il commissario Lo Gatto were shown in a retrospective section on Italian comedy at the 67th Venice International Film Festival He died on 7 June 2008 at his residence in Rome He was 91 and is survived by two children Claudio and Marco film directorfrom Wikipedia