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Showing posts with label Ettore Scola. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Ettore Scola. Show all posts

10 May 2022

Ettore Scola - screenwriter and film director

Master of dark comedy and social drama Ettore Scola is seen by some as the last of the great postwar Italian directors The screenwriter and ...

28 November 2019

Laura Antonelli - actress

Pin-up star of 1970s sex-comedies Laura Antonelli first moved to Rome to be a gymnastics teacher The actress Laura Antonelli, whose ...

5 October 2018

Alberto Sughi - painter

20th century artist who was unwitting victim of plagiarism Alberto Sughi's work was copied by a Japanese artist who had visited h...

22 March 2018

Nino Manfredi - actor and director

Totò fan became maestro of commedia all’italiana Nino Manfredi made more than 100 films in the course of his career The actor and di...

19 February 2018

Massimo Troisi – actor, writer and director

Tragic star died hours after completing finest work Troisi was only 41 when he died in 1994, hours after finishing Il Postino Ma...

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