Dino Risi

Dino Risi was born in Milan. A graduate in medicine, he did not practise and became, in the early 1940s, assistant to Mario Soldati and then to Alberto Lattuada. A refugee in Switzerland during the war, he afterwards made short films and documentaries, then directed his first feature film in the early 1950s. He counts among the masters of Italian-style comedy. His sons Claudio and Marco in turn became directors. He died in Rome in 2008.

In the catalogue 2

• CinemaA Difficult LifeUna vita difficileDino Risi · 1961Cinema
• CinemaIl sorpassoDino Risi · 1962Cinema