Commedia all'italiana

Italian comedy of the sixties makes people laugh at what they should not: a Sicilian husband who arranges his wife's murder because divorce is forbidden, a gang of incompetent burglars who break through the wrong wall, a charmer who takes a shy student along in his convertible. The genre works through satire of manners, the law on honour, the economic miracle and those it left behind. Scola would end by filming a family of paupers in a Roman shanty town, with nothing likeable left.

works 5

• CinemaBread, Love and DreamsPane, amore e fantasiaLuigi Comencini · 1953The newly arrived brigadier in the town falls in love with a local girl.Cinema
• CinemaBig Deal on Madonna StreetI soliti ignotiMario Monicelli · 1958Men without a trade plan a burglary that they prepare with extreme care.Cinema
• CinemaDivorce Italian StyleDivorzio all'italianaPietro Germi · 1961In an Italy without divorce, a Sicilian baron counts on the leniency granted to crimes of honour.Cinema
• CinemaIl sorpassoDino Risi · 1962Two men with nothing in common spend two summer days on the roads in a convertible.Cinema
• CinemaUgly, Dirty and BadBrutti, sporchi e cattiviEttore Scola · 1976On the margins of Rome, a whole clan lives under the same roof and fights over the head of the family's hoard.Cinema