An Average Little Man

Bom in Italy in 1915. Between the 1930s and the 1940s he worked as an assistant director and screenwriter. Established an important partnership with Steno, with whom he directed films such as A Dog’s Life (1950) and Toto Looks for an Apartment (1949). With Forbidden (1954) he started directing films by himself and became a fundamental name of commedia all`italiana. His extensive filmography includes films such as The Great War (1959), winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival; The Passionate Thief (1960); The Organizer (1963); My Friends (1975); The Two Lives of Mattia Pascal (1985); Dearest Relatives, Poisonous Relations (1992, 17th Mostra) and Looking for Paradise (1995, 20th Mostra). His film An Average Little Man (1977) was shown in the retrospective of political Italian cinema at the 30th Mostra, in 2006. Died in Rome in 2010 at the age of 95.

43ª MOSTRA INTERNACIONAL DE CINEMA

43ª MOSTRA INTERNACIONAL DE CINEMA