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Mario Camerini
Writer 1895 - 1981

Mario Camerini

Roma, Lazio, Italy

Mario Camerini (Rome, 6 February 1895 – Gardone Riviera, 4 February 1981) was an Italian film director. Cousin of Augusto Genina. He made the most known films in Italy during the 30's, comedies, most of them, starring Vittorio De Sica. Description above from the Wikipedia... Read full bio →

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Don Camillo e i giovani d'oggi

Don Camillo e i giovani d'oggi

Mario Camerini 1972 1h 51m

Mayor Peppone might very well lose the elections and Don Camillo makes sure that the mayor's delinquent son gets his act together while his own niece makes Peppone think she is pregnant by his son.

War and Peace

War and Peace

King Vidor 1956 3h 28m 6.1

Napoleon's tumultuous relations with Russia, including his disastrous 1812 invasion, serve as the backdrop for the tangled personal lives of two aristocratic families.

Ulisse

Ulisse

Mario Camerini 1954 1h 40m 6.8

A movie adaptation of Homer's second epic, that talks about Ulysses' efforts to return to his home after the end of ten years of war.

Gli eroi della domenica

Gli eroi della domenica

Mario Camerini 1952 1h 38m 3.0

Gino Bardi is a centre-forward in a football team which is about to be relegated to the second division. Just before a very important match a girl he has a relationship with proposes him to rig it. He refuses the offer but he actually begins playing like an amateur and the crowd begin to smell something fishy going on.

I promessi sposi

I promessi sposi

Mario Camerini 1941 1h 52m

Renzo and Lucia's love story is jeopardized by Don Rodrigo, a wicked nobleman, who is interested in Lucia. When she refuses his attentions he has her kidnapped and brought to a convent whose prioress is a nun as wicked as he is. The two youths will have to go through a lot of misfortunes before being reunited and being able to marry.

Il signor Max

Il signor Max

Mario Camerini 1939 1h 22m 7.3

Gianni è un modesto edicolante romano. Ogni anno, coi soldi risparmiati, si concede un viaggetto godere della bella vita locale. In occasione di una visita a Napoli, viene scambiato per un noto viveur, il signor Max Veraldo.

Darò un milione

Darò un milione

Mario Camerini 1935 1h 19m

A comedy about a hobo and a millionaire who swap roles after the millionaire rescues the hobo from a suicide attempt.

Gli uomini, che mascalzoni...

Gli uomini, che mascalzoni...

Mario Camerini 1932 1h 7m

Bruno, a chauffeur having some problem in keeping a job, meets one morning Mariuccia, a taxi driver’s daughter working as a perfumery’s shop assistant, and trying to impress her, pretending to be rich, uses his employer’s car to took her on a trip to the lakes, but things don’t work as planned and to conquer Mariuccia’s hearth won’t be so easy…

Rotaie

Rotaie

Mario Camerini 1929 1h 8m

A young honeymooning couple are lured away to a seaside resort by a high-society sleazeball, who has plans to seduce the girl, while at the same time her hubby in desperation stakes all his money on the roulette wheels.

Cirano di Bergerac

Cirano di Bergerac

Augusto Genina 1925 1h 53m 6.0

Cyrano de Begerac is joyous, witty, a poet, a leader and filled with plenty of charisma and bravado in 17th Century France. He has only one flaw: an unusually long nose which makes him unattractive to any woman. Thus, he cannot have the woman he loves, his cousin Roxanne.

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