Luigi Comencini Movies

A widowed, baptized Catholic half-Jewish woman in Rome is raped by a young German soldier in early 1941. She becomes pregnant and gives birth to a boy who grows up alongside his 16-year-old half-brother, who is enthusiastic about Mussolini's fascist ideas. A film adaptation of a novel that...

A man has problems connecting with his son after coming home from work in Africa, after his wife's death.

Set in 1960, the year of the Rome Olympics, a 13 year-old boy with aspirations to become an athlete befriends an ageing, disabled bus driver who understands his ambitions.

Four criminals commit a robbery at a soccer stadium, and then split up to try to hide separately from the police.

Documentary filmed in the judicial asylum of Aversa which testifies to the systems of care still based on violence and segregation.

The film follows the struggles of an idealistic Catholic politician.

The film begins when Eugenio, a 14 year old child, is conduced from his grandparents home outside Rome, to Giancarlo (his father) in the city, by Giancarlo's friend (called "Moustache"). As Eugenio is bothering Moustache, he threatens Eugenio with leaving him in the middle of the country. He...

A war hero turned unemployed is hired by a British man whose life he saved during the war, for a secret mission: to kill a neo-nazi.

Intended as a light farce this comedy by Luigi Commencini is a little plodding in its story about a bank manager who has had it with his buttoned-down, boring job. One Monday he can no longer face the tedium of both his work and his life and so he stays home and rebels by playing with toys and...

Omnibus film with individual segments directed by Renato Castellani, Luigi Comencini and Franco Rossi; all of them starring the radiant Catherine Spaak as "out of place" women longing for love, in a Sicillian village, a monastery, and a modern Italian urban setting, respectively.

In the summer, while their wives and children are away, four men try to enjoy their free time.

This is a very light comedy involving multiple love triangles (or really more complicated geometries) of confused, mismatched, or ambivalent lovers. The script includes witty dialogue and humorous situations; most of all on display is the ridiculousness of the human compulsion to pair up.

In the movie La valigia dei sogni (The Suitcase of Dreams, Italy, 1953) directed by Luigi Comencini, some sequences from Cenere are inserted. The protagonist is a former silent film actor who has saved old movies of his time from destruction, and uses them to set up recreational performances at...

Christina and Francesca Comencini go on a pilgrimage to Agen, France to find the places where there Dad Luigi Comencini spent his childhood.

A social document of children, against the background of post WWII Milan.

Among old films sent to pulp, the fortunate discovery of nitrates in country farmhouses and the rediscovered treasures of silent cinema, the work of safeguarding and conservation of the Italian Film Library in Milan.

Luigi Comencini interviews children from different Italian regions and different social conditions, but mainly the poorest, visiting them in the outskirts of large cities or in the countryside.

Luigi Comencini interviews children from different Italian regions and different social conditions, but mainly the poorest, visiting them in the outskirts of large cities or in the countryside.