ROME (AP) — Deftly mixing comedy with tragedy, director Mario Monicelli laid bare Italy's flaws and sins for a half-century on the screen. In his final script of his own life, he chose a ...

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MILAN – A five-floor fall from the San Giovanni hospital in Rome was the final act in the life of Mario Monicelli, last of the great maestros of the Italian cinema. At about 9 pm on Monday ...

One of the best bumbling heist films ever made is Big Deal on Madonna Street, directed by Mario Monicelli, one of the most recognizable Italian directors of his generation. The comedy classic that ...

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One of the greats of post-war Italian cinema, Mario Monicelli, has killed himself by jumping out of a hospital window. Monicelli, 95, was dubbed the "father of Italian comedy" for directing films ...

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Filmmaker Mario Monicelli, considered one of the fathers the famed ‘commedia Italiana’ genre died in Rome Monday night by suicide, Italian media widely reported. He was 95 years old.