Mario Camerini

Mario Camerini

Nascimento : 1895-02-06, Roma, Lazio, Italy

Morte : 1981-02-04

História

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 article Mario Camerini, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Perfil

Mario Camerini

Filmes

Juventude Alucinante
Screenplay
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.
Juventude Alucinante
Director
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.
Io non vedo, tu non parli, lui non sente
Screenplay
Two spouses discover a corpse that mysteriously disappears and then reappear in their suitcase. This is stolen by a couple of teens who are suspected, like the first two, of murder.
Io non vedo, tu non parli, lui non sente
Director
Two spouses discover a corpse that mysteriously disappears and then reappear in their suitcase. This is stolen by a couple of teens who are suspected, like the first two, of murder.
Delitto quasi perfetto
Screenplay
Delitto quasi perfetto
Director
Kali-Yug, a Fúria dos Bárbaros
Director
No final do século 19, durante o domínio britânico na Índia, seguidores da deusa Kali cometem uma série de assassinatos.
Kali-Yug, a Deusa da Vingança
Screenplay
No final do século 19, durante o domínio britânico na Índia, seguidores da deusa Kali cometem uma série de assassinatos.
Kali-Yug, a Deusa da Vingança
Director
No final do século 19, durante o domínio britânico na Índia, seguidores da deusa Kali cometem uma série de assassinatos.
Legenda Histórica
Screenplay
Based on the events from the Italian civil war. In 1860's, a member of a guerrilla force captures a colonel from the opposing army and later leads one of the sides to victory.
Legenda Histórica
Director
Based on the events from the Italian civil war. In 1860's, a member of a guerrilla force captures a colonel from the opposing army and later leads one of the sides to victory.
Crime em Montecarlo
Director
Three couples are involved in a murder at Montecarlo.
Run with the Devil
Screenplay
Stefano is a talented painter, devoted to his art but not interested in promoting himself, while many of his fellow artists are far more adept at selling their persona than creating art.
Run with the Devil
Director
Stefano is a talented painter, devoted to his art but not interested in promoting himself, while many of his fellow artists are far more adept at selling their persona than creating art.
First Love
Writer
Ugo meets the 18-year-old Renata in the hostel where she is staying. He falls in love with and leaves with her for several romantic places until the money ends. Ugo will try to get the girl engaged on a local TV station, but Renata falls in love with a manager.
First Love
Director
Ugo meets the 18-year-old Renata in the hostel where she is staying. He falls in love with and leaves with her for several romantic places until the money ends. Ugo will try to get the girl engaged on a local TV station, but Renata falls in love with a manager.
Holiday Island
Screenplay
Intersecting lives on an island holiday: A lawyer anxious he caused a youth's death.An engineer suspecting his wife after being teased by pranksters.A young man falling for a nurse.A Frenchman seeing his wife wooed by a local.
Holiday Island
Director
Intersecting lives on an island holiday: A lawyer anxious he caused a youth's death.An engineer suspecting his wife after being teased by pranksters.A young man falling for a nurse.A Frenchman seeing his wife wooed by a local.
The Awakening
Screenplay
Directed by the incredibly prolific Mario Camerini, Suor Letizia was released in English-speaking regions as When Angels Don't Fly and The Awakening. In her first film appearance since The Rose Tattoo, Anna Magnani plays a feisty nun named Sister Letizia. Believing herself above such earthly trivialities as a maternal instinct, Sr. Letizia changes her way of thinking when an abandoned child is placed in her care. Unofficially adopting the boy, the good sister eventually comes to realize that even she cannot provide the care and guidance of a biological mother. Carefully constructed to accommodate all the surefire box-office elements inherent in Camerini's earlier films, Suor Letizia was almost guaranteed to be a hit.
The Awakening
Story
Directed by the incredibly prolific Mario Camerini, Suor Letizia was released in English-speaking regions as When Angels Don't Fly and The Awakening. In her first film appearance since The Rose Tattoo, Anna Magnani plays a feisty nun named Sister Letizia. Believing herself above such earthly trivialities as a maternal instinct, Sr. Letizia changes her way of thinking when an abandoned child is placed in her care. Unofficially adopting the boy, the good sister eventually comes to realize that even she cannot provide the care and guidance of a biological mother. Carefully constructed to accommodate all the surefire box-office elements inherent in Camerini's earlier films, Suor Letizia was almost guaranteed to be a hit.
The Awakening
Director
Directed by the incredibly prolific Mario Camerini, Suor Letizia was released in English-speaking regions as When Angels Don't Fly and The Awakening. In her first film appearance since The Rose Tattoo, Anna Magnani plays a feisty nun named Sister Letizia. Believing herself above such earthly trivialities as a maternal instinct, Sr. Letizia changes her way of thinking when an abandoned child is placed in her care. Unofficially adopting the boy, the good sister eventually comes to realize that even she cannot provide the care and guidance of a biological mother. Carefully constructed to accommodate all the surefire box-office elements inherent in Camerini's earlier films, Suor Letizia was almost guaranteed to be a hit.
Guerra e Paz
Screenplay
Durante a invasão do exército de Napoleão à Rússia, a doce Natasha se apaixona pelo conde Pierre Bezukhov, mas este se vê à mercê de um casamento por obrigação com a voluptuosa Helene. Voltando do front, Andrei, amigo de Pierre, recupera a alegria de viver ao se apaixonar por Natasha. Baseado no clássico romance homônimo de Leon Tolstoy.
A Bela Moleira
Screenplay
Um político corrupto tenta conquistar uma bela mulher, mas seu marido escapa da prisão.
A Bela Moleira
Director
Um político corrupto tenta conquistar uma bela mulher, mas seu marido escapa da prisão.
Ulysses
Screenplay
Esta obra cinematográfica é baseada no histórico documento narrativo “A Odisséia”, escrito por Homero. Aqui Ulysses (Kirk Douglas) realiza, após 10 anos de guerra na batalha por Tróia, a uma jornada por terra e mar para tentar voltar para casa, em Ítaca, e para sua esposa Penélope (Silvana Mangano), depois de ter perdido da frota de navios durante uma tempestade. Em sua Odisséia, ele percorre mares e caminhos desconhecidos, enfrentando batalhas contra o gigantesco ciclope Polifemo, soldados, encarando a fúria e as mentiras dos deuses na figura de Poseidon, e derramando seu sangue e suor para tentar permanecer vivo, mesmo já tendo perdido todos os seus companheiros. Até que finalmente, após 20 anos de luta, em sua terra natal, ele enfrente o último e mais perigoso desafio…
Ulysses
Director
Esta obra cinematográfica é baseada no histórico documento narrativo “A Odisséia”, escrito por Homero. Aqui Ulysses (Kirk Douglas) realiza, após 10 anos de guerra na batalha por Tróia, a uma jornada por terra e mar para tentar voltar para casa, em Ítaca, e para sua esposa Penélope (Silvana Mangano), depois de ter perdido da frota de navios durante uma tempestade. Em sua Odisséia, ele percorre mares e caminhos desconhecidos, enfrentando batalhas contra o gigantesco ciclope Polifemo, soldados, encarando a fúria e as mentiras dos deuses na figura de Poseidon, e derramando seu sangue e suor para tentar permanecer vivo, mesmo já tendo perdido todos os seus companheiros. Até que finalmente, após 20 anos de luta, em sua terra natal, ele enfrente o último e mais perigoso desafio…
Gli uomini, che mascalzoni!
Writer
Sunday Heroes
Screenplay
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.
Sunday Heroes
Producer
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.
Sunday Heroes
Director
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.
Wife for a Night
Director
A poor musician hires a courtesan to pose as his wife so he can "give" her to a wealthy count in return for patronage.
Honeymoon Deferred
Screenplay
After World War 2, a newly married couple travel to Italy on their honeymoon and visit the town where the husband fought. The town, however, holds some secrets.
Honeymoon Deferred
Director
After World War 2, a newly married couple travel to Italy on their honeymoon and visit the town where the husband fought. The town, however, holds some secrets.
Outlaw Girl
Screenplay
Beppe Musolino is falsely accused of murder. He is tried and once found guilty is imprisoned. Unexpectedly he escape from prison and to survive he start living like an outlaw brigand. He falls in love for Mara, a village girl, and with her help he hunts down all of the witnesses who lied about him at the trial.
Outlaw Girl
Director
Beppe Musolino is falsely accused of murder. He is tried and once found guilty is imprisoned. Unexpectedly he escape from prison and to survive he start living like an outlaw brigand. He falls in love for Mara, a village girl, and with her help he hunts down all of the witnesses who lied about him at the trial.
Sonhos de Rua
Screenplay
Driven by the constant quarrels with his wife and humiliated by a rich Milanese industrialist after asking him for a job, an unemployed person decides to steal a car from a garage guarded by a friend.
Sonhos de Rua
Director
Driven by the constant quarrels with his wife and humiliated by a rich Milanese industrialist after asking him for a job, an unemployed person decides to steal a car from a garage guarded by a friend.
A Filha do Capitão
Screenplay
A peasant leader under the enlightened despotism of Empress Catherine the Great, and a love story.
A Filha do Capitão
Adaptation
A peasant leader under the enlightened despotism of Empress Catherine the Great, and a love story.
A Filha do Capitão
Editor
A peasant leader under the enlightened despotism of Empress Catherine the Great, and a love story.
A Filha do Capitão
Director
A peasant leader under the enlightened despotism of Empress Catherine the Great, and a love story.
Two Anonymous Letters
Screenplay
When her sweetheart Bruno joins the Italian army, Gina, bored by her lack of social life, weds Tullio. She comes to regret her decision when Tullio proves to be a Nazi collaborationist. Casting her lot with the Resistance movement, Gina is forced into a difficult decision when the safety of ex-lover Bruno is endangered by the treachery of Tullio.
Two Anonymous Letters
Director
When her sweetheart Bruno joins the Italian army, Gina, bored by her lack of social life, weds Tullio. She comes to regret her decision when Tullio proves to be a Nazi collaborationist. Casting her lot with the Resistance movement, Gina is forced into a difficult decision when the safety of ex-lover Bruno is endangered by the treachery of Tullio.
T'amerò sempre
Screenplay
Seduced by count Diego and then abandoned, Adriana finds a job at a large hairdresser shop, so she can lead a dignified life together with her daughter.
T'amerò sempre
Story
Seduced by count Diego and then abandoned, Adriana finds a job at a large hairdresser shop, so she can lead a dignified life together with her daughter.
T'amerò sempre
Director
Seduced by count Diego and then abandoned, Adriana finds a job at a large hairdresser shop, so she can lead a dignified life together with her daughter.
Love Story
Director
Venice Film Festival 1942
The Betrothed
Screenplay
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.
The Betrothed
Director
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.
Una romantica avventura
Director
Directed by Mario Camerini.
A Hundred Thousand Dollars
Screenplay
On a whim, an American man offers a girl the sum of $100,000 if she will marry him.
A Hundred Thousand Dollars
Director
On a whim, an American man offers a girl the sum of $100,000 if she will marry him.
Department Store
Editor
In a massive department store the driver romances the shopgirl. The problem is that the manager also has his eye on her, and some employees seem to be pilfering goods from the place.
Department Store
Screenplay
In a massive department store the driver romances the shopgirl. The problem is that the manager also has his eye on her, and some employees seem to be pilfering goods from the place.
Department Store
Story
In a massive department store the driver romances the shopgirl. The problem is that the manager also has his eye on her, and some employees seem to be pilfering goods from the place.
Department Store
Director
In a massive department store the driver romances the shopgirl. The problem is that the manager also has his eye on her, and some employees seem to be pilfering goods from the place.
Heartbeat
Director
Der Mann, der nicht nein sagen kann
Director
Tonight at Eleven
Writer
A comedy poking fun at earlier 1930s American crime films: A society lady goes after a gang of outlaws and lands up becoming involved romantically with a gangster.
Mister Max
Editor
Vittorio De Sica, heir to a large sum of money and owner of a newspaper vending stall, makes enough money out of his business to take a vacation at a fashionable resort. He is given a cruise ticket by an aristocrat who is an old school friend, and is mistaken for the aristocrat when he uses a camera that has his friends name on it. Assia Noris plays a maid who falls in love with him because of who he is and not who others think he is. Happy ending comes when De Sica marries Noris, who is more real than the pampered society belles he has been partying with.
Mister Max
Screenplay
Vittorio De Sica, heir to a large sum of money and owner of a newspaper vending stall, makes enough money out of his business to take a vacation at a fashionable resort. He is given a cruise ticket by an aristocrat who is an old school friend, and is mistaken for the aristocrat when he uses a camera that has his friends name on it. Assia Noris plays a maid who falls in love with him because of who he is and not who others think he is. Happy ending comes when De Sica marries Noris, who is more real than the pampered society belles he has been partying with.
Mister Max
Director
Vittorio De Sica, heir to a large sum of money and owner of a newspaper vending stall, makes enough money out of his business to take a vacation at a fashionable resort. He is given a cruise ticket by an aristocrat who is an old school friend, and is mistaken for the aristocrat when he uses a camera that has his friends name on it. Assia Noris plays a maid who falls in love with him because of who he is and not who others think he is. Happy ending comes when De Sica marries Noris, who is more real than the pampered society belles he has been partying with.
But It's Nothing Serious
Screenplay
Based on a Pirandello play, Vittori De Sica plays a wealthy young social lion who has to constantly fight off a horde of women who are eager to marry him because of his position and money. He weds Elisa Cegani, a servant girl, who turns out to be a more appealing wife than any of the others could have been. Assis Noris decorates the screen well as one of the chasers and pursuers. In 1937, De Sica and Noris made a film, "II Signor Max," which, other than the setting and character role names, basically has the same plot as this film.
But It's Nothing Serious
Director
Based on a Pirandello play, Vittori De Sica plays a wealthy young social lion who has to constantly fight off a horde of women who are eager to marry him because of his position and money. He weds Elisa Cegani, a servant girl, who turns out to be a more appealing wife than any of the others could have been. Assis Noris decorates the screen well as one of the chasers and pursuers. In 1937, De Sica and Noris made a film, "II Signor Max," which, other than the setting and character role names, basically has the same plot as this film.
Il grande appello
Screenplay
An Italian proprietor of a squalid Djibouti bar collaborated in selling arms to Ethiopians fighting his own country's invasion but after finding his long lost son on the Fascist front he decides to choose patriotism over selfish profit.
Il grande appello
Story
An Italian proprietor of a squalid Djibouti bar collaborated in selling arms to Ethiopians fighting his own country's invasion but after finding his long lost son on the Fascist front he decides to choose patriotism over selfish profit.
Il grande appello
Director
An Italian proprietor of a squalid Djibouti bar collaborated in selling arms to Ethiopians fighting his own country's invasion but after finding his long lost son on the Fascist front he decides to choose patriotism over selfish profit.
Come le foglie
Screenplay
Come le foglie
Director
Three Cornered Hat
Director
A comedy about a governor who wants a miller's wife and tries to fix a night with her by putting the miller in jail.
I'll Give a Million
Writer
A comedy about a hobo and a millionaire who swap roles after the millionaire rescues the hobo from a suicide attempt.
I'll Give a Million
Director
A comedy about a hobo and a millionaire who swap roles after the millionaire rescues the hobo from a suicide attempt.
Giallo
Editor
The homonymy of her husband with a criminal who has several murders on his conscience, committed in Canada, scaring the young wife who is a passionate reader of mystery novels and has a guilty conscience
Giallo
Director
The homonymy of her husband with a criminal who has several murders on his conscience, committed in Canada, scaring the young wife who is a passionate reader of mystery novels and has a guilty conscience
I Will Love You Always
Director
T'amerò sempre
Director
100 of these days
Writer
Count Agostino di Montecorvo's nephew and niece pretend they get married for his hundredth birthday since the old man has had this wish for a long time. But when the count wants them to beget a child as well they are forced to present him with a fake one. But then the child's mother wants it back...
100 of these days
Screenplay
Count Agostino di Montecorvo's nephew and niece pretend they get married for his hundredth birthday since the old man has had this wish for a long time. But when the count wants them to beget a child as well they are forced to present him with a fake one. But then the child's mother wants it back...
100 of these days
Director
Count Agostino di Montecorvo's nephew and niece pretend they get married for his hundredth birthday since the old man has had this wish for a long time. But when the count wants them to beget a child as well they are forced to present him with a fake one. But then the child's mother wants it back...
The Last Adventure
Screenplay
A youth and an elderly libertine aristocrat vie for the favors of a beautiful woman, amid the setting of Rapallo.
The Last Adventure
Director
A youth and an elderly libertine aristocrat vie for the favors of a beautiful woman, amid the setting of Rapallo.
What Scoundrels Men Are!
Director
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…
What Scoundrels Men Are!
Screenplay
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…
What Scoundrels Men Are!
Story
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…
Figaro and His Great Day
Director
In this delightful mixture of romance, comedy and music, the director turns back the wheel of time about sixty years and shows the audience an Italy of primitive railroads, high bicycles and the famous "dolce far niente." Taking the visit of a traveling opera company to a small town, where it is scheduled to present "Il Barbiere di Siviglia" and where one of the most important citizens is a retired opera singer, the scenario writer weaves a web of merry complications well calculated to keep the spectators in a happy mood.
Under your eyes
Director
1931 film made for Fiat
Rails
Editor
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.
Rails
Screenplay
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.
Rails
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.
Rails
Director
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.
Kif Tebbi
Director
A young Italian-educated Libyan nobleman is summoned to fight for the Ottoman Empire in 1911.
Maciste in Africa
Director
A young girl is abducted by her tutor, and they set off in a ship which has a sheik on board, who tries to molest her, but she is saved by a sailor. He and Maciste fight off the entire crew but the girl is captured again by the sheik and carried off to his harem, where Maciste and the sailor rescue her and take her back to Italy.
I Want to Betray My Husband
Director
Adaptation of the Ermanno Geymonat play.
Saetta, principe per un giorno
Director
Cyrano de Bergerac
Writer
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. Roxanne loves an officer in his army who gets tongue-tied in front of women. Who will Roxanne love? Will Cyrano ever find love? Or will he find happiness in helping the officer woo Roxanne? This is a story of split personalities, human frailty and unrequited love.