Agenore Incrocci
Agenore Incrocci (born July 4, 1914 in Brescia , † November 15, 2005 in Rome ) was an Italian screenwriter.
biography
Agenore Incrocci came into contact with the film business in the early 1930s. He did the dubbing for Mario Monicelli's first film I ragazzi della Via Paal . He then worked for the radio and began studying law , which he did not graduate.
During the Second World War he was captured by Germany. I managed to escape. After the war he returned to radio and wrote articles for various magazines.
He wrote the script for I due orfanelli for Mario Mattòli and met Furio Scarpelli in 1949 . As a team of authors, known as Age & Scarpelli , a long and successful collaboration developed. Both are considered co-inventors of the Commedia all'italiana . Together they wrote over 20 scripts for the comedian Totò . A long-term collaboration took place with Mario Monicelli . Incrocci and Scarpelli wrote scripts for his films or developed them together with him.
For Monicelli's film The Strikers he received in 1965 along with Scarpelli and Monicelli nominated for the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay . A year later, Incrocci was again nominated for an Oscar in this category for the film Casanova '70 . He and his co-authors had to admit defeat to Frederic Raphael's script for Darling this time .
In 1966 Age & Scarpelli wrote the screenplay for Sergio Leone's Two Glorious Scoundrels . Leone was not thrilled with the result. According to his own statement, he could not use anything from what was written because it was simply vulgar and repulsive ( "I couldn't use a single thing they'd written. It was the grossest deception of my life" ).
Age & Scarpelli wrote the script with Scola for Ettore Scola's Die Terrasse . For this they received an award in the Best Screenplay category at the Cannes International Film Festival .
In 1999 Incrocci wrote his last screenplay for Andrea Zaccariello. In total, he wrote over 120 scripts in a career spanning more than 50 years.
Filmography (selection)
- 1952: Totò and the women ( Totò e le donne )
- 1957: Fathers and Sons ( Padri e figli )
- 1958: Law is law ( La loi, c'est la loi )
- 1959: It was called the great war ( La grande guerra )
- 1961: raped in chains (A cavallo della tigre)
- 1963: I mostri
- 1963: The whip on the neck ( I compagni )
- 1963: Crazy Summer ( Frenesia dell'estate )
- 1965: But, but, gentlemen ... (Signore & signori)
- 1965: Casanova '70
- 1966: The incredible adventures of the laudable knight Branca Leone (L'armata Brancaleone)
- 1966: Two glorious scoundrels (Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo)
- 1968: Riusciranno i nostri eroi a ritrovare l'amico misteriosamente scomparso in Africa?
- 1970: Jealousy in Italian ( Dramma della gelosia )
- 1970: Brancaleone on a crusade to the Holy Land (Brancaleone alle crociate)
- 1971: Evening without an alibi (In nome del popolo italiano)
- 1980: The terrace ( La terrazza )
Web links
- Agenore Incrocci in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Incrocci's year of birth is given in other sources (e.g. in the Internet Movie Database ) as 1919.
- ↑ Christopher Frayling: Sergio Leone: Something To Do With Death. Faber and Faber, London 2000, ISBN 0571164382 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Incrocci, Agenore |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian screenwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th July 1914 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brescia |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 15, 2005 |
| Place of death | Rome |