Commedia all'italiana
The Commedia all'italiana is a name for the genre of Italian film comedies of the late 1950s and 1960s. The comedies dealt - often with a satirical undertone - with the habits of the bourgeoisie. One of the first films of this genre can be viewed Divorzio all'italiana in Italian ( Divorzio all'italiana, 1962) by Pietro Germi . In the film title, the term "all'italiana" appears for the first time, which was later extended to the comedies of this phase of Italian cinema. Besides Pietro Germi, the main representatives of this genre are the directors Mario Monicelli , Luigi Comencini , Steno , Dino Risi and Pasquale Festa Campanile as well as the authors Age & Scarpelli , Rodolfo Sonego and Suso Cecchi D'Amico . Vittorio Gassman , Marcello Mastroianni , Ugo Tognazzi , Alberto Sordi , Claudia Cardinale , Monica Vitti and Nino Manfredi were among the stars of these films.
To define a quote from Mario Monicelli (from an interview): “La commedia all'italiana è questo: trattare con termini comici, divertenti, ironici, umoristici degli argomenti che sono invece drammatici. È questo che distingue la commedia all'italiana da tutte le altre commedie ... " (" What the Italian comedy is: The treatment of originally dramatic topics with the terms of comedy, lust, irony and humor. This is what distinguishes the Italian from all other comedies. ")