The director Carlo Vanzina – Cinema – Spettacoli is dead

ROME. With the scriptwriter brother Enrico, Carlo Vanzina recounted the holidays of the Italians and with these successful comedies, at the turn of the 1980s and 1990s, he was able to describe the transformations of our country through many people sometimes naive, sometimes cynical. the fortune of many artists, from Christian De Sica to Mbadimo Ghini, from Mbadimo Boldi to Jerry Calà. And to think that Carlo Vanzina did not want to be a director, his dream was to make cinema criticism: "Child, I kept the albums that I filled with all the movies that I have seen and I saw a lot – he wrote my minicritiche, I already put the stars even if it was not used, I wrote all the cast of the actors to the director of photography. "I was a real sick movie".

Son of great Steno (stage name for Stefano Vanzina) and Maria Teresa Nati, Master the great Mario Monicelli. "My father took me to Monicelli who was a great friend and with whom they had worked so much together – Vanzina continued – in the beginning he treated me very badly, he certainly did not want me to feel privileged as a son. of". On the set of movies such as The Brancaleone Army a little more than a boy Carlo Vanzina learned a lot of tricks of the craft "Monicelli was a gruff, a fake bad guy. He treated me in an infernal way, I cried a lot but despite that I bit my teeth and continued until he m '. gave his first aid. "Carlo learned a lot from Monicelli, especially in the direction of the actors, lessons that he put into practice when he made his debut as a director in 1976 with Honeymoon in Three with Renato Pozzetto and Stefania Casini, written by his brother Enrico will always be with the sixty films that they have done together.

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The first great success is Sapore di mare of 1983. The first of a long list of films on holidays, they had chosen this title because the rights of Taste of salt had already been bought by Neri Parenti, and the title brought them luck, the film raised ten billion lire. In the wake of this extraordinary success, we thought of a winter version, Christmas Holidays . The film came out of the Christmas tree and ushered in a genre that, with transformations and adjustments, has arrived until today. Criticism, which opposed them, labeled them as "cinepanettoni" (a term that Carlo and Enrico have always refused), but the public loved them and decreed their success . "Beyond the customary phenomenon that followed, Christmas Holidays was a true Italian comedy inspired by Winter Holidays, the Camillo Mastrocinque film produced by Dino De Laurentiis in '# 39; 59 – he said Enrico Vanzina for the thirtieth birthday – we were interested in this kind of cinema that we had learned to do on the sets of our father, Steno De Laurentiis had the ability to transform a film into a brand and impose it as a popular national taste.He created the successful couple Boldi-De Sica, a couple who had made his debut in our film Yuppies – Successful young people and he is then revealed a perfect comic war machine. "

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The list of films that have signed the two brothers is endless, often in the same year two or three titles were also released. Carlo Vanzina directed almost all the Italian actors: Diego Abatantuono, Gian Maria Will, Sergio Castellitto, Renato Pozzeto, Paolo Village, Gigi Proietti, Enrico Montesano, Vincenzo Salemme, Christian De Sica, Mbadimo Boldi, Enrico Brignano, Michele Placido, Virna Lisi , Monica Bellucci. The relationship with the performers has always been for him the most important part of his work: "Even if a script is well written and that there are good dialogues," he says, "if you have a good, smart comedian and spiritual, it is clear that you as a director you should not stop it but rather push it, push it "

The last film was Hunting treasure (2017) with Vincenzo Salemme, Serena Rossi, Carlo Buccirosso, who writes in his review Paolo D & Agostini, badociates with the Italian comedy with which the Vanzina brothers were formed. from Operation San Gennaro from 1966 by Dino Risi, protagonist of Manfredi and guest star of Totò as in Usual unknowns (here as there is always archetype), a small group of unfortunate unites forces to steal the treasure of San Gennaro.