Writing

Silvia Scola

Acting credits

Behind the camera

What Time Is It? poster
7.4

A father and son who lived separate for some time meet one day to try to reconcile and understand their diametrical differences.

What Time Is It?

1989

The Dinner poster
6.9

An evening at an Italian restaurant hosted by tolerant and relaxed Flora, various middle-class parties enter – large and small, young and old, regulars and tourists, married and single – to dine, converse, argue, celebrate, make confessions; to eavesdrop, to interrupt, to sing, listen to music, and enjoy life.

The Dinner

1998

Mario, Maria and Mario poster
5.8

Mario and Maria Boschi, a 30-year-old couple with small children, are hit by a crisis: husband and wife cannot agree on a party name. A colleague, also named Mario, makes an impressive speech, and Maria find herself increasingly attracted to him. She feels able to relate to him like she could to her husband in the old days. They spend the night together, and she falls ill. When she is asked by her husband to leave the house, she realizes that there may be a difference between real love and a vague need for understanding.

Mario, Maria and Mario

1993

How Strange to be Named Federico poster
7.2

On the 20th anniversary of Federico Fellini's death, Ettore Scola, a devoted admirer of the incomparable maestro, commemorates the lesser-known aspects of his personality, employing interviews, photographs, behind-the-scenes footage as well as his drawings and film clips.

How Strange to be Named Federico

2013

Ridendo e scherzando - Ritratto di un regista all'italiana poster
5.5

Speaking of serious things by making you laugh has always been the characteristic of Ettore Scola’s cinematic style. With the same intent, his daughters Paola and Silvia, using Pif’s verve as an interviewer, retrace their father’s career.

Ridendo e scherzando - Ritratto di un regista all'italiana

2015

Ridendo e scherzando - Ritratto di un regista all'italiana poster
5.5

Speaking of serious things by making you laugh has always been the characteristic of Ettore Scola’s cinematic style. With the same intent, his daughters Paola and Silvia, using Pif’s verve as an interviewer, retrace their father’s career.

Ridendo e scherzando - Ritratto di un regista all'italiana

2015

Unfair Competition poster
7.0

Two textile traders, with the shop close to one another, fight for the supremacy of their own business during the racial laws in 1938 Italy.

Unfair Competition

2001

People of Rome poster
6.3

Cameras follow the citizens of Rome as they go about their days and traverse the city. At dawn, a man leaves home and takes the bus, while a group of Chinese people do morning yoga exercises.

People of Rome

2003

The Story of a Poor Young Man poster
6.6

Two neighbours, young Vincenzo and old Mr Bartoloni, are utterly unhappy. On the one hand, Vincenzo must lead a miserable and frustrating life as he cannot find any regular job, despite his Arts degree. On the other, Mr Bartoloni is fed up with his despotic wife: the woman who used to be a beautiful artist is now a fat and shabby drunkard. The two men meet on a particularly sad night and, during an outburst, Mr. Bartoloni asks Vincenzo to help him to get rid of his wife by simulating an accident with the promise of a reward.

The Story of a Poor Young Man

1995

Il segreto di Otello poster
NR

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Il segreto di Otello

2015

The New Monsters Today poster
4.6

Talks about the fears, vices and weaknesses that bedevil the contemporary Italian society. Highlights the degeneration that is plaguing certain quarters of the Italian society today.

The New Monsters Today

2009