Writing

Dario Fo

Born — Died

1926-03-24 — 2016-10-13

Place of birth

Sangiano, Varese, Italy

Known for

Writing

Credits

34 titles

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Dario Fo (born 24 March 1926) is an Italian satirist, playwright, theatre director, actor, composer and recipient of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature. His dramatic work employs comedic methods of the ancient Italian commedia dell'arte, a theatrical style popular with the working classes. Fo's works are characterised by criticisms of organised crime, political corruption, political murders, most of the Catholic Church doctrine and conflict in the Middle East. His plays often depend on improvisation, commedia dell'arte style. His plays, especially Mistero Buffo, have been translated into 30 languages and, when performed outside Italy, they are often mod…

Known for

Film credits

2010s · 6 titles

Now and Forever Time to Reclaim Life poster
NR

“A future historian, if he or she is honest, will feel a legitimate need to place the decade 1968 to 1978 alongside the great events that changed the world, such as the French and Russian Revolutions”. This was the guiding idea to which we entrusted, with considerable emotion, our personal memory and the archive footage that we took and collected during those years and which represent the physical body of the battles fought and victories gained everywhere during those ten years. Their value, in a country like Italy which has lost its memory, is a rare witness to the power of human dignity in a constant struggle for its redemption.

Now and Forever Time to Reclaim Life

2018

La voce di Fantozzi poster
7.7

The docufilm tells the story of Paolo Villaggio's genius through the most iconic Italian character, accountant Ugo Fantozzi. The work was featured in the Classics section of the 74th Venice International Film Festival.

La voce di Fantozzi

2017

27 aprile Racconto di un evento poster
NR

The documentary starts from the sanctification of Pope Giovanni XXIII and Pope Giovanni Paolo II and tells the scenes on the figures of the two saints and popes of Pope Francesco I, with a stock image of three Popes enriched with new images of Pope Francesco I at the time of his election before it is presented to the whole world. A journey through exclusive places and partly unpublished Vatican.

27 aprile Racconto di un evento

2014

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Woodstock 5 Stelle

2010

Callas poster
NR

For the first time together, Dario Fo and Paola Cortellesi take the spectator through a journey in the life of Maria Callas in the last play written by Fo and the late Franca Rame.

Callas

2015

Bandiera Viola poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Bandiera Viola

2010

2000s · 8 titles

Viva Zapatero! poster
6.9

Viva Zapatero! is a 2005 documentary by Sabina Guzzanti telling her side of the story regarding the conflict with Silvio Berlusconi over a late-night TV political satire show broadcast on RAI-3. The show, RAIot (a play on the name of the Italian state public TV: RAI, and the English word riot), lampooned prime minister Berlusconi. Since it wasn't considered a satirical show, but a political one, it was cancelled after the first episode.

Viva Zapatero!

2005

Vittorio D. poster
6.3

A documentary about Vittorio de Sica with clips of his films and testimonials from friends and family.

Vittorio D.

2009

Forbidden Grass poster
8.0

All you wanted to know about THC and you were never told. A mix of documentary, comedy and live music to celebrate the Italian movement in favor of the legalization of cannabis.

Forbidden Grass

2002

Zero: An Investigation Into 9/11 poster
6.2

ZERO: An Investigation into 9/11 has one central thesis: that the official version of the events surrounding the attacks on 9/11 cannot be true. This feature documentary explores the latest scientific evidence and reveals dramatic new witness testimony, which directly conflicts with the U.S. government's account.

Zero: An Investigation Into 9/11

2008

The Peddler's Backpack poster
7.5

From Italian set designer to Brazilian stage director, Gianni Ratto, born in Italy in 1916 and based in Brazil since 1954, retraces the geographical path of his life, accompanied by his daughter, passing through Genoa, Milan, Florence, São Paulo, and Rio de Janeiro, visiting places and people who marked his journey. At each encounter, Gianni speaks of his work and reveals the ideas of someone who not only executes but also thinks about theater from a humanist perspective.

The Peddler's Backpack

2005

Io non sono un moderato poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Io non sono un moderato

2007

Venetian Rascal Goes to America poster
6.4

No synopsis available yet.

Venetian Rascal Goes to America

2002

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Il mondo alla rovescia: appunti sul cabaret milanese

2002

1980s · 2 titles

1950s · 6 titles

March's Child poster
6.4

Francesca and Sandro meet, falls for each other and get married. But the differences between them are too many and the separation is around the corner.

March's Child

1958

Elementary School poster
6.2

Dante Trilli, who has been teaching in his village school for about twenty years, wins a competition for Milan. Waiting for him is his childhood friend, where he is the janitor in the school where Trilli will teach.

Elementary School

1954

Domenica è sempre domenica poster
6.7

A television broadcast launches a proclamation for amateurs: "If you know how to speak, you will know how to sing". The award mirage lured many person, with ambitions or financial problems, to enroll in the competition.

Domenica è sempre domenica

1958

Rascel-Fifì poster
8.0

Renato and Gedeon have just opened a nightclub in a disreputable area of New York, triggering the hostility of Gionata, a gang leader and owner of the nightclub across the street. Helped by the hoods of his gang, Gionata uses a couple of tricks to try and ruin his competitors. To begin with, he induces his friend Barbara, a vamp, to perform in a hot number in Renato and Gedeon's joint, so that the police intervene and close the club. The move fails, so Gionata decides to have Renatino, Renato's son, kidnapped by his men, which proves another flop. To make matters worse for Gionata, Michaela, his own daughter, has fallen in love with Renato, and sides with him and his partner...

Rascel-Fifì

1957

Villini a sorpresa poster
NR

A door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman finds himself caught up in a surreal misdeed, which takes place inside a cottage where the man has gone to introduce the product to a potential customer.

Villini a sorpresa

1958

The Screwball poster
6.6

Achilles, a Hulot-like factotum for an evening newspaper, travels around looking for a scoop in the Milan of the "economic miracle."

The Screwball

1956

Series credits

Behind the camera

It Happened in Rome poster
5.8

Three girls are on a hitchhiking trip through northern Italy, the riviera, Venice, Pisa and Rome.

It Happened in Rome

1957

Rosso e nero poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Rosso e nero

1954

Rascel-Fifì poster
8.0

Renato and Gedeon have just opened a nightclub in a disreputable area of New York, triggering the hostility of Gionata, a gang leader and owner of the nightclub across the street. Helped by the hoods of his gang, Gionata uses a couple of tricks to try and ruin his competitors. To begin with, he induces his friend Barbara, a vamp, to perform in a hot number in Renato and Gedeon's joint, so that the police intervene and close the club. The move fails, so Gionata decides to have Renatino, Renato's son, kidnapped by his men, which proves another flop. To make matters worse for Gionata, Michaela, his own daughter, has fallen in love with Renato, and sides with him and his partner...

Rascel-Fifì

1957

No artwork available
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Vi betaler ikke, vi betaler ikke

1984

Callas poster
NR

For the first time together, Dario Fo and Paola Cortellesi take the spectator through a journey in the life of Maria Callas in the last play written by Fo and the late Franca Rame.

Callas

2015

The Screwball poster
6.6

Achilles, a Hulot-like factotum for an evening newspaper, travels around looking for a scoop in the Milan of the "economic miracle."

The Screwball

1956

The Accidental Death of an Anarchist poster
NR

A Chinese adaptation of a 1970 play by Dario Fo, with some changes to the original script. Staged in 1998 by Central Experimental Theater Company, directed by Meng Jinghui, one of the most outstanding avant-garde theater artists in contemporary China.

The Accidental Death of an Anarchist

1998