Directing
Nelo Risi
Born — Died
1920-04-21 — 2015-09-17
Place of birth
Milan, Lombardy, Italy
Known for
Directing
Credits
29 titles
Nelo Risi (21 April 1920 – 17 September 2015) was an Italian poet, film director, translator and screenwriter, brother of cinematographer Fernando Risi and director Dino Risi.
Known for
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Midi trente
1972
6.5In this documentary, giants of italian cinema such as Rossellini, De Sica, Fellini and Zavattini talk about the importance of cinema after WW2, and about huge moments of social rebellion. This movie gives the floor to the creators of italian neorealism.
Cinéma et Réalité
1967
5.5The tumultuous life of Arthur Rimbaud, the cursed poet, who completed his masterwork at the age of twenty, became an arms dealer and died at thirty-seven; and his passionate relationship with Paul Verlaine, full of wanderings, storms and falling out.
A Season in Hell
1971
5.3A woman left alone in Morocco by her architect husband begins to lose her mind.
Dead of Summer
1970
7.3"Andremo in città" (We'll Go to the City) is a 1966 Italian drama film directed by Nelo Risi. It is based on the novel of the same name by Edith Bruck, Risi's wife. Bruck, a Hungarian concentration camp-survivor, settled in Italy after the Second World War and wrote about her experiences in autobiographical and fictional formats.[1] The film stars Geraldine Chaplin and Nino Castelnuovo.
We'll Go to the City
1966
5.5After World War II, Anita, a young survivor of Auschwitz, becomes involved in an intense and passionate affair that almost shatters her until she gains the strength to start a new life.
Anita B.
2014
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5.5The tumultuous life of Arthur Rimbaud, the cursed poet, who completed his masterwork at the age of twenty, became an arms dealer and died at thirty-seven; and his passionate relationship with Paul Verlaine, full of wanderings, storms and falling out.
A Season in Hell
1971
5.5The tumultuous life of Arthur Rimbaud, the cursed poet, who completed his masterwork at the age of twenty, became an arms dealer and died at thirty-seven; and his passionate relationship with Paul Verlaine, full of wanderings, storms and falling out.
A Season in Hell
1971
5.3A woman left alone in Morocco by her architect husband begins to lose her mind.
Dead of Summer
1970
5.3A woman left alone in Morocco by her architect husband begins to lose her mind.
Dead of Summer
1970
7.3"Andremo in città" (We'll Go to the City) is a 1966 Italian drama film directed by Nelo Risi. It is based on the novel of the same name by Edith Bruck, Risi's wife. Bruck, a Hungarian concentration camp-survivor, settled in Italy after the Second World War and wrote about her experiences in autobiographical and fictional formats.[1] The film stars Geraldine Chaplin and Nino Castelnuovo.
We'll Go to the City
1966
7.3"Andremo in città" (We'll Go to the City) is a 1966 Italian drama film directed by Nelo Risi. It is based on the novel of the same name by Edith Bruck, Risi's wife. Bruck, a Hungarian concentration camp-survivor, settled in Italy after the Second World War and wrote about her experiences in autobiographical and fictional formats.[1] The film stars Geraldine Chaplin and Nino Castelnuovo.
We'll Go to the City
1966
5.5After World War II, Anita, a young survivor of Auschwitz, becomes involved in an intense and passionate affair that almost shatters her until she gains the strength to start a new life.
Anita B.
2014
7.0An episodic film based on letters to agony columns, showing the effect of sex on the lives of women.
Latin Lovers
1961
7.0An episodic film based on letters to agony columns, showing the effect of sex on the lives of women.
Latin Lovers
1961
6.0Heinz is a German soldier stationed as a sniper overlooking his own army from a tree. When he falls asleep, his troops are gone and he is left alone to defend the incoming enemy invasion. Flashbacks recall his wartime experiences and his transition from a human being into a sadistic murderer and rapist.
Flashback
1969
6.0Michele, a bourgeois intellectual, adhered to fascism for years. After fighting abroad, he returns home in 1943, but is now tired and refuses to join the Republic of Salò. His comrades still want him with them, but this Social Republic, imposed by the SS arms, does not convince him. The war continues and the situation does not allow one to remain neutral.
La strada più lunga
1965
6.0Michele, a bourgeois intellectual, adhered to fascism for years. After fighting abroad, he returns home in 1943, but is now tired and refuses to join the Republic of Salò. His comrades still want him with them, but this Social Republic, imposed by the SS arms, does not convince him. The war continues and the situation does not allow one to remain neutral.
La strada più lunga
1965
8.0Gabriella, a young twenty-five year old from Milan , is married to the lawyer Bernasconi, a middle-aged man, without scruples, who in the past had been the lover of Gabriella's mother. Gabriella falls in love with Franco, an airplane test pilot. Her husband, however, is not willing to grant her a divorce.
Love of a Woman
1988
8.0Gabriella, a young twenty-five year old from Milan , is married to the lawyer Bernasconi, a middle-aged man, without scruples, who in the past had been the lover of Gabriella's mother. Gabriella falls in love with Franco, an airplane test pilot. Her husband, however, is not willing to grant her a divorce.
Love of a Woman
1988
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Per odio, per amore
1991
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Per odio, per amore
1991
The film examines the death of the anarchist Giuseppe Pinelli, who fell from the fourth floor of the police headquarters in Milan December 15, 1969, after being stopped following the Piazza Fontana bombing.
Documents on Giuseppe Pinelli
1970
6.8Anna is a girl who has been under psychiatric therapy for a long time and she needs lots and lots of love.
Diary of a Schizophrenic Girl
1968
6.8Anna is a girl who has been under psychiatric therapy for a long time and she needs lots and lots of love.
Diary of a Schizophrenic Girl
1968
No synopsis available yet.
The City of World
1975
No synopsis available yet.
The City of World
1975
No synopsis available yet.
La traversata
1976
7.0Historical drama, based upon the novel by Alessandro Manzoni.
La colonna infame
1973
7.0Historical drama, based upon the novel by Alessandro Manzoni.
La colonna infame
1973
No synopsis available yet.
La Firenze di Pratolini
1958
NRElectricity is used in every field and demand is constantly increasing. The electricity supplied by AEM in Milan (now A2A) originates in the mountains, in the Adda dams. A river of light that runs to the city to illuminate it and give it the energy it needs to progress.
A river of light
1958
No synopsis available yet.
Il Delitto Matteotti
1956
