Nelo Risi

Directing

Nelo Risi

Born 1920-04-21 · Milan, Lombardy, Italy

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.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

A Season in Hell poster
5.5

The 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

A Season in Hell poster
5.5

The 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

We'll Go to the City poster
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

We'll Go to the City poster
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

Anita B. poster
5.5

After 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

La colonna infame poster
7.0

Historical drama, based upon the novel by Alessandro Manzoni.

La colonna infame

1973

La colonna infame poster
7.0

Historical drama, based upon the novel by Alessandro Manzoni.

La colonna infame

1973

Latin Lovers poster
7.0

An episodic film based on letters to agony columns, showing the effect of sex on the lives of women.

Latin Lovers

1961

Latin Lovers poster
7.0

An episodic film based on letters to agony columns, showing the effect of sex on the lives of women.

Latin Lovers

1961

Dead of Summer poster
5.3

A woman left alone in Morocco by her architect husband begins to lose her mind.

Dead of Summer

1970

Dead of Summer poster
5.3

A woman left alone in Morocco by her architect husband begins to lose her mind.

Dead of Summer

1970

La strada più lunga poster
6.0

Michele, 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

La strada più lunga poster
6.0

Michele, 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

Flashback poster
6.0

Heinz 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

Diary of a Schizophrenic Girl poster
6.8

Anna 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

Diary of a Schizophrenic Girl poster
6.8

Anna 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

Love of a Woman poster
8.0

Gabriella, 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

Love of a Woman poster
8.0

Gabriella, 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

Per odio, per amore poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Per odio, per amore

1991

Per odio, per amore poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Per odio, per amore

1991

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

La traversata

1976

No artwork available
7.7

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

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Il Delitto Matteotti

1956

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The City of World

1975