Writing
Piero De Bernardi
Born — Died
1926-04-12 — 2010-01-08
Place of birth
Prato, Italy
Known for
Writing
Credits
45 titles
Known for
8.4A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.
Once Upon a Time in America
1984
7.1Lorenzo, who's 16 and born to a wealthy family in Parma, tries to make things right toward a showgirl, Aida, whom his older brother has mistreated. In extending kindness and standing up for her, he comes of age. But, is there anything he can do that will alter Aida's situation or her prospects?
Girl with a Suitcase
1961
8.1Four inseparable friends try to face their midlife crisis with daytrips and pranks at the expense of their families and the people around them.
My Friends
1975
7.7During the bombing of Naples in World War II, a cynical businessman helps a naive prostitute, who spends the next two decades desperate to have him reciprocate her feelings.
Marriage Italian Style
1964
6.3Alfredo, a timid young Italian, lusts after and woos the beautiful Maria Rosa. But when he manages to marry her, he discovers life is not nearly so blissful as he expected.
Alfredo, Alfredo
1972
7.0In the first episode, Quirino tries to conquer co-worker Gabriella. In the second episode, Prof. Beozi ends up in a raid of the police in a local for homosexuals when trying to avoid a scandal. In the third episode, Guglielmo passes all tests in order to become reader of the television news brilliantly, although the commission works with all subtleness's to exclude him.
Complexes
1965
Film credits
2000s · 3 titles
9.6Documentary about Sergio Leone
Sergio Leone: The Way I See Things
2006
6.1A short documentary based on Sergio Leone's life and career, and the making of the film "Once Upon a Time in America."
Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone
2000
NRDocumentary about Italian screenwriting legends Agenore 'Age' Incrocci and Furio Scarpelli.
La strana coppia. Incontro con Age e Scarpelli
2001
1990s · 2 titles
5.7Paolo Villaggio and Renato Pozzetto are the protagonists of various misadventures, first as nurses of a crazy ambulance, then as night guards of a shopping center and later as a pilot and stewardess of an air taxi. Next, they enlist in the foreign legion and then work as a Santa Claus in a Department Store.
The Comics 2
1991
5.8Two silent movie actors escape from their film. Forced to find a way to survive in the real world, they will only cause troubles to the people they will meet along the way.
The Comics
1990
Behind the camera
8.4A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.
Once Upon a Time in America
1984
7.1Lorenzo, who's 16 and born to a wealthy family in Parma, tries to make things right toward a showgirl, Aida, whom his older brother has mistreated. In extending kindness and standing up for her, he comes of age. But, is there anything he can do that will alter Aida's situation or her prospects?
Girl with a Suitcase
1961
8.1Four inseparable friends try to face their midlife crisis with daytrips and pranks at the expense of their families and the people around them.
My Friends
1975
7.7During the bombing of Naples in World War II, a cynical businessman helps a naive prostitute, who spends the next two decades desperate to have him reciprocate her feelings.
Marriage Italian Style
1964
6.3Alfredo, a timid young Italian, lusts after and woos the beautiful Maria Rosa. But when he manages to marry her, he discovers life is not nearly so blissful as he expected.
Alfredo, Alfredo
1972
7.0In the first episode, Quirino tries to conquer co-worker Gabriella. In the second episode, Prof. Beozi ends up in a raid of the police in a local for homosexuals when trying to avoid a scandal. In the third episode, Guglielmo passes all tests in order to become reader of the television news brilliantly, although the commission works with all subtleness's to exclude him.
Complexes
1965
7.6The story of a widower and his two sons, focusing on their complex and sometimes difficult relationships.
Misunderstood
1967
4.1Pauline Bonaparte, sister of the famous Napoleon, embarks on a series of amourous escapades, including an engagement to the Conventionnel Fréron; her relationship with the comté de Canouville; and her marriage to General Leclerc, whom she follows to Saint-Domingue.
Imperial Venus
1962
5.9In Pietrasanta all are excited for the annual party of summer end. Here we find four characters: Merigo, a naive guy passionate of bike; Pierre, son of the mayor; Simone, a pestiferous kid; Mario, lifeguard of "Bagnomaria".
Bagnomaria
1999
6.9A multifaceted exploration of the pointlessness of sexual stereotypes. Liv Ullmann is a countess who, after her divorce, takes over the family farm. Realizing that she can't rely on the patriarchal society structure for assistance, Ullmann runs the farm herself with the help of her female servants and relatives. When the Count (Philipe Noiret) comes back into her life, he and his male buddies find themselves outclassed by the expertise of the ladies.
Let's Hope It's a Girl
1986
6.3Vanni, Gregorio and Livia are brothers. The first is a well-known pianist, the second has abandoned his career as an aspiring violinist to become a deejay. When Vanni discovers that his father has disappeared into thin air, together with Gregorio they decide to call his sister Livia. The three relatives travel the length and breadth of Tuscany to find their missing parent.
Al lupo, al lupo
1992
7.1Priest Don Camillo blackmails his friendly rival Peppone into letting him join a Communist delegation visiting the Soviet Union.
Don Camillo in Moscow
1965
6.3Efisio Mulas is a meek laborer who lives with occasional work, especially in Don Leandro Sanna's salon, and rounds up the slim balance by betting with colleagues in strength with the game "head against head". In the village the Sanna and Porcu families' conflict has lasted over a century.
A Matter of Honor
1966
6.5Wealthy teenager Guendalina is a child of divorce. Oberdan, likewise a teenager, is a boy from a blue-collar family. Escaping from the tribulations of her home life, Guendalina creates a dream world of her own, casting Oberdan as her personal Prince Charming. Despite parental objections, girl and boy fall in love. Interestingly enough, the relationship between Guendalina and Oberdan remains pure and chaste throughout their film, which is more than can be said for their parents. their respective parents behave with marked laciviousness.
Guendalina
1957
5.2The story of a German scientist/stage magician eking out a miserly life in Rio de Janeiro's favelas until getting involved in an improbable kidnapping and ransom plot.
Professor Kranz german in Germany
1978
7.1Three characters' misadventures in semi-deserted, summertime Rome: a dim-witted mama's boy falls for a tourist; a would-be womanizer struggles to find company for his sex tourism trip to Kraków; a hippie is drawn into his father's schemes to bring him back into polite society.
Fun Is Beautiful
1980
7.6The four old friends meet on the grave of the fifth of them, Perozzi, who died at the end of the first episode. Time has passed but they are still up for adventures and cruel jokes, and while they recall the one they created together with the late friend, new ones are on their way, starting right there at the cemetery.
My Friends Act II
1982
5.3This semi-amusing sex (romance) comedy has four separate stories: "The Telephone Call", written by Rodolfo Sonego, directed by Dino Risi. "A Treatise on Eugenics", written by Tullio Pinelli from a story by Luciano Salce and Steno, directed by Luigi Comencini. "The Soup", written by Rodolfo Sonego and Luigi Magni, directed by Franco Rossi. "Monsignor Cupid", written by Leo Benvenuti and Piero de Bernardi from a story by Boccaccio, directed by Mauro Bolognini.
The Dolls
1965
6.0Fantozzi is now retired but continues to go to the office where it is held up as a fine example of employees intending to do career.
Fantozzi to the Rescue
1990
6.9During the reign of King Alboin, the peasant Bertoldo, sly and smart, manages to always get away with pranks and pleasantires with great mastery, and, even if his clumsy wife Marcolfa and their foolish son Bertoldino always put him in trouble, his shrewdness and acumen save him from any unfortunate situation...
Bertoldo, Bertoldino, and Cacasenno
1984
7.8A good-natured but unlucky Italian is constantly finding himself in difficult situations, but never losing his mood.
Fantozzi
1975
6.7An episodic satire of the political and social status of Italy in the seventies, through the shows of one day of a television channel.
Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen
1976
6.7The world's greatest criminal and the world greatest loser share the same face... now they'll share the same life!
Fracchia The Human Beast
1981
6.0Serafino, a young and innocent shepherd, inherits a huge fortune. He immediately starts spending the entire sum on presents for his friends, causing the envy of his family.
Serafino
1968
6.2Sandro is a well-known journalist and he is conducting a survey on human selfishness. Every man and every woman he meets turns into a theme for his inquiry. Even his own wife, Titta.
Me, Me, Me... and the Others
1966
6.4This time the "amici" (friends) are just four: Necchi, Meandri, Mascetti and Sassaroli. Nevertheless they are older they still love to spend their time mainly organizing irresistible jokes to everyone in every kind of situation. Mascetti is hospitalized in a geriatric clinic. Of course the place become immediately the main stage for all their jokes. After some jokes they decided to place an ultimate incredible and farcical joke to the clinic guests.
My Friends Act III
1985
5.6Three sexy and comic episodes.
Strange Occasion
1976
6.5After a hard day at work and a condominium-board meeting, accountant Ugo Fantozzi goes on a trip with his family. Unfortunately, he will face a nasty surprise upon his return.
Fantozzi Still Suffers
1983
5.9Five episodes: a mature model makes his lover jealous; lovers quarrel; a clumsy Don Juan in business; a dancer and a captain; a beauty falls in love with a Spanish cyclist. The characters in the episodes intertwine, but the stories are not always treated with a light touch.
Summer Frenzy
1964
4.4Playwright irreparable failure is betrayed by a concubine with the lawyer that finances the charade. But one day arrives at his house Honey, Eastern African domestic workers to first service, to boot, is a billionaire and of royal blood.
Tesoromio
1979
5.8One by one, with a sweet but inexorable rate, Ugo's colleagues, go to a better life. When Ugo is attending at one of the innumerable funerals, he and the priest remain involved in an accident. The doctor says that Ugo as only one week left to live
Fantozzi in Heaven
1993
5.5The adventures of a couple of scoundrels in the Spain of the 16th century.
I picari
1987
5.8Saverio and Filippo are two friends and religious leaders of a travel agency in Rome. However, Filippo has trouble with his wife, because she finds out that he cheated on her with a comely girl named Alice.
Tonight at Alice's
1990
7.2A bureaucratic snafu sends Marco Tullio Sperelli, a portly, middle-aged northern Italian, to teach third grade in a poor town outside Naples
Ciao, Professore!
1992
6.3A female school teacher is implicated in a murder in a Sicilian town only hours after her arrival. The dead man insulted her on the bus on the way into town. As the mystery unfolds, it becomes clear that the town is hiding some very sinister secrets.
The Flower in His Mouth
1975
6.5Carlo is a responsible sibling who deals with his black-sheep sister Silvia in this situation comedy. When Silvia returns after many years to attend her mother's funeral, Carlo deals with the fallout caused by her many love affairs. Carlo is convinced to kidnap Silvia's child whom she left in a Hungarian children's home, but she soon abandons Carlo and the baby when she takes up with a British rock star.
My Sister and I
1987
5.7Mario, a rich and eccentric war hero befriends Marco, a loner with a sailboat, and takes him home to meet his estranged wife Cleofe and sexually repressed sister in law Matilde. Mario confesses his love for Matilde and so ensues a love triangle.
The Bishop's Bedroom
1977
7.1A group of former high school classmates meets for a reunion 15 years after graduation, only to discover that any innocence or friendship is long lost.
Compagni di scuola
1988
7.8In 18th-century Rome, impish aristocrat Onofrio del Grillo amuses himself by playing pranks on all sorts of people — his reactionary family and fellow nobles, the poors, the French occupiers trying to modernize society, and even the Pope himself.
The Marquis of Grillo
1981
7.5The frustrating adventures of a humble employee who all the time has to fullfill the wishes and desires of his bosses.
The Second Tragic Fantozzi
1976
