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Article: Poverty, misery, war and other comic material: an interview with Mario Monicelli.(Interview)
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- Cineaste
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- September 22, 2004
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Mario Monicelli is the king of Italian comedy. With his proverbial Tuscan sense of humor and social conscience (think of that other anarchical Tuscan, Roberto Benigni), he has laid the pillars of a genre on which others have built flimsier work. His writing and directing career has spanned sixty-nine years and is still counting--more than sixty feature films, TV fiction (including two teleplays with scriptwriter Suso Cecchi D'Amico), theater pieces from Arsenic and Old Lace to original plays and opera. Currently, he's preparing Desert Roses, a major new feature set in Libya about the Italian army's invasion of that country during World War II. A comedy, of course.
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