, film director Mario Monicelli committed suicide
Main works Monicelli heroes - ordinary people in unusual situations
One of the most famous Italian filmmakers of the postwar era Mario Monicelli committed suicide.
95-year-old filmmaker jumped from fifth-floor window of Rome clinic, where he was treated for prostate cancer.
Mario Monicelli over 70 years of film career took off 70 films and wrote more than 80 scenarios.
He received almost all European kinonagrad four times been nominated for an Oscar.
Monicelli called the father of the genre, "an Italian comedy."
Comedy, which is filled with irony, sometimes bitter, sometimes even dramatic and tragic. And that, essentially, is an Italian comedy "- once said Mario Monicelli
Monicelli film career began in 1934, but he became famous after the war, in the fifties, when he began shooting a comedy with the main character named Toto.
"To think and laugh"
The main theme of his work - ordinary people in unusual situations.
One of his most famous works - "Small, petty bourgeois," in which the protagonist's son is killed by a bullet bank robber. The protagonist decides to take revenge on the murderer.
Monicelli was known for his leftist views and called last year for students to take part in protests against government plans to cut spending on culture.
Monicelli known also by the fact that helped to start a career in film who later became famous by Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale and Vittorio Gassmanu.
Father of producer, journalist Tommaso Monicelli, in 1947, too, committed suicide.
According to Italian President Giorgio Napolitano, Mario Monicelli will remain in the memory of millions of Italians, because he was able to touch their hearts, make them laugh and think. "
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