Luigi ZampaFilmography

Gente di Rispetto

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: The Italian Man with a Flower in His Mouth bears no relation to the Luigi Pirandello one-act play of the same title. Also known as Flower in His Mouth, and The Masters this thriller stars Jennifer O'Neill as an American schoolteacher, newly arrived in Sicily. No sooner has she assumed her duties Read More

Bisturi: La Mafia Bianca

Crew: Director

Actors: Gabriele Ferzetti, Enrico Maria Salerno

Synopsis: This Italian film is a searing indictment of the greed and ambition which warp the medical profession. It focuses especially on surgeons in the persons of Professor Valiotti (Gabriele Ferzetti) and Dr. Giordani (Enrico Maria Salerno). Many of the scenes are based on Italian news stories of the Read More

Bello Onesto Emigrato Australia Sposerebbe Compaesan...

Crew: Director

Actors: Claudia Cardinale, Riccardo Garrone, Alberto Sordi

Synopsis: In this Italian comedy, Amedio (Alberto Sordi) is a telephone lineman who works in remote parts of Australia. Unfortunately, for this shy, homely Italian man, all of Australia is remote. He wants a wife, and arranges for one by mail. The woman he has chosen is Carmela (Claudia Cardinale), a very Read More

Contestazione Generale

Crew: Director

Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Nino Manfredi, Alberto Sordi, Michel Simon, Marina Vlady

Synopsis: This three-part social satire lampoons the church, television, big business and universities plagued by campus unrest. Riccardo (Vittorio Gassman) is a rebel who causes confusion on campus and at a television station. Part two finds industrial magnate Cavazza (Michel Simon) hounding his Read More

Il Medico Della Mutua

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Alberto Sordi, Bice Valori, Sara Franchetti, Evelyn Stewart

Synopsis: This comedic social satire mercilessly lampoons Italy's ineffectual health-care system that allows for corruption and mass hypochondria. An ambitious Dr. Tersilli (Alberto Sordi) bets his fellow doctors that he can amass more patients and benefits than they can. Learning the ins-and-outs of the Read More

Le Dolci Signore

Crew: Director

Actors: Ursula Andress, Virna Lisi, Marisa Mell, Claudine Auger, Brett Halsey

Synopsis: Yet another entry in a long series of 1960s Italian sex comedies, this one has some clever moments in its study of four beautiful women (Ursula Andress, Marisa Mell, Virna Lisi, and Claudine Auger) who cheat on their husbands to relieve their marital discontent. Jean-Pierre Cassel also stars in Read More

Una Questione D'onore

Crew: Director

Actors: Ugo Tognazzi, Nicoletta Machiavelli, Bernard Blier, Franco Fabrizi, Leopoldo Trieste

Synopsis: In this offbeat black comedy, Efisio Ugo Tognazzi is smuggled into Sardinia to kill a man for his insulting remarks about another family. While he is with his wife in Milan, the intended victim is killed by another man and Efisio gets credit for the hit. When his wife becomes pregnant, rumors in Read More

Frenesia D'Estate

Crew: Director

Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Philippe Leroy, Michele Mercier, Sandra Milo, Umberto D'Orsi

Synopsis: Composed by five different screenwriters, this Italian/French comedy stars the talented and ubiquitous Vittorio Gassman as an army officer who has a difficult time believing an attractive woman is in fact a woman. Michele Mercier plays a performer who is taking the place of a female impersonator Read More

Anni Ruggenti

Crew: Director

Actors: Nino Manfredi, Gino Cervi, Salvo Randone, Michele Mercier, Gastone Moschin

Synopsis: When an insurance salesman comes to a small Italian town, he is mistaken for a Fascist official sent from Rome. He is greeted by town officials and has an audience with a man plotting a resistance movement. The innocent salesman is caught up in the political upheaval that swept Italy in the days Read More

The Love Specialist

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: In this frothy romantic outing, a brainy gal from Texas heads for Italy after winning a television quiz show. There she encounters a down-on-his-luck Italian prince who pursues her because she looks wealthy (she isn't). Of course, she doesn't realize that he his also broke and merry mix-ups ensue. Read More

Il Magistrato

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: José Suárez, François Perier, Jacqueline Sassard, Massimo Serato, Ana Mariscal

Synopsis: Director and co-writer Luigi Zampa, best known for his earlier works as a satirist of favorite targets like bureaucratic labyrinths, takes a stab at the complicity of society and family in the criminal acts of a few individuals. The stage is set by a somewhat dysfunctional family with its sad Read More

La Ragazza Del Palio

Crew: Director

Actors: Diana Dors, Vittorio Gassman

Synopsis: Diana Dors, Britain's equivalent to Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield, is virtually the whole show in La Ragazza del Palio (The Girl and the Palio). Diana plays Diana Wilson, a Texas gal who wins a trip to Italy from a radio quiz program. The minute she alights from the plane, our heroine is Read More

Of Life and Love

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This Italian drama is a four episode anthology based on the stories of Pirandello. The episodes were compiled from two Italian episodic films from the mid 1950s. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

L'Arte Di Arrangiarsi

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Alberto Sordi, Armenia Balducci, Franco Coop

Synopsis: Sicilian Sasa Scimoni (Alberto Sordi) learns L'Arte di Arranglarsi, or "The Art of Getting Along", in this perceptive Italian comedy. Over a period of several decades, Scimoni must adapt to the various power structures in Italy. Whether it be the monarchy, the socialists, the fascists or the Read More

La Romana

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Gina Lollobrigida, Daniel Gélin, Raymond Pellegrin, Franco Fabrizi, Pina Piovani

Synopsis: La Romana (Women of Rome) is a worthwhile early starring vehicle for Gina Lollobrigida. "La Lollo" plays a young woman who is strong-armed into a modelling career by her ambitious mother. Before long, she discovers that there's a lot more money to be had if she sells her body rather than merely Read More

Siamo Donne

Crew: Director

Anni Facili

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Nino Taranto, Clelia Matania, Giovanna Ralli

Synopsis: Anni Facili (The Early Years) stars Nino Taranto as Sicilian professor De Francesco. On behalf of a friend who has developed a revolutionary new medicine, the professor seeks out government approval for the formula in Rome. Miles and miles of red tape later, De Francesco is virtually back where he Read More

The City Stands Trial

Crew: Director

Rome Paris Rome

Crew: Director

Actors: Aldo Fabrizi, Peppino De Filippo, Julien Carette, Noël Roquevert

Synopsis: The seemingly effortless direction of Luigi Zampa helps smooth over the rough spots of Signori in Carroza. Aldo Fabrizi stars as a Pullman porter working the Rome-Paris-Rome route. Anticipating The Captain's Paradise by a full year, Vincenzo Nardi (Fabrizi) has a wife and family in Rome and a Read More

E Più Facile Che Un Camello

Crew: Director

Actors: Jean Gabin, Elena Altieri, Julien Carette, Antonella Lualdi

Synopsis: Two masters of Italian neorealism--screenwriter Cesare Zavattini and director Luigi Zampa--collaborated on It is Easier for a Camel. As indicated by the film's title, a measure of religiosity figures into the proceedings. Recently deceased Carlo Bacchi (Jean Gabin), on the verge of being sent to Read More

Cuori Senza Frontiere

Crew: Director

Actors: Gina Lollobrigida, Raf Vallone, Erno Crisa, Cesco Baseggio

Synopsis: The White Line is a modest anti-war statement set in a tiny Italian village near Trieste. As the result of an International Peace Conference, the nearby borders are changed, with a white line drawn in the middle of the town. One half of the community belongs to the Italians, while the other half Read More

Campane a martello

Crew: Director

Actors: Gina Lollobrigida, Eduardo de Filippo, Yvonne Sanson, Carlo Romano, Carlo Giustini

Synopsis: Gina Lollobridgida was a virtual unknown in the U.S. when Campagne a Martello was released to English-speaking countries in 1950. Critics said then what they'd say later: as an actress, Gina was very pretty. The story concerns an Italian prostitute named Agostina (Lollobridgida) who is left Read More

Children of Chance

Crew: Director

Actors: Patricia Medina

Synopsis: In this drama, set at the end of WW II, two Italian prostitutes ply their trade with American soldiers. When the war ends, they go back home to spend their money which is used by a local priest to create a home for illegitimate war children. Director Luigi Zampa shot this film at the same time as Read More

Anni Difficili

Crew: Director

Actors: Umberto Spadaro, Massimo Girotti, Ave Ninchi, Ernesto Almirante

Synopsis: The Difficult Years is another uncompromising neorealist exercise by Italian filmmaker Luigi Zampa. The title refers to the years that Italy spent under the thumb of fascism. It is Zampa's thesis that the majority of Italian citizens preferred to ignore Mussolini's trampling of human rights and Read More

L'Onorevole Angelina

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Anna Magnani, Nando Bruno, Ave Ninchi

Synopsis: Anna Magnani won Best Actress at the 1947 Venice Film Festival for her stirring comic performance in this charming film, which she co-wrote with director Luigi Zampa, [$Suso Cecchio D'Amico}, and Piero Tellini. Magnani portrays Angelina, an impoverished housewife who begins a passionate battle to Read More

Vivere in Pace

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Aldo Fabrizi, Gar Moore, John Kitzmiller

Synopsis: In this interesting Italian WW II comedy-drama, the residents of a remote Italian village find their lives forever changed when two American GIs break out of a German prison camp and hide out in their town. The fugitives are harbored by a local family. This divides the town into those wanting to Read More

Un Americano in Vacanza

Crew: Director

Actors: Valentina Cortese, Andrea Checchi

Synopsis: Luigi Zampa's A Week's Leave (Un American in Vacanza) stars Italy's Valentina Cortese and America's Leo Dale. Cortese plays Maria, a provincial schoolteacher who comes to Rome on an errand of mercy for her deprived countrymen. Dale is cast as Dick, a GI who offers Maria a ride when her ancient car Read More

L'Abito Nero Da Sposa

Crew: Director