Biography
Ennio De Concini (9 December 1923, Rome – 17 November 2008) was an Italian screenwriter and film director, winning the Academy Award in 1962 for the "Best Original Screenplay" for Divorce Italian Style. He was the co-screenwriter of The Red Tent a 1969 film starring Sean Connery which was based on Umberto Nobile's disastrous 1928 expedition to the North Pole in the airship Italia. Among the 60 films to his credit are The Twist (1976), Four of the Apocalypse (1975), Hitler: The Last Ten Days (19...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Kino kolossal - Herkules, Maciste & Co
2000
as Self

La quindicesima epistola
1998
Story, Opera

Fátima
1997
Writer
1917, a beautiful apparition of Our Lady forever alters the lives of three children: Lucinda, Jacita and Francisco who lived in Villa Fatima in Portug...

The Man with the Cigar in His Mouth
1997
as Self

Cartoni animati
1997
Story

The Magician
1995
Writer

Miracle of Marcellino
1991
Writer
In the 15th century, in a poor Italian village, the monks of a modest convent take up an abandoned baby. Unfortunately, for all their efforts, they pr...

Per odio, per amore
1991
Writer

Suffocating Heat
1991
Writer
On June 30, 1990, in Rome, Marie Christine is getting ready to take her son Pietro and Paolo to their father for the weekend. As the Football World Cu...

The Bachelor
1990
Screenplay
In pre-WWI Austria-Hungary, a physician struggles with his decision about which woman will he marry.

The Dark Sun
1990
Screenplay
After the death of his mother a man returns to his hometown Palermo in southern Italy in order to get hold of the legacy. Once there he is forced to p...

Life with the Kids
1990
Screenplay
The story of one man dealing with an unexpected series of events, discovering his youth once again in the relationship with a much younger woman and f...

There Was a Castle with Forty Dogs
1990
Screenplay

Young Toscanini
1988
Original Story
A fanciful biopic of legendary conductor Arturo Toscanini as a very young man.

Il vizio di vivere
1988
Screenplay

The Mask
1988
Writer
A debauched nobleman offers himself to a beautiful woman, but she is repelled by his advances. He dons a mask and tries again, and this time is more s...

Don Bosco
1988
Screenplay, Story
This film depicts the life of Saint John Bosco, who dedicated his life to rescuing abandoned and exploited street children in Turin.

Devil in the Flesh
1986
Writer
An Italian high school student becomes infatuated with a woman he sees outside his class window. Her fiancée is in jail for being involved in a radica...

The 2 Lives of Mattia Pascal
1985
Story, Screenplay
Based on 'Il fu Mattia Pascal', one of Pirandello's many stories concerning the transitory nature of the intangibles "truth" and "identity". Mattia Pa...

Copkiller
1983
Screenplay
A NYPD officer imprisons and tortures an admitted cop-killer, but finds the tables turned when his victim refuses to break and in fact urges more puni...

The Good Soldier
1982
Screenplay
Tommaso, a young boy growing up in a big family in the country often spies on cousin Marta. Then she marries and moves away. The film then following t...

Savage Breed
1980
Writer
Mario lives in Turin with his sister Michelina. He works in the factory. He meets a young Turin man running a night club frequented by unsavory people...

Together?
1979
Writer
Louise has left her husband, launched a career as a dress designer, and together with her son moved in with Giovanni, a lawyer. Despite the emancipate...

Just a Gigolo
1978
Writer
After World War I, a war hero returns to Berlin to find that there's no place for him--he has no skills other than what he learned in the army, and ca...

China 9, Liberty 37
1978
Story
Gunslinger Clayton Drumm is about to be hanged when he is given a chance to live if he agrees to murder Matthew, a miner who has steadfastly refused t...

The Last Romantic Lover
1978
Writer
The romance between a lion tamer and a liberated girl.

The Twist
1976
Adaptation
Claire de La Tour Picquet shares her life between her husband, the successful novelist William Brandeis, and her lover, Jacques Lalouet, William's pub...

Salon Kitty
1976
Screenplay, Story
Kitty runs a brothel in Nazi Germany where the soldiers come to "relax". Recording devices have been installed in each room by a power hungry army off...

The Barons
1975
Writer
Leopoldo Lalumera, grandson of a wealthy eighty-four-year-old baron, infuriated during a galactic convention with a prosaic maid, discovers, on the ev...

Four of the Apocalypse
1975
Screenplay
Four petty criminals, three men and a woman, wander through the trackless terrain of the Wild West Utah and are hounded by a sadistic bandit.

Hitler: The Last Ten Days
1973
Director, Screenplay
Hitler: The Last Ten Days takes us into the depths of der Furher’s Berlin bunker during his final days. Based on the book by Gerhard Boldt, it provide...
Daniele and Maria
1973
Director, Writer
Directed by the Oscar-winning screenwriter Ennio De Concini, Daniele e Maria (1973) is the tale of a forbidden romance between a rich and reclusive bo...

Bluebeard
1972
Writer
Baron von Sepper is an Austrian aristocrat noted for his blue-toned beard, and his appetite for beautiful wives. His latest spouse, an American beauty...

Long Live Robin Hood
1971
Story
Also known as The Scalawag Bunch - This bunch is none other than the Merry Men of Sherwood Forest and their feisty leader, Robin Hood. This is a '70s ...

The Red Tent
1969
Screenplay
Torn by personal guilt, Italian General Umberto Nobile reminisces about his 1928 failed Arctic expedition aboard the airship Italia.

Coup D'Etat
1969
Screenplay, Story
Italy, 1972. Political elections are taking place and Christian Democrat victory is expected; but the electronic computer of the Ministry of the Inter...

A Place for Lovers
1968
Screenplay
Globe-trotting clothes-horse Julia, who's harboring a secret, embarks on a 10-day fling with Valerio in Italy.

The Black Sheep
1968
Screenplay, Story
Mario and Filippo are two twin brothers, the honorable one want to bring morality back into Italian political life, as president of the Commission for...

The Bastard
1968
Writer
A criminal (Giuliano Gemma) seeks vengeance when his double-dealing brother (Klaus Kinski) steals his jewels and mutilates his shooting hand.

Better a Widow
1968
Writer, Story
Tom Proby is a representative from a British engineering firm sent to Sicily to convince the landowners (all in the Mafia) to allow his company to bui...

The Girl Who Couldn't Say No
1968
Screenplay, Story
Childhood friends Franco and Jolanda accidentally meet again after 15 years and both know it is love. This comedy traces their troubled relationship.

Guns for San Sebastian
1968
Writer
Leon Alastray is an outlaw who has been given sanctuary by Father John, whom he then escorts to the village of San Sebastian. The village is deserted,...

Operation San Pietro
1967
Story, Screenplay
Small time crook Napoleone falls into an unlikely gang made up of a gangster, called The Baron, and his two cohorts, Agonia and The Captain, where Nap...

Kill Me Quick, I'm Cold
1967
Screenplay
Giovanna and Franco are lovers pretending to be brother and sister in order to con unsuspecting marks while staying in the most luxurious locales thro...

Per amore... per magia...
1967
Story, Screenplay
There was once upon a time the Grand Duchy of Forilalì where Aladdin lived. After taking part in many robberies, he decided to turn honest for the lov...

A Rose for Everyone
1967
Writer
A vivacious woman tries to please all of her lovers but finds she can't handle the jealousy that erupts among them.

The Treasure of San Gennaro
1966
Story, Screenplay
A pair of Americans want to perform the greatest robbery: the treasure of San Gennaro, in Napoli.

The Battle of the Mods
1966
Screenplay
In Liverpool there's a gang war between the Mods (who dress in the latest fashions and styles) and the Rockers (who are more into the '50s "greaser" l...

How Do I Love You?
1966
Story
Gigliola is a young and humble Neapolitan swimmer who will compete in a competition in Spain and finds herself falling for the fiance of her best frie...

Z7 Operation Rembrandt
1966
Writer
A German scientist takes refuge in an unnamed South American country, and finishes the development of a weapon of mass destruction. Lesky, is assistan...

Weekend, Italian Style
1965
Screenplay, Story
Manager Marletti goes to the sea to meet his wife Giuliana to spend the weekend with her and many friends. After three days Marletti comes back drivin...

Un amore
1965
Screenplay
The love life of an aging architect used to love affairs with call girls, who in the end settles down with a girl of his class but still longs for the...

The Dirty Game
1965
Writer
A U.S. intelligence general recalls three Cold War cases of Soviet, French and Italian spies.

I Kill, You Kill
1965
Screenplay
Six sketches with as many ways of murdering someone, and getting away with it.

Love and Marriage
1964
Writer
An anthology comedy with segments about love and marriage.

Attack and Retreat
1964
Screenplay, Story
Chronicle of the unheralded and unsuccessful invasion of the Soviet Union by the Italian army during World War II.

Thor and the Amazon Women
1963
Producer
A race of Amazon warriors is enslaving the men of a country, and the mighty Thor is called upon to help them regain their freedom.
Russia sotto inchiesta
1963
Writer
Two Italians, Sandro and Lorenzo, are traveling through the Soviet Union. Lorenzo has been to Russia before and now, accompanying his friend, gives hi...

The Attic
1963
Writer
In the 1960s, Silvana, a beautiful girl from the countryside, decides to spend the night in Rome after missing the last bus home. Without a place to s...

The Girl Who Knew Too Much
1963
Story, Screenplay
A tourist witnesses a murder and finds herself caught up in a series of bloody killings.

Beach Casanova
1962
Screenplay
Mr. Edmond is a middle-aged playboy, living by his wits on the Riviera. Among the women with whom Edmond dallies are three gorgeous ladies.
La leggenda di Fra Diavolo
1962
Screenplay
Adventure about the life of legendary bandi Fra Diavolo (played by Tony Russel).

Plains of Battle
1962
Writer
Despite the disagreement of their mother, the sons of old Taras Bulba are taken to the Dnieper camp on their return from a Kiev seminary, to teach the...

My Son, the Hero
1962
Story, Screenplay
Krios, the youngest of the Titans, may be the least strong of the seven brothers whose strength comes from their mother, earth-goddess Gaia, but is by...

Marco Polo
1962
Writer
Italian explorer rescues the daughter of the Mongol leader Kublai Khan, meets a hermit who has invented gunpowder and builds a cannon.

The Witch's Curse
1962
Writer
Maciste travels to Hell to find a witch and make her undo a curse she put on the surface world.

Violent Life
1962
Story
Tommaso Puzzilli is a boy who grew up in the suburb of Pietralata outside Rome. Not having a job, Tommaso and his friends are committing crimes to mak...

Musketeers of the Sea
1962
Story
Three pirates are saved from a shipwreck and seize a galleon bound for Maracaibo, where they will save the governor from a conspiracy. Italian adventu...

Taras Bulba
1962
Writer
Italian adaptation of the historical novella of the same name by Nikolai Gogol.

Madame
1961
Screenplay
Catherine Hubscher, who washes the shirts of young Napoleon and other soldiers fighting the Revolution, falls in love with Sergeant Lefebvre. Circumst...

Divorce Italian Style
1961
Story, Screenplay
Ferdinando Cefalù is desperate to marry his cousin, Angela, but he is married to Rosalia and divorce is illegal in Italy. To get around the law, he tr...

Duel of the Titans
1961
Screenplay
Twin brothers were raised by wolves, revolt against tyranny in pre-Roman Italy and then come to a parting of the ways as they lead their people toward...

Battle of the Worlds
1961
Writer
Dr. Fred Steele (Umberto Orsini) and Eve Barnett (Maya Brent) work together at an astronomical station on a bucolic island. The station's scientists l...

Duel of Champions
1961
Screenplay
A Roman nobleman, Horatius leads an imperial legion during the long and bloody war between the Romans and the Albans. A desperate arrangement is agre...

Joseph and His Brethren
1961
Screenplay
A brother is cast out from his family, sold in to slavery and then returns years later as a man of power - but shows forgiveness and compassion to his...

The Colossus of Rhodes
1961
Story, Screenplay
While on holiday in Rhodes, Athenian war hero Darios becomes involved in two different plots to overthrow the tyrannical king, one from Rhodian patrio...

Pigeon Shoot
1961
Screenplay
Young man Marco Laudato, after the '8/9/1943's WW2 armistice, enlists in the Italian Social Republic army, attending the last days of the old regime...

Odissea nuda
1961
Writer
A director arrives in Tahiti to make a film, but soon he lets himself be captured by the exotic charm of the local places and beauties. with E. Salern...

Unexpected
1961
Writer
An English teacher seduces a young student in the company of his wife to help him in an ambitious plan with the kidnapping of a newborn baby of a weal...

Constantine and the Cross
1961
Story, Screenplay
Constantine is fighting against Barbarians with his father when he is called to Rome. In his way to Rome, he falls in an ambush planned by Maxence, wh...

The Giants of Thessaly
1960
Screenplay
In order to placate the angry gods, who have allowed Thessaly to be overrun with barbarian invaders and beset with natural disasters, King Jason takes...

Esther and the King
1960
Writer
Recently widowed Persian King Ahasuerus wants to marry the beautiful Esther. But Esther is a Jewess, and Haman, the king's evil minister, is spreading...

The Dolphins
1960
Screenplay, Story
An acid portrait of Italian youth at the time, I DELFINI follows a dreary season of discontent and viciousness in the lives of a thoroughly unpleasant...

Long Night in '43
1960
Screenplay
1943. The affair between Anna, unhappily married to wheelchair-bound Pino, and deserter Franco unfolds in foggy Ferrara, intertwining with the power s...

Colossus and the Amazon Queen
1960
Screenplay
Two muscle-men come up against a tribe of Amazon women.

Assignment: Outer Space
1960
Writer
Interplanetary News reporter Ray Peterson is assigned aboard a space station in the 21st Century.

The Warrior Empress
1960
Writer
The poetess Sappho led an uprising against the corrupt government of the island of Lesbos.

Run with the Devil
1960
Screenplay
The trials and tribulations of a group of artist friends and a gay gallery owner living in the Via Margutta neighbourhood of Rome. Stefano is a talen...

Black Sunday
1960
Screenplay
A vengeful witch, Asa Vajda, and her fiendish servant, Igor Jauvitch, return from the grave and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of the wit...

Siege of Syracuse
1960
Screenplay
Syracuse lies between the warring nations of Rome and Carthage; as long as the balance of power between the nations remains intact, both nations are w...

Messalina
1960
Story, Screenplay
Messalina was the Roman noblewoman who inveigled ageing emperor Claudio into marriage. Once ensconced on the throne, Messalina launched a reign of ter...

Carthage in Flames
1960
Screenplay
Historical drama depicting the last of the Punic Wars between the Roman Republic and Carthage.

The Giant of Marathon
1959
Screenplay
A Greek soldier leads the fight against an invading Persian army.

Legions of the Nile
1959
Screenplay, Story
Octavio secretly sent his consul Curridio to Alexandria in a final attempt to reach peace. In the city, he meets Berenice, a mysterious and beautiful ...

The Last Days of Pompeii
1959
Writer
Glaucus, a demobilized centurion returns home to Pompeii to find his father murdered by a gang of black-hooded Christian robbers that terrorizes the c...

The Facts of Murder
1959
Screenplay
A police inspector comes into contact with people of all types and dispositions during a grueling murder investigation.

European Nights
1959
Writer
A tour of the nightlife in Rome, Paris, London, Madrid, Vienna, Brussels and more. Episodes presenting famous artists and people performing.

The Great Deception
1959
Writer
Burgundy 1728. Old count Antoine d'Eon is overjoyed. His daughter-in-law has finally given birth to a boy and he will at long last be able to transmit...

Esterina
1959
Screenplay
Esterina, a young war orphan, joins two truck drivers, Gino and Piero, on their trips along Northern Italy. She wants to find her luck in the big city...

Hercules Unchained
1959
Screenplay
En route to Thebes for an important diplomatic mission, Hercules drinks from a magic spring and loses his memory. He spends most of the movie in the p...

Soledad
1959
Writer
Italian comedy

The Warrior and the Slave Girl
1958
Screenplay
Marcus Numidius, a Roman tribune sent to Armenia to put down a gladiators' revolt, captures the rebels' popular leader, Aselepius. Princess Amira, wit...

Cannon Serenade
1958
Writer

È arrivata la parigina
1958
Story, Screenplay
An ambitious French girl who moved to Italy to be an actress cannot break through and then opts for a normal life.

The Italians They Are Crazy
1958
Story
In a German prison camp, some Italian prisoners bet with the commander that they will be able to build a church in two hours.

Hercules
1958
Screenplay
In this melange of characters and events from separate mythological stories, Hercules, demigod and superman, arrives in the ancient Greek kingdom of I...

The Love Specialist
1957
Screenplay
A Texas girl wins a trip to Italy where she meets a prince who's afraid to admit that he's flat broke (so is she). They strike up an affair, but thing...

Doctor and the Healer
1957
Co-Writer
Francesco, a young doctor, is appointed doctor to the imaginary village of Pianetta in the province of Avellino, but is immediately in competition wit...

The Wide Blue Road
1957
Screenplay
Squarciò, a fisherman, lives with his family on a small island off the Dalmatian coast of Italy. Like his fellow villagers, Squarciò struggles against...

Il Grido
1957
Screenplay
A sugar-refinery worker flees his Northern Italy town after a woman refuses his marriage proposal.

Roland the Mighty
1956
Writer
In this sword-and-sandal saga set on the steppes of Asia, Roland, leader of the Paladin troops, who must proves his mettle against the dreaded Saracen...

The House of Intrigue
1956
Screenplay
A radio operator for the British Army is captured in a Nazi-occupied Dutch city.

The Railroad Man
1956
Screenplay
Train operator Andrea Marcocci has to witness the suicide of a desperate man who jumps in front of his train. Under the influence of this shock he sta...

The Awakening
1956
Screenplay
Directed by the incredibly prolific Mario Camerini, Suor Letizia was released in English-speaking regions as When Angels Don't Fly and The Awakening. ...

War and Peace
1956
Screenplay
The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Great Patriotic War of 1812 against Napoleon's invad...

Rice Girl
1956
Screenplay
The 19-year-old Elena, who is as pretty as she is bright, works as a rice girl for the landlord Guerrini. Having become aware of her name, he finds ou...

The Miller's Beautiful Wife
1955
Screenplay
A lecherous governor of Naples in 1680 lusts after the wives of several peasants, particularly after the miller's wife Carmela. The miller himself pla...

Divisione Folgore
1954
Screenplay
In the summer of 1942, during the Second World War, a group of young paratroopers from the Folgore Division, after having been subjected to a long and...

The Queen of Babylon
1954
Screenplay
In this Biblical epic, a brave Chaldean rebel takes on his evil nemesis, a cruel Assyrian king. En route to his fateful meeting, the rebel hides in th...

Attila
1954
Screenplay, Story
Attila, the leader of the barbarian Huns and called by the Romans "The Scourge of God", sweeps onto the Italian peninsula, defeating all of the armies...

Knights of the Queen
1954
Writer
A new adventure for the Dumas musketeers who this time must save the Infanta of Spain from the intrigues of the Prince of Condé who wants to take the ...

Ulysses
1954
Screenplay
A movie adaptation of Homer's second epic, that talks about Ulysses' efforts to return to his home after the end of ten years of war.

Mambo
1954
Writer
A young and poor Venetian woman is invited to a masquerade ball by a charming count.

Submarine Attack
1954
Screenplay
During WWII, handsome young Italian sub commander and his crew torpedo Allied freighters and transport ships for the Axis then rescue the occasional s...

Human Torpedoes
1954
Screenplay
A team of highly trained Italian seamen are taken to the island of Stampalia where there are to take their torpedo-laden attack craft on a daring atta...

The Ship of Condemned Women
1953
Writer
After murdering her illegitimate baby, Isabella (Tania Weber) pins the blame on her innocent cousin Consuelo (May Britt). Despite the strenuous effort...

The She-Wolf
1953
Screenplay
A woman in her thirties is a single mother of a teenager daughter, and both are in love with the same young soldier. Mother sacrifices herself for Mar...

Jolanda, the Daughter of the Black Corsair
1953
Screenplay
Collected at the age of two, under extreme conditions, by a company of Gypsies, Jolly grew up among them, together with the man who accompanied her.

Hell Raiders of the Deep
1953
Writer
A crack team of Italian naval divers plan to attach high explosives to the hulls of Royal navy warships anchored in Gibraltar harbour.

Sunday Heroes
1952
Story
Gino Bardi is a centre-forward in a football team which is about to be relegated to the second division. Just before a very important match a girl he ...

I tre corsari
1952
Screenplay
The castle of the counts of Ventimiglia is conquered by the spanish Van Gould, who kills the count and sends his three sons in the Antilles. The ship ...

Toto and the Kings of Rome
1952
Screenplay
An aging, down-and-out public employee must face the primary school examination.

Sensualità
1952
Story, Screenplay
Refugee Franca Gabre comes to the Po Valley with intent to use her obvious attributes and man-swaying talents to gain some security. She targets farm-...

Tormento del passato
1952
Screenplay
A gangster comes back to Rome after many years and meets his old flame and their daughter.

Vacation with a Gangster
1952
Screenplay
A group of boys calling themselves The Monte Cristo gang find a note from an innocent prisoner and set out to free him from a fortress-like prison.

Appointment for Murder
1952
Story, Screenplay
A woman has jumped or been pushed from five stories of an apartment house. The detective on the case lives there, and he discovers that the woman's es...
Gli undici moschettieri
1952
Director
Documentary directed by Ennio De Concini and Fausto Saraceni.

Brothers of Italy
1952
Story
Capodistria, 1915. Captain Nazario Sauro, an officer in the Austrian Navy, is one of those patriots who militate for Italy to enter World War I. When ...

Double Cross
1951
Screenplay
A businessman is wrongly accused and convicted for the murder of his associate.

Outlaw Girl
1950
Screenplay
Beppe Musolino is falsely accused of murder. He is tried and once found guilty is imprisoned. Unexpectedly he escape from prison and to survive he sta...

L'ebreo errante
1948
Screenplay
Matthew, a rich nationalist Jew and a contemporary of Jesus, regards the latter as an obstacle in this struggle to free their people from the Roman yo...