Bernardino Zapponi

Bernardino Zapponi

1927-09-04 Rome, Italy 51 Credits

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Fate un bel sorriso

Fate un bel sorriso

2000

Writer

Writing

Antonio is a seventy-year-old gentleman, a former strict and impeccable judge. Having refused to accept his daughter's hospitality, he found himself i...

Giovani e belli

Giovani e belli

1996

Writer

3.3
Writing

Luca, a young man from a rich family, travels to Rome. Here he encounters Gino, who makes a living with petty theft.

Miracolo italiano

Miracolo italiano

1994

Story, Screenplay

4.1
Writing

7 segments about life in 1990s Italy: two MPs from the opposite sides of the political spectrum spend the night together; during their honeymoon, a wo...

All Ladies Do It

All Ladies Do It

1992

Screenplay

5.0
Writing

After five years of marriage, Diana discovers the joys of adultery, claiming that she can save her failing relationship through betrayal.

Paprika

Paprika

1991

Screenplay, Story

7.1
Writing

Mimma starts working in Madame Colette’s brothel to help her boyfriend financially. There she is rechristened “Paprika,” and falls in love with her fi...

I'll Be Going Now

I'll Be Going Now

1991

Screenplay, Story

6.1
Writing

After eighteen years of psychiatric care, the former bank manager Augusto Scrivani returns home from his daughter-in-law Carla. Dino Risi directs a me...

Teresa

Teresa

1987

Writer

4.2
Writing

Teresa is a young widow who is concentrated on her little business until she hires Gino.

Stuff for the Rich

Stuff for the Rich

1987

Screenplay

5.2
Writing

3 episodes set in Monte Carlo. In the first one a priest is compelled to become the lover of a princess. In the second, a con woman tries to cheat an ...

Rimini Rimini

Rimini Rimini

1987

Screenplay, Story

4.8
Writing

Funny, entertaining comedy with a few storylines. All of them have one thing in common - a resort town of Rimini in Italy.

I Am an ESP

I Am an ESP

1985

Story, Screenplay

5.7
Writing

Roberto Razzi, skeptical and convinced atheist, is the conductor of the Futuro program, in which he unmasks the most common tricks and deceptions that...

He's Worse than Me

He's Worse than Me

1985

Screenplay, Story

6.2
Writing

Two reckless friends Leonardo (Adriano Celentano) and Luciano (Renato Potstsetto) are just doing whatever they want and getting into endless alteratio...

This and That

This and That

1983

Writer

4.7
Writing

Two episodes. The 1st is 'Amore impossibile' (Impossible love). Giulio is a comic book draftsman. He is passing through a creativity depressed period....

State buoni se potete

State buoni se potete

1983

Screenplay, Story

6.7
Writing

Around the year 1500, the Italian priest Don Filippo Neri helps street kids and orphans in his poor little chapel.

God Makes and Then Pairs Them Up

God Makes and Then Pairs Them Up

1982

Story, Screenplay

5.1
Writing

At carnival, a girl disguised as a devil seduces the parish priest of a village. She becomes pregnant, but the priest can not support his intention to...

Sesso e volentieri

Sesso e volentieri

1982

Screenplay

4.4
Writing

Ten segments, all starring Johnny Dorelli and all having sex and sexual perversions as main theme.

The Marquis of Grillo

The Marquis of Grillo

1981

Story

7.8
Writing

In 18th-century Rome, impish aristocrat Onofrio del Grillo amuses himself by playing pranks on all sorts of people — his reactionary family and fellow...

Nobody's Perfect

Nobody's Perfect

1981

Story

5.5
Writing

Guerrino, a prematurely widowed businessman, falls in love with Chantal, a former paratrooper in the German army who changed sex a few years earlier.

Sweet Pea

Sweet Pea

1981

Screenplay, Story

5.9
Writing

Cristiano, aged thirteen, seems to be a teen-ager with clear ideas about his future. One evening he meets May, a stranger, who is probably drunk and, ...

Ghost of Love

Ghost of Love

1981

Screenplay

7.0
Writing

Over two decades after their affair ended, a married man is haunted by the presence of his former lover.

Habibi, amor mío

Habibi, amor mío

1981

Writer

3.5
Writing

Young Stefano falls in love with a Spanish girl, Habibi. The two become engaged, but after a happy period, Stefano will discover the girl's betrayals....

City of Women

City of Women

1980

Screenplay, Story

7.0
Writing

The charismatic Snaporaz encounters an alluring woman on a train and pursues her through a forest. He ends up at a hotel populated by women gathered f...

Dear Father

Dear Father

1979

Screenplay, Story

6.4
Writing

In Caro papá, Dino Risi is telling the story of the decadent lifestyle, and dysfunctional family, of a wealthy businessman (played to perfection by Ri...

Traffic Jam

Traffic Jam

1979

Screenplay

6.9
Writing

A tremendous congestion hits the Rome highway ring. The biggest traffic jam ever seen lasts more than 36 hours. At the beginning the people blocked in...

The New Monsters

The New Monsters

1977

Screenplay, Story

6.9
Writing

A 1977 Italian comedy film composed of 14 episodes, directed by Dino Risi, Ettore Scola and Mario Monicelli. It is a sequel to I mostri, made in 1963.

Lost Soul

Lost Soul

1977

Screenplay

6.6
Writing

Bizarre events keep occurring in an old mansion, and it's soon become obvious that something mysterious is up in the attic.

Fellini's Casanova

Fellini's Casanova

1976

Screenplay

7.0
Writing

Casanova is a libertine, collecting seductions and sexual feats. But he is really interested in someone, and is he really an interesting person? Is he...

Languidi baci... perfide carezze

Languidi baci... perfide carezze

1976

Writer

Writing

Italian romance starring Giovanna Ralli, Gigi Proietti and Cristiano Censi

Plot of Fear

Plot of Fear

1976

Writer

5.4
Writing

Plot of Fear tells the story of a decadent weekend party full of orgies and drugs on the outskirts of Milan. After two deaths occur Inspector Lomenzo ...

The Career of a Chambermaid

The Career of a Chambermaid

1976

Screenplay, Story

5.0
Writing

This slight skewering of the mindset of the Fascist era when Italy’s “White Telephone” films (conservative minded sophisticated comedy-dramas revolvi...

Duck in Orange Sauce

Duck in Orange Sauce

1975

Screenplay

6.2
Writing

When his wife wants a divorce -- in preference of a romantic Frenchman -- husband Livio seemingly accepts. But when he sets up a last weekend together...

Leonor

Leonor

1975

Writer

5.6
Writing

Richard is a medieval nobleman. After his first wife dies in an accident and is buried in the family vault, he remarries and has children by his secon...

E il Casanova di Fellini?

E il Casanova di Fellini?

1975

as Self

Acting

During his preparation for his film on Casanova Fellini asks a number of renowned actors to give him their view on the character of Casanova.

Deep Red

Deep Red

1975

Screenplay

7.7
Writing

An English pianist living in Rome witnesses the brutal murder of his psychic neighbor. With the help of a tenacious young reporter, he tries to discov...

Stardust

Stardust

1973

Screenplay

6.6
Writing

The lives of two local professional dancers change suddenly as American soldiers stop in their town hoping to be entertained in accordance with the Br...

Dirty Weekend

Dirty Weekend

1973

Writer

5.3
Writing

A man and his mistress have just taken off for a weekend romp when they're kidnapped by a trio of bank robbers. They wind up becoming media "stars" as...

Roma

Roma

1972

Screenplay, Story

7.2
Writing

A virtually plotless, gaudy, impressionistic portrait of Rome through the eyes of one of its most famous citizens.

The Clowns

The Clowns

1970

Screenplay

6.8
Writing

Fellini exposes his great attraction for the clowns and the world of the circus first recalling a childhood experience when the circus arrives nearby ...

The Priest's Wife

The Priest's Wife

1970

Screenplay

6.1
Writing

After discovering her boyfriend is married, a young woman attempts suicide but survives and falls for the priest who took her call, leading to complic...

Viva Cangaceiro

Viva Cangaceiro

1969

Screenplay

6.7
Writing

Brazil, the 1920s. The sadistic colonel Minas massacres the hometown of a famous cangaceiro (a kind of revolutionary bandit). The only survivor is a y...

Satyricon

Satyricon

1969

Screenplay, Story

6.7
Writing

After his young lover, Gitone, leaves him for another man, Encolpio decides to kill himself, but a sudden earthquake destroys his home before he has a...

I See Naked

I See Naked

1969

Story

6.4
Writing

Seven sketches including the title sketch "I See Naked" in which a fashion editor begins to see naked women everywhere he goes.

Fellini: A Director’s Notebook

Fellini: A Director’s Notebook

1969

as Self

6.7
Acting

Fellini discusses his views of making motion pictures and his unorthodox procedures. He seeks inspiration in various out of the way places. During thi...

Fellini: A Director’s Notebook

Fellini: A Director’s Notebook

1969

Screenplay

6.7
Writing

Fellini discusses his views of making motion pictures and his unorthodox procedures. He seeks inspiration in various out of the way places. During thi...

A Sky Full of Stars for a Roof

A Sky Full of Stars for a Roof

1968

Screenplay

5.7
Writing

The bandit Pratt, looking for Tim, who is responsible for the death of his two sons, attacks a caravan killing all the passengers. Harry, the vagabond...

Spirits of the Dead

Spirits of the Dead

1968

Adaptation, Screenplay

6.3
Writing

Anthology film from three European directors based on stories by Edgar Allan Poe: a cruel countess haunted by a ghostly horse, a sadistic young man ha...

Caprice Italian Style

Caprice Italian Style

1968

Writer

6.2
Writing

The film consists of six short stories created by different directors, but all the stories share one thing: a warm irony to current events.

Toby Dammit

Toby Dammit

1968

Writer

Writing

During a trip to Rome, a debauched Shakespearian actor is tormented by the Italian film industry, fans, the press and the Devil, who appears as a litt...

The Witches

The Witches

1967

Story, Screenplay

6.1
Writing

Five short stories loosely dealing with the roles of women in society. A superstar actress travels to a mountain resort, only to evoke jealousy from w...

Cinecittà: sui set dei film western italiani (1967) - Spaghetti Western

1967

Acting

Video containing a fragment of the journalistic reportage "Roma 4 - Passeggiate per la città" (1967) by Bernardino Zapponi and Stefano De Stefani, whe...

Cinecittà: sui set dei film western italiani (1967) - Spaghetti Western

1967

Author

Video containing a fragment of the journalistic reportage "Roma 4 - Passeggiate per la città" (1967) by Bernardino Zapponi and Stefano De Stefani, whe...

È l'amor che mi rovina

È l'amor che mi rovina

1951

Screenplay

7.0
Writing

A naive clerk finds himself involved in the theft of a ring containing a dangerous liquid.