Ettore Scola italian director

Scola was born in Trevico, Avellino, Campania. He entered the film industry as a screenwriter in 1953, and directed his first film,Let's Talk About Women, in 1964. In 1974 Scola enjoyed international success with We All Loved Each Other So Much (C'eravamo tanto amati), a wide fresco of post-World War II Italian life and politics, dedicated to fellow director Vittorio De Sica. The film won the Golden Prize at the 9th Moscow International Film Festival.^[1] In 1976 he won the Prix de la mise en scène at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival for Brutti, sporchi e cattivi.

Scola made further successful films, including A Special Day (1977), That Night In Varennes (1982), What Time Is It? (1989) andCaptain Fracassa's Journey (1990). He directed close to 40 films in some 40 years.^{[citation needed]} His film Passione d'amore, adapted from a nineteenth-century novel, was adapted by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine into the award-winning musical Passion. He was a member of the jury at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival.^{[citation needed]}.

Scola died in Rome on January 19, 2016 at the age of 84.^[2]

Filmography as director[edit]

• Let's Talk About Women (1964)
• Thrilling (1965)
• Hard Time for Princes (1965)
• The Devil in Love (1966)
• Will Our Heroes Be Able to Find Their Friend Who Has Mysteriously Disappeared in Africa? (1968)
• Police Chief Pepe (1969)
• The Pizza Triangle (1970)
• My Name Is Rocco Papaleo (1971)
• The Most Wonderful Evening of My Life (1972)
• Trevico-Turin: Voyage in Fiatnam (1973)
• Festival Unità (1973) - documentary
• We All Loved Each Other So Much (1974)
• Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen (1976)
• Down and Dirty (1976)
• A Special Day (1977)
• Viva l'Italia! (1977)
• La terrazza (1980)
• Passion of Love (1981)
• That Night in Varennes (1982)
• Vorrei che volo (1982) - documentary
• Le Bal (1983)
• Macaroni (1985)
• Imago urbis (1987) - documentary
• The Family (1987)
• Splendor (1988)
• What Time Is It? (1989)
• Captain Fracassa's Journey (1990)
• Mario, Maria and Mario (1993)
• Romanzo di un giovane povero (1995)
• The Dinner (1998)
• Unfair Competition (2001)
• Un altro mondo è possibile (2001) - documentary
• Lettere dalla Palestina (2002) - documentary
• Gente di Roma (2003)
• How Strange to Be Named Federico (2013) - documentary