The Madonna della Pietà, otherwise known as La Pietà, is a marble sculpture of Jesus and Mary at Mount Golgotha representing the "Sixth Sorrow" of the Blessed Virgin Mary by Michelangelo Buonarroti, now in Saint Peter's Basilica, Vatican City. It is a key work of Italian Renaissance sculpture and often taken as the start of the High Renaissance.
Lucio Fulci was an Italian film director, screenwriter, and actor. Although he worked in a wide array of genres through a career spanning nearly five decades, including comedies and spaghetti Westerns, he garnered an international cult following for his giallo and horror films.
Francesco Benenato, known as Franco Franchi, was an Italian actor, comedian and singer.
Josef Richard Frings, was a German clergyman and Cardinal of the Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Cologne from 1942 to 1969. Considered a significant figure in Catholic resistance to Nazism, he was elevated to the cardinalate in 1946 by Pope Pius XII.
Edwige Fenech is a French-Italian actress and film producer. She is mostly known as the star of a series of commedia sexy all'italiana and giallo films released in the 1970s, which turned her into a sex symbol.
Francesco "Ciccio" Ingrassia was an Italian actor, comedian and film director.
Commedia all'italiana, or Italian-style comedy, is an Italian film genre born in Italy in the 1950s and developed in the 1960s and 1970s. It is widely considered to have started with Mario Monicelli's Big Deal on Madonna Street in 1958, and derives its name from the title of Pietro Germi's Divorce Italian Style (1961). According to most of the critics, La Terrazza (1980) by Ettore Scola is the last work considered part of the commedia all'italiana.
The Last Judgment is a 1961 commedia all'italiana film by Italian director Vittorio De Sica. It was coproduced with France.
Contraband is a 1980 poliziotteschi film directed by Lucio Fulci.
Pasquale Festa Campanile was an Italian screenwriter, film director and novelist, best known as a prominent exponent of the commedia all'italiana genre.
Franco and Ciccio were a comic comedy duo formed by Italian actors Franco Franchi (1928–1992) and Ciccio Ingrassia (1922–2003), particularly popular in the 1960s and 1970s. Their collaboration began in 1954 in the theatre field, and ended with Franchi's death in 1992. The two made their cinema debuts in 1960 with the film Appuntamento a Ischia. They remained active until 1984 when their last film together, Kaos, was shot, although there were some interruptions in 1973 and from 1975 to 1980.
The Eroticist is a 1972 Italian commedia sexy all'italiana film directed by Lucio Fulci. It had censorship problems and was banned shortly after its release. Later it was released in a heavily cut version and prohibited for persons under 18 years.
Francesco Massaro is an Italian director and screenwriter.
The musicarello is a film subgenre which emerged in Italy and which is characterised by the presence in main roles of young singers, already famous among their peers, and their new record album. In the films there are almost always tender and chaste love stories accompanied by the desire to have fun and dance without thoughts. Musicarelli reflect the desire and need for emancipation of young Italians, highlighting some generational frictions. The genre began in the late 1950s, and had its peak of production in the 1960s.
L'onorevole con l'amante sotto il letto is a 1981 commedia sexy all'italiana directed by Mariano Laurenti.
Francesca Romana Coluzzi was an Italian actress. A respected dramatic actress on stage, she is probably best known for her roles in the commedia sexy all'italiana.
My Sister in Law is an Italian commedia sexy all'italiana directed by Lucio Fulci and starring Edwige Fenech.
La liceale al mare con l'amica di papà is a 1980 commedia sexy all'italiana film directed by Marino Girolami and starring Renzo Montagnani. Although presented as the latest installment in the commercially successful Liceale series, the film, despite its title and the token blonde high school girl character, has little to no resemblance to earlier films starring Gloria Guida.
Hector the Mighty is a 1972 Italian comedy film directed by Enzo G. Castellari. A parody of Homer's Iliad set in modern times, it is loosely based on the 1966 novel Le roi des Mirmidous by Henri Viard and Bernard Zacharias.
My Pleasure Is Your Pleasure is a 1973 commedia sexy all'italiana anthology film written and directed by the cinematographer Claudio Racca, at his writing and directorial debut. It is loosely based on Honoré de Balzac's novel Les Cent Contes drolatiques (1832–1837).
