LUIGI MAGNI

Luigi Magni (Rome, March 21, 1928) is an Italian director, screenwriter and writer.
He began his career as a writer and subject writer in collaboration with Age & Scarpelli. In 1956 he finally settled in the world of cinema working with the most important Italian directors of the time: Mario Monicelli, Luciano Salce, Mauro Bolognini, Camillo Mastrocinque, Giorgio Bianchi, Pasquale Festa Campanile, Carlo Lizzani and Alberto Lattuada.
In 1968 he moved behind the camera directing Vonetta McGee, Enzo Cerusico and Renzo Montagnani in the comedy Faustina. But the success will come to Magni with his second work, In the Year of the Lord (1969), the film that outlines his trademark: comedies set in the papal and Risorgimento Rome, swaying between the farcical and the dramatic, not forgetting the exquisitely "Roman" language. From this film begins the collaboration of Luigi Magni with Nino Manfredi.
After La Tosca (1973) with Monica Vitti, In the name of Papa Re (1977) he won the David di Donatello for the best screenplay. Among the other films: According to Pontius Pilate (1987), 'O Re (1988), In the name of the sovereign people (1990), Enemy of childhood (1995.