Dario Fo

Dario Fo

Born: March 24, 1926
Died: October 13, 2016
in Sangiano, Varese, Italy
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Dario Fo (born 24 March 1926) is an Italian satirist, playwright, theatre director, actor, composer and recipient of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature. His dramatic work employs comedic methods of the ancient Italian commedia dell'arte, a theatrical style popular with the working classes. Fo's works are characterised by criticisms of organised crime, political corruption, political murders, most of the Catholic Church doctrine and conflict in the Middle East. His plays often depend on improvisation, commedia dell'arte style. His plays, especially Mistero Buffo, have been translated into 30 languages and, when performed outside Italy, they are often modified to reflect local political and other issues. Fo encourages directors and translators to modify his plays as they see fit, as he finds this in accordance to the commedia dell'arte tradition of on-stage improvisation. Fo currently owns and operates a theatre company with his wife, actress Franca Rame. Upon awarding him the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature, the committee highlighted Fo as a writer "who emulates the jesters of the Middle Ages in scourging authority and upholding the dignity of the downtrodden".

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Now and Forever Time to Reclaim Life
Title: Now and Forever Time to Reclaim Life
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: October 4, 2018
Type: Movie
“A future historian, if he or she is honest, will feel a legitimate need to place the decade 1968 to 1978 alongside the great events that changed the world, such as the French and Russian Revolutions”. This was the guiding idea to which we entrusted, with considerable emotion, our personal memory and the archive footage that we took and collected during those years and which represent the physical body of the battles fought and victories gained everywhere during those ten years. Their value, in a country like Italy which has lost its memory, is a rare witness to the power of human dignity in a constant struggle for its redemption.
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La voce di Fantozzi
Title: La voce di Fantozzi
Character: Sé stesso
Released: September 2, 2017
Type: Movie
Venice 74 -
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Callas
Title: Callas
Released: December 4, 2015
Type: Movie
For the first time together, Dario Fo and Paola Cortellesi take the spectator through a journey in the life of Maria Callas in the last play written by Fo and the late Franca Rame.
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27 aprile Racconto di un evento
Title: 27 aprile Racconto di un evento
Character: Self
Released: October 16, 2014
Type: Movie
The documentary starts from the sanctification of Pope Giovanni XXIII and Pope Giovanni Paolo II and tells the scenes on the figures of the two saints and popes of Pope Francesco I, with a stock image of three Popes enriched with new images of Pope Francesco I at the time of his election before it is presented to the whole world. A journey through exclusive places and partly unpublished Vatican.
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Woodstock 5 Stelle
Title: Woodstock 5 Stelle
Character: Dario Fo
Released: September 26, 2010
Type: Movie
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Vittorio D.
Title: Vittorio D.
Character: Self
Released: September 17, 2009
Type: Movie
A documentary about Vittorio de Sica with clips of his films and testimonials from friends and family.
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Zero An Investigation Into 9-11
Title: Zero An Investigation Into 9-11
Character: Self
Released: June 15, 2008
Type: Movie
ZERO: An Investigation into 9/11, has one central thesis - that the official version of the events surrounding the attacks on 9/11 can not be true. This brand new feature documentary explores the latest scientific evidence and reveals dramatic new witness testimony, which directly conflicts with the US Government's account.
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Venetian Rascal Goes to America
Title: Venetian Rascal Goes to America
Character: Old Johan Padan (voice)
Released: October 4, 2002
Type: Movie
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Title: Das Jahrhundert des Theaters
Character: Self
Released: April 6, 2002
Type: TV
"The Century of the Theater" - From the "birth of the director" to the "heroes of modernity" - an overview of the world of theater - illuminates the interaction with the history of the past hundred years is also shown.
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The Blue Arrow
Title: The Blue Arrow
Character: Scarafoni (voice)
Released: December 5, 1996
Type: Movie
When Santa's helper La Befana falls ill and must take off a Christmas Eve, she recruits Scarafoni to help deliver all the toys. No one but the toys knows is that Scarafoni plans to auction off the toys to the highest bidder, which means the toys won't make it to the children who have been good all year and deserve them. The toys decide to deliver themselves, and the story follows them as they struggle to avoid the heartless Scarafoni and to find their true homes.
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Musica per vecchi animali
Title: Musica per vecchi animali
Character: Lucio Lucertola
Released: November 16, 1989
Type: Movie
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Title: I promessi sposi
Character: Azzeccagarbugli
Released: November 12, 1989
Type: TV
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Sempre più difficile
Title: Sempre più difficile
Character: self
Released: May 2, 1981
Type: Movie
This documentary is about the Italian small family circus, based on the old street theatre of the Commedia dell'Arte. Since World War II, they have diminished in number and today hardly exist anymore. They simply can't compete with modern times entertainment, symbolized by television. The film portrays and follows the Colombaioni family, six brothers and two sisters, their children and grand children. Most of them work in their own small circus(father, mother, children). Two of the brothers, Carlo and Alberto left the circus and now have a theatre show, based on their improvisation skills that they learned in the circus. The family is known by their collaboration with Frederico Fellini and Dario Fo. They appeared in many a Fellini movie -o.a. La Strada, Le Notti di Cabiria and I Clown.
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Domenica è sempre domenica
Title: Domenica è sempre domenica
Released: April 5, 1958
Type: Movie
A television broadcast launches a proclamation for amateurs: "If you know how to speak, you will know how to sing". The award mirage lured many person, with ambitions or financial problems, to enroll in the competition.
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March's Child
Title: March's Child
Character: (uncredited)
Released: February 28, 1958
Type: Movie
Francesca and Sandro meet, falls for each other and get married. But the differences between them are too many and the separation is around the corner.
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Villini a sorpresa
Title: Villini a sorpresa
Released: February 19, 1958
Type: Movie
A door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman finds himself caught up in a surreal misdeed, which takes place inside a cottage where the man has gone to introduce the product to a potential customer.
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Rascel-Fifì
Title: Rascel-Fifì
Character: Pupo - il biondo
Released: October 9, 1957
Type: Movie
Renato and Gedeon have just opened a nightclub in a disreputable area of New York, triggering the hostility of Gionata, a gang leader and owner of the nightclub across the street. Helped by the hoods of his gang, Gionata uses a couple of tricks to try and ruin his competitors. To begin with, he induces his friend Barbara, a vamp, to perform in a hot number in Renato and Gedeon's joint, so that the police intervene and close the club. The move fails, so Gionata decides to have Renatino, Renato's son, kidnapped by his men, which proves another flop. To make matters worse for Gionata, Michaela, his own daughter, has fallen in love with Renato, and sides with him and his partner...
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The Screwball
Title: The Screwball
Character: Achille
Released: March 20, 1956
Type: Movie
Achilles, a Hulot-like factotum for an evening newspaper, travels around looking for a scoop in the Milan of the "economic miracle."
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Elementary School
Title: Elementary School
Character: Tipografo
Released: December 29, 1954
Type: Movie
Dante Trilli, who has been teaching in his village school for about twenty years, wins a competition for Milan. Waiting for him is his childhood friend, where he is the janitor in the school where Trilli will teach.
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Io non sono un moderato
Title: Io non sono un moderato
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie