Dino Risi

Dino Risi was born on Dec 23, 1916 in Italy. Dino Risi's big-screen debut came with Piccolo mondo antico directed by Mario Soldati in 1941. Dino Risi is known for Scent of a Woman directed by Martin Brest, Al Pacino stars as Lt. Col. Frank Slade and Chris O'Donnell as Charlie Simms. Dino Risi has got 13 awards and 15 nominations so far. The most recent award Dino Risi achieved is Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists. The upcoming new movie Dino Risi plays is Scent of a Woman which will be released on Jan 08, 1993.

Dino Risi became a movie director by chance. In 1940 he met Alberto Lattuada at a friend's boutique. Lattuada told him they needed an assistant director for the movie Le mariage de minuit (1941). Risi accepted just for fun, not for work. Later, he became a psychiatrist and wrote some articles for a local newspaper in his spare time.After the Second World War, he met a producer who financed his short films. One of these, Buio in sala (1950), was bought by Carlo Ponti. At that point, Risi decided to become a movie director. So he went to Rome and wrote the plot of Pauvres mais beaux (1957) which made him famous. But the film that changed his life forever was Le Fanfaron (1962). At the opening night, Risi and producer Mario Cecchi Gori were waiting outside the movie theater. They were worried because no viewers had been coming to see the movie. So Risi went back home with much disappointment. However, the next day all the tickets were sold out and Risi became a star.