Ruggero Maccari


Ruggero Maccari was an Italian screenwriter.
Specially known by his collaboration with film director and screenwriter Ettore Scola. He wrote Commedia all'italiana films such as The Easy Life, Down and Dirty, or Adua and Her Friends.

Awards

He was nominated to the Academy Award for Dino Risi's Scent of a Woman.
He won a David di Donatello for Ettore Scola's La famiglia; and he was a 4 time Nastro d'Argento winner for La famiglia, Scola's Passione d'amore and A Special Day, and Antonio Pietrangeli's I Knew Her Well.

Selected filmography

Eleven Men and a Ball The Transporter Rome-Paris-Rome The Steamship Owner The Passaguai Family I, Hamlet The Dream of Zorro Sardinian Vendetta The Passaguai Family Gets Rich The Piano Tuner Has Arrived Beauties in Capri The Doctor of the Mad Toto Seeks Peace It Happened at the Police Station Tripoli, Beautiful Land of Love The Two Friends Red and Black