Ruggero Maccari
# Ruggero Maccari

Ruggero Maccari (28 June 1919 – 8 May 1989) 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, Brutti sporchi e cattivi, or Adua e le compagne.

## Awards

He was nominated to the Academy Award for Dino Risi's Profumo di donna.

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 Io la conoscevo bene.

## Selected filmography

* Eleven Men and a Ball (1948)
* The Transporter (1950)
* Rome-Paris-Rome (1951)
* The Steamship Owner (1951)
* The Passaguai Family (1951)
* I, Hamlet (1952)
* The Dream of Zorro (1952)
* Sardinian Vendetta (1952)
* The Passaguai Family Gets Rich (1952)
* The Piano Tuner Has Arrived (1952)
* Beauties in Capri (1952)
* The Doctor of the Mad (1954)
* Toto Seeks Peace (1954)
* It Happened at the Police Station (1954)
* Tripoli, Beautiful Land of Love (1954)
* The Two Friends (1955)
* Red and Black (1955)
* Count Max (1957)
