Dino De Laurentiis

Dino De Laurentiis (1919–2010) was an Italian film producer whose credits ranged from Federico Fellini’s La Strada to Serpico and Hannibal.

La Strada: Federico Fellini’s 1954 Italian drama about a poor young woman sold to a traveling strongman. De Laurentiis produced this early Fellini collaboration, which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
Federico Fellini: Italian film director known for works including La Strada, La Dolce Vita, and 8½. Fellini directed several of De Laurentiis’s most celebrated early productions.
Italian neorealism: A postwar Italian film movement marked by location shooting, social concerns, and ordinary protagonists. De Laurentiis began producing as Italian cinema was reshaped by this movement.
De Laurentiis Entertainment Group: An American film production and distribution company founded by Dino De Laurentiis in 1983. The company formalized his independent Hollywood operations and backed films such as Blue Velvet.
Nights of Cabiria: Federico Fellini’s 1957 drama following a resilient sex worker through Rome. De Laurentiis produced another landmark Fellini film during their Italian partnership.
Silvana Mangano: Italian actress whose screen roles included Bitter Rice and The Leopard. Mangano was De Laurentiis’s wife and a frequent star in films he produced.
Bitter Rice: Giuseppe De Santis’s 1949 Italian drama about seasonal rice workers and two women on the run. De Laurentiis’s production success helped establish him in postwar Italian cinema.
King Kong: John Guillermin’s 1976 adventure film, a remake of the 1933 monster movie. De Laurentiis’s costly remake became a major commercial production and demonstrated his appetite for spectacle.
Barbarella: Roger Vadim’s 1968 science-fiction film starring Jane Fonda as a spacefaring agent. Its lavish, playful production exemplifies De Laurentiis’s international genre filmmaking.
Carlo Ponti: Italian film producer whose credits include La Strada and Doctor Zhivago. Ponti was De Laurentiis’s contemporary and production partner in postwar Italian cinema.

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