Italian film great Monicelli dead

Monicelli (R) helped launch the careers of actors such as Marcello Mastroianni (L) One of the greats of post-war Italian cinema, Mario Monicelli, has killed himself by jumping out of a hospital window, media reports say. Monicelli, 95, was dubbed "father of Italian comedy" for directing films such as Amici Mei (My Dear Friends) and I Soliti Ignoti (Persons Unknown). He was said to have leapt from the fifth floor of a Rome hospital where he was being treated for terminal cancer. He received numerous awards and was nominated four times for an Oscar. Best known for his comedies, Monicelli also directed serious films Monicelli was admitted a few days ago to San Giovanni hospital where he was being treated for prostate cancer, reports said. He made his debut as a director in 1949 and won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival 10 years later for The Great War. The 1958 film I Soliti Ignoti - released in the US as Big Deal on Madonna Street and in the UK as Persons Unknown - helped launch the careers of Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale and Vittorio Gassman. Mario Monicelli directed 70 films, often focusing on stories about ordinary people confronted by extraordinary circumstances. A Very Little Man (1977) was one of his best-known works about a man who takes justice into his own hands after his son is killed in a robbery. Monicelli was known as politically left-wing and had called last year for students to protest against the government's proposals for cuts to the culture budget.This article is from the BBC News website. � British Broadcasting Corporation, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites.

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