Tonino Cervi

Producer

June 4, 1929 (72 years)

† April 1, 2002

Rome, Italy

Biography

Born on June 14, 1929, in Rome, Italy, Tonino Cervi was a prominent film director, screenwriter, and producer. He was the son of renowned actor Gino Cervi. Cervi began his career as a film producer in 1952 with Sergio Corbucci's La Peccatrice dell'isola. He produced works by esteemed directors such as Michelangelo Antonioni, Federico Fellini, and Bernardo Bertolucci. Transitioning to directing, Cervi made his debut with the spaghetti Western Today We Kill, Tomorrow We Die! (1968), starring Bud …

Filmography

6.9

Boccaccio '70

An anthology of four comic moral tales about the hypocrisies surrounding sex in 1960s Italy: frothy young love and office politics in the big city; milk advertisements that begin to haunt an aging prude; a trophy wife enduring her husband's very public affairs; a lucky ticket-holder at a small town fair.

6.4

The Spider Labyrinth

A young professor travels to Budapest to locate a lost colleague. Once there, he gets tangled up in a supernatural mystery.

7.3

Red Desert

In an industrializing Italian town, a married woman, rendered mentally unstable after a traffic accident, drifts into an affair with a friend of her husband.

6.0

Today We Kill, Tomorrow We Die!

A man, released after a jail term for a crime he did not commit, raises a gang to go after the man who framed him.

5.3

Story of a Cloistered Nun

Refusing an arranged marriage, young aristocrat Carmela is sent to a convent. Her arrival intensifies the power struggle between the debauched nun Elizabeth and the stern Mother Superior, as both are smitten by Carmela's beauty.

5.4

The Nun and the Devil

It's 1577. The Mother Superior at the convent of Archangel is seriously ill. The determined and calculating Mother Giulia plots to become the next Mother Superior. She receives tough competition from tormented lesbian Sister Chiara and the lusty Sister Carmela.

6.6

Torso

A masked serial killer with psychosexual issues strangles female coeds with scarves before dismembering them. When a wealthy student identifies one of the scarves and thinks she has a lead on a suspect, she becomes the killer's next target, retreating to her family's remote cliffside villa with three of her girlfriends.

6.3

The Miser

Misery money-lender Arpagone is looking to arrange three weddings simultaneously - to cut down on costs. One for himself and the others for his two children. Of course he doesn't approve of the choices his son and daughter have made and conspires to arrange more well to do spouses against their will. However, fate will prove itself to be on the side of true love, not of the greedy.

7.5

Mafioso

When a good-natured factory supervisor living in Milan with his Northern wife returns to his native Sicily, a decades' old oath forces him to fulfill a nightmarish obligation.

5.1

Sweet and Sour

Gerard, a young man from a "good family" dreams of becoming an actor. To do this, he follows everywhere his sister Frédérique who is infatuated with cinéma vérité.

6.6

La Commare Secca

Roman police detectives interrogate a series of potential perpetrators in their struggle to determine whom to arrest for the brutal murder of a beautiful prostitute whose body is discovered in a park on the day of a torrential rainstorm. One by one, the prime suspects -- girl-crazy teenager Nino, pickpocket Canticchia, a soldier on leave, a tourist and a pimp -- recount the events of the day to the police, each insisting he is innocent.

6.0

The Big Night

The exploits of three young Roman criminals are chronicled in this socially conscious drama. The young men commit petty crimes all day, beginning with arms theft, leading to an encounter with three streetwalkers. After their pleasure, the boys try to cheat the hookers, but the ladies are smarter than that and have stolen their cash ahead of time. It's back to the city for the boys, where they continue their destructive games...

7.1

Long Night in '43

1943. The affair between Anna, unhappily married to wheelchair-bound Pino, and deserter Franco unfolds in foggy Ferrara, intertwining with the power struggle taking place within local Fascist ranks that culminates in a massacre of civilians, including Franco's father – Pino sees it all from his window, but will he tell anyone?

6.9

Maigret at the Pigalle

Maigret is about to leave for the holidays but a colleague asks him for help in investigating the mysterious murder of a stripper and a noblewoman, both of which took place in Pigalle.

7.1

The Moment of Truth

Miguel, a poor young man living in Franco's Spain becomes a bull fighter to escape starvation.

9.0

La peccatrice dell'isola

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4.7

Excuse Me, Do You Like Sex?

Using interviews and filmed reconstructions, the director analyzes eroticism from the period of breastfeeding, in which the newborn feels pleasure from contact with the mother's breast until reaching adulthood.

7.3

I 4 tassisti

Four comedic episodes follows different taxi drivers.

6.7

The Window to Luna Park

Back home after his wife's death, a migrant labourer faces a dilemma between a high-paying job overseas and one last chance at reconnecting with his son, who sees him only as a stranger because of all his years abroad.

7.1

The Best Part

Philippe Perrin, a young engineer passionate about his work, leads the construction of a huge dam in the High Alps. Like all the men who work on the building site, he gives the best part of himself. Unfortunately, his health deteriorates but he refuses to follow the doctor's orders as well as the advice of Micheline, a young nurse who has fallen in love with him. However, driven by the evolution of his illness, Philippe finally makes up his mind to go down to the valley for a treatment. On the very day of his departure though, a young Arab worker gets killed in a rock crusher...