Nino Manfredi, born in Castro dei Volsci in 1921, was one of the four great masks of the commedia all'italiana alongside Sordi, Gassman and Tognazzi. He gave the golden age of Italian satire some of its most human faces in Nell'anno del Signore (1969), Pane e cioccolata (1974), C'eravamo tanto amati (1974) and Brutti, sporchi e cattivi (1976). He also directed and starred in the tender Between Miracles (Per grazia ricevuta, 1971), which won him the Palme d'Or for Best First Work at Cannes. Under his light comic touch pulsed a firmly working-class conscience that shaped his enduring image with Italian audiences. Read more