{{Short description|Italian screenwriter (1921–2000)}} {{Infobox person | name = Rodolfo Sonego | image = Rodolfo Sonego.png | imagesize = | birth_name = | birth_date = 27 February 1921 | birth_place = Cavarzano (Belluno), Veneto, Italy | death_date = 15 October 2000 (aged 79) | death_place = Rome, Italy | spouse = }} '''Rodolfo Sonego''' (27 February 1921 – 15 October 2000) was an Italian screenwriter.
He wrote Commedia all'italiana films such as ''A Difficult Life'', ''Il vedovo'', and ''The Traffic Policeman''.
==Life and career== Born in Cavarzano, Belluno, Sonego graduated at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Turin and started an activity as painter and illustrator.<ref name=bio>{{cite book|last1=Tatti Sanguineti|title=Il cervello di Alberto Sordi: Rodolfo Sonego e il suo cinema|publisher=Adelphi, 2015|isbn=978-8845976360|date=2015-04-02}}</ref> During the war he was a partisan, becoming leader of the Fratelli Bandiera Brigade.<ref name="bio"/>
After the war Sonego, known for his great communication skills and for his ability in recounting his war experiences, entered the cinema industry as a consulent for several films dedicated to partisan movements during the war.<ref name="bio"/> Moved to Rome, he initially collaborated to the screenplays of a number of dramas, working with directors such as Giuseppe De Santis, Alberto Lattuada and Carlo Lizzani.<ref name="bio"/> In 1954 he met Alberto Sordi for the screenplay of the comedy film ''Il seduttore'' and from then he started a long collaboration with the actor, writing, sometimes uncredited, over 50 films starred by Sordi.<ref name="bio"/>
==Selected filmography== {{div col}} * ''Anna'' (1951) * ''Shadows on the Grand Canal'' (1951) * ''Rome 11:00'' (1952) * ''It Happened in the Park'' (1953) * ''Camilla'' (1954) * ''The Beach'' (1954) * ''A Hero of Our Times'' (1955) * ''Toto and Carolina'' (1955) * ''Count Max'' (1957) * ''Il marito'' (1957) * ''The Widower'' (1959) * ''The Moralist'' (1959) * ''Crimen'' (1960) * ''The Traffic Policeman'' (1960) * ''A Difficult Life'' (1961) * ''The Italian Brigands'' (1962) * ''To Bed or Not to Bed'' (1963) * ''The Commandant'' (1963) * ''Il disco volante'' (1964) * ''I complessi'' (1965) * ''Thrilling'' (1965) * ''The Girl with the Pistol'' (1968) * ''Help Me, My Love'' (1969) * ''Satyricon'' (1969) * ''A Girl in Australia'' (1971) * ''The Scientific Cardplayer'' (1972) * ''A Brief Vacation'' (1973) * ''Two Missionaries'' (1974) * ''Di che segno sei?'' (1975) * ''Strange Occasion'' (1976) * ''A Common Sense of Modesty'' (1976) * ''Wifemistress'' (1977) * ''The Cat'' (1977) * ''The Witness'' (1978) * ''Where Are You Going on Holiday?'' (1978) * ''Catherine and I'' (1980) * ''Journey with Papa'' (1982) * ''Everybody in Jail'' (1984) * ''Troppo forte'' (1986) * ''A Taxi Driver in New York'' (1987) * ''The Miser'' (1990) * ''Acquitted for Having Committed the Deed'' (1992) * ''Household Accounts'' (2003) {{div col end}}
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== External links == *{{IMDb name|id=0814242|name=Rodolfo Sonego}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Sonego, Rodolfo}} Category:20th-century Italian screenwriters Category:Italian male screenwriters Category:1921 births Category:2000 deaths Category:20th-century Italian male writers