title: Ruggero Maccari
text: # Ruggero Maccari
  
  Ruggero Maccari (28 June 1919 – 8 May 1989) was an Italian screenwriter.
  
  Specially known by his collaboration with film director and screenwriter Ettore Scola. He wrote Commedia all'italiana films such as The Easy Life, Brutti sporchi e cattivi, or Adua e le compagne.
  
  ## Awards
  
  He was nominated to the Academy Award for Dino Risi's Profumo di donna.
  
  He won a David di Donatello for Ettore Scola's La famiglia; and he was a 4 time Nastro d'Argento winner for La famiglia, Scola's Passione d'amore and A Special Day, and Antonio Pietrangeli's Io la conoscevo bene.
  
  ## Selected filmography
  
  * Eleven Men and a Ball (1948)
  * The Transporter (1950)
  * Rome-Paris-Rome (1951)
  * The Steamship Owner (1951)
  * The Passaguai Family (1951)
  * I, Hamlet (1952)
  * The Dream of Zorro (1952)
  * Sardinian Vendetta (1952)
  * The Passaguai Family Gets Rich (1952)
  * The Piano Tuner Has Arrived (1952)
  * Beauties in Capri (1952)
  * The Doctor of the Mad (1954)
  * Toto Seeks Peace (1954)
  * It Happened at the Police Station (1954)
  * Tripoli, Beautiful Land of Love (1954)
  * The Two Friends (1955)
  * Red and Black (1955)
  * Count Max (1957)
  