Franco Maresco

Ciprì & Maresco is the name used by the pair of Palermo-born Italian screenwriters and directors Daniele Ciprì (born 17 August 1962) and Franco Maresco (born 5 May 1958).

The couple started collaborating in 1986, and they became popular with "Cinico TV", a Rai 3 series of 49 black-and-white shorts in which they depicted in a grotesque, comical and visionary style the ordinary life of Palermo suburbs. After making their feature film debut in 1995 with The Uncle from Brooklyn, in 1998 their provocative film Totò che visse due volte caused a stir, being temporarily banned by Italian censorship for blasphemy. Following a third film (the mockumentary The Return of Cagliostro), a documentary about the comedy duo Franco Franchi and Ciccio Ingrassia (How We Got the Italian Cinema Into Trouble: Franco & Ciccio’s Real Story), and two TV-series for La 7, the couple split to pursue solo projects.

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