Enrico Lando

Lando's career doesn't follow the standard festival-circuit arc. No Cannes debut, no slow burn to recognition. Instead, he came up through television — directing *New Music TV* for ITV UK during an early London-based phase of his career (NEM Zagreb) — before the documentary work that would earn him his first major international recognition. *Chi Ga Vinto?* won the Prix International du Documentaire et du Reportage Méditerranéen in 2009, which is a real award with real weight in European documentary circles, even if it didn't translate into broader name recognition outside the industry (NEM Zagreb). The pivot to Italian theatrical comedy is where Lando's career found its commercial footing. *I soliti idioti: Il film* (2011) was an adaptation of a popular Italian TV comedy — the kind of project that can go badly wrong when the format doesn't survive the jump to the big screen, but didn't here. The sequel, *I 2 soliti idioti* (2012), followed quickly, and then *Amici come noi* in 2014, a film that continued his run of collaborations with established Italian comedy talent (IMDb). *Quel bravo ragazzo* arrived in 2016, and *Scappo a casa* in 2019 — the latter starring Checco Zalone, one of Italy's biggest comedy draws at the time. What the filmography shows, if you look at it as a whole, is a director who understood something specific about Italian popular comedy and kept executing it without overreaching. Five theatrical features in roughly eight years, all of them genre-consistent, most of them commercially viable. He's also a credited screenwriter on multiple projects (LinkedIn), which suggests the creative investment runs deeper than the directing credit alone. Not a household name internationally. But within Italian popular cinema of the 2010s — a real presence.