---
name: "Elda Ferri"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/elda-ferri"
fi1m_id: "elda-ferri"
imdb_id: "nm0274754"
tmdb_id: 9233
wikidata_id: "Q3050493"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "12 November 1937"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T22:21:06.048598+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Elda Ferri

## Identity

Elda Ferri

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/elda-ferri
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** elda-ferri
- **IMDb ID:** nm0274754
- **TMDB ID:** 9233
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3050493
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elda_Ferri, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3050493, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0274754/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/9233

Producer. Born 12 November 1937 in Bologna, Italy.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 12 November 1937, Bologna, Italy
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elda_Ferri, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3050493, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0274754/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/9233

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Life Is Beautiful*](https://film.one/film/life-is-beautiful.md) (65)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Elda Ferri is an Italian film producer. She was born on 12 November 1937 in Bologna and is the administrator of the production company Jean Vigo Italia S.r.l.

She has produced numerous films directed by Roberto Benigni and Roberto Faenza. Her credits include *Life Is Beautiful* (1997), *According to Pereira* (1995), *The Monster* (1994), *Pinocchio* (2002), *Come Into the Light* (2005), *The Tiger and the Snow* (2005), *Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You* (2012), *5 Is the Perfect Number* (2019) and *Sin* (2019).

With Gianluigi Braschi, she won the David di Donatello for Best Producer for *Life Is Beautiful*, for which they also received an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture. She was named European Producer of the Year in 2005.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, it.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Life Is Beautiful* (1997), Fi1m 65, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/life-is-beautiful.md)

## Complete filmography (33)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Bangkok 24/7 - Italian Eyes* (2026), Actor
- *How Kids Roll* (2024), Producer
- *Folle d'amore - Alda Merini* (2023), Producer
- *Hill of Vision* (2022), Producer
- *Sin* (2019), Co-Producer
- *5 Is the Perfect Number* (2019), Producer
- *La notte è piccola per noi* (2019), Producer
- *La verità sta in cielo* (2016), Producer
- *Last Summer* (2014), Producer
- *Anita B.* (2014), Producer
- *Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You* (2012), Producer
- *The Case of Unfaithful Klara* (2009), Producer
- *The Demons of St. Petersburg* (2008), Producer
- *I Vicerè* (2007), Producer
- *The Tiger and the Snow* (2005), Executive Producer
- *The Days of Abandonment* (2005), Producer
- *Come Into the Light* (2005), Producer
- *The Soul Keeper* (2003), Co-Writer, Producer
- *Pinocchio* (2002), Producer
- *Between Strangers* (2002), Producer
- *The Lost Lover* (1999), Producer
- *Life Is Beautiful* (1997), Producer — Fi1m 65, [page](https://film.one/film/life-is-beautiful.md)
- *Marianna Ucrìa* (1997), Delegated Producer
- *Scarpette bianche* (1997), Producer
- *Pereira Declares* (1995), Producer
- *The Monster* (1994), Executive Producer
- *Look to the Sky* (1993), Producer
- *The Bachelor* (1990), Executive Producer
- *Fair Game* (1988), Production Coordinator
- *I ragazzi di Torino sognano Tokyo e vanno a Berlino* (1985), Producer
- *Copkiller* (1983), Producer
- *La festa perduta* (1981), Producer
- *Forza Italia!* (1977), Line Producer

## Gallery

- ![Ottavio Rosati con Milena Canonero alla prima della Moda Proibita a Cinecittà. Al centro Elda Ferri. (2021)](https://film.one/media/person/87961/gallery-96350de8a1a3.jpg) Ottavio Rosati con Milena Canonero alla prima della Moda Proibita a Cinecittà. Al centro Elda Ferri. (2021) — Varu1971 Vanessa Rusci ARCHIVIO PLAYS, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/Canonero-ferri-LMP_Cinecitta.jpg/1280px-Canonero-ferri-LMP_Cinecitta.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Elda Ferri alla sala Fellini di Cinecittà per la prima de La Moda Proibita (2021)](https://film.one/media/person/87961/gallery-37629b0c0112.jpg) Elda Ferri alla sala Fellini di Cinecittà per la prima de La Moda Proibita (2021) — ARCHIVIO PLAYS, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/22/Eldaferri.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1999: Best Picture (nominated), for *Life Is Beautiful*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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