Tonino Guerra
| Tonino Guerra | |
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Guerra in Pennabilli in 2011
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| Born |
Antonio Guerra 16 March 1920 Santarcangelo di Romagna, Italy |
| Died | 21 March 2012 (aged 92) Santarcangelo di Romagna, Italy |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Occupation | Writer, Poet, Screenwriter |
Antonio "Tonino" Guerra (16 March 1920 – 21 March 2012) was an Italian poet, writer and screenwriter who collaborated with some of the most prominent film directors of the world.
Guerra was born in Santarcangelo di Romagna.
According to his obituary in The Guardian, Guerra first started writing poetry when interned in a prison camp in Germany, after being rounded up at the age of 22 with other antifascists from Santarcangelo.
To pass the time he told his companions stories: when he came home in 1945 he found a publisher for a book of them, I Scarabocc (Cockroaches, but also "scribblings").
At 30 he moved to Rome and worked as a schoolteacher. During this time he met Elio Petri, the future director of Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970), who worked as assistant to Giuseppe De Santis. Guerra was able to get his first screenwriting credit after he and Petri went to the Abruzzi mountains to find out about wolf-hunting; "Though they discovered that wolf hunters no longer existed, De Santis went ahead anyway with the film, Uomini e Lupi (Men and Wolves, 1957)".
Although a descendant of Cesare Zavattini, who essentially defined the style and morals of Italian neorealism, Guerra deviated from his mentor: while Zavattini brought the directors with whom he collaborated over to his own social and moral speculation, Guerra went to the filmmakers and helped them advance their own concept. He worked with such filmmakers as Michelangelo Antonioni, with L'avventura, La notte, L'Eclisse, The Red Desert, Blowup, Zabriskie Point and Identification of a Woman, Federico Fellini with Amarcord, Theo Angelopoulos, with Landscapes in the Mist, Eternity and a Day and Trilogy: The Weeping Meadow, Andrei Tarkovsky with Nostalghia, and Francesco Rosi, with The Mattei Affair, Lucky Luciano and Exquisite Corpses.
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