Tonino Guerra  

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Tonino Guerra (16 March 1920 – 21 March 2012) was an Italian poet, writer and screenwriter who has collaborated with some of the most prominent film directors of the world.

Biography

Guerra was born in Santarcangelo di Romagna.

Descendant of Cesare Zavattini, the screenwriter who essentially defined the style and morals of Italian neorealism, Guerra deviates from his great mentor: while Zavattini brought the directors with whom he collaborated over to his own social and moral speculation, Guerra goes to the filmmakers and helps them advance their own concept.

Tonino Guerra has worked with filmmakers who have different aesthetic, social, political and cinematic identities. These include 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 The Weeping Meadow, Andrei Tarkovsky with Nostalghia and Francesco Rosi with the militant politics of The Mattei Affair, Lucky Luciano and Exquisite Corpses.

Selected filmography

• Piece of the Sky (1959)
• L'avventura (1960)
• La notte (1961)
• The Assassin (1961)
• L'eclisse (1962)
• The Red Desert (1964)
• Blowup (1967)
• Catch As Catch Can (1967)
• Ghosts - Italian Style (1968)
• In Search of Gregory (1969)
• A Quiet Place in the Country (1969)
• The Voyeur (1970)
• Zabriskie Point (1970)
• The Mattei Affair (1972)
• Lucky Luciano (1973)
• Amarcord (1973)
• Illustrious Corpses (1976)
• Caro Michele (1976)
• The Night of the Shooting Stars (1981)
• Identification of a Woman (1982)
• Voyage in Time (1983)
• Nostalghia (1983)
• And the Ship Sails On (1983)
• Henry IV (1984)
• Voyage to Cythera (1984)
• Ginger and Fred (1985)
• The Beekeeper (1986)
• Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1987)
• Landscape in the Mist (1988)
• Burro (1989)
• Dimenticare Palermo (1989)
• The Sun Also Shines at Night (1990)
• The Suspended Step of the Stork (1991)
• Eternity and a Day (1998)
• Ulysses' Gaze (1995)
• Tierra del fuego (2000)