Tonino Guerra

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Tonino Guerra (born March 16, 1920) is an Italian screenwriter who has collaborated with some of the most prominent writers of the world. 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, Blow Up, 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.

[edit] Selected filmography

• 1960 L'Avventura
• 1961 La Notte
• 1962 L'Eclisse
• 1964 The Red Desert
• 1967 Blow Up
• 1970 Zabriskie Point
• 1972 The Mattei Affair
• 1973 Lucky Luciano, Amarcord
• 1976 Illustrious Corpses
• 1981 The Night of the Shooting Stars
• 1982 Identification of a Woman
• 1983 Voyage in Time, Nostalghia, And the Ship Sails On
• 1984 Voyage to Cythera
• 1985 Ginger and Fred
• 1986 The Beekeeper
• 1987 Chronicle of a Death Foretold
• 1988 Landscape in the Mist
• 1991 The Suspended Step of the Stork
• 1998 Eternity and a Day

[edit] External links

• Tonino Guerra at the Internet Movie Database