Legendary Italian screenwriter was born Antonio Guerra on the 16th of
March 1920 in Sant'Arcangelo, Italy, south of Ravenna. He wrote several
short stories, poetry and novels and in 1956 his first screenplay "Man
and Wolves" (co-written by Elio Petri) was directed by Giuseppe De
Santis. Three years later he wrote the masterpiece, "L'Avventura",
which began his long collaboration with one of the greatest directors
of all time
Michelangelo Antonioni. Tonino Guerra earned Oscar nominations 3 times:
for the
Casanova 70 (1965), for
Blow-Up (1966) by Antonioni and for
Amarcord (1973) directed by
Federico Fellini. He has worked with many other masters such as
Francesco Rosi on
_Lucky Luciano (1974)_ and and
Andrei Tarkovsky on
Nostalgia (1983). Tonino Guerra is a poet and one of
busiest and the most important screenwriters of cinema who won Cannes
Film Festival's Best Screenplay award for the "Voyage to Cythera" by
Theo Angelopoulos and received an honorary award of the Venice Film
Festival. Tonino Guerra is a great fan of two persecuted film geniuses
Andrei Tarkovsky and
Sergei Parajanov.
Voyage in Time(1983)
Contemporary Fairy Tales(2008)
The Little Moon(2020)
Welcome to the Basement(2012)
The House by the Medlar Tree(2010)
Le chien, le général et les oiseaux(2003)as Il generale
The Lion with the White Beard(1995)as Peretti
Naissance d'un Golem(1991)
Un ettaro di cielo(1958)
Men and Wolves(1957)
Fellini's Casanova(1976)
Documenti su Giuseppe Pinelli(1970)
Between Strangers(2002)
To Make a Film Is to Be Alive(1995)
Un giorno perfetto(2008)
Tarkovsky: Time Within Time(2015)as Self
Architecture in Israel(2013)as Self
Giuseppe Tornatore: Every Film My First Film(2012)as Self
Armenia(2012)as Self
Notarangelo ladro di anime(2019)as Self
Poltrone rosse - Parma e il cinema(2014)as Self
The Oscars(2013)as Self - Writer (In Memoriam)
DĂas de cine(1991)as Self