Tonino Guerra(1920-2012)
- Writer
- Actor
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
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 Nostalghia (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.
