Tonino Guerra
Antonio "Tonino" Guerra (born March 16, 1920 in Santarcangelo di Romagna ; † March 21, 2012 ibid) was an Italian poet and screenwriter .
Life
Tonino Guerra wrote his early poems in the Romagna dialect while imprisoned as an Italian military internee in a forced labor camp in Troisdorf . He had a lifelong friendship with Federico Fellini , which resulted in the film Amarcord , and with Michelangelo Antonioni . Guerra lived until the end as an honorary citizen in Pennabilli . He is the father of the film music composer Andrea Guerra, born in 1961 (including music for Hotel Rwanda ).
In 1983 Tonino Guerra directed the first and only time, the film Tempo di viaggio was made .
Awards (selection)
Tonino Guerra received three Oscar nominations for the screenplays of Casanova '70 (1965), Blow Up (1966) and Amarcord (1973) . In 1984 he was awarded for Best Screenplay at the Cannes International Film Festival (for The Trip to Kythera ). In 2002 he received the European Film Award for Lifetime Achievement. He was able to win a David di Donatello three times in his career, and six times he received the Nastro d'Argento for Best Screenplay . In 2012 he became an honorary citizen of Ravenna .
Filmography (selection)
- 1960: Those who play with love (L'avventura)
- 1961: The Night (La notte)
- 1961: Do you trust Alfredo to murder? (L'assassino)
- 1962: Love 1962 (L'eclisse)
- 1964: The red desert (Il deserto rosso)
- 1964: Wedding in Italian (Matrimonio all'italiana)
- 1965: The tenth sacrifice (La decima vittima)
- 1965: Casanova '70
- 1966: Gideon and Samson (I grandi condottieri)
- 1966: Blow Up (Blow up)
- 1967: Beautiful Isabella (C'era una volta ...)
- 1968: The scent of your skin (Amanti)
- 1970: Zabriskie Point
- 1970: Battalion of the Lost (Uomini contro)
- 1970: Sunflowers (I girasoli)
- 1973: Amarcord (Amarcord)
- 1974: Lucky Luciano (Lucky Luciano)
- 1976: Power and its price (Cadaveri eccellenti)
- 1978: Murder in Barcelona (Un papillon sur l'épaule)
- 1979: Christ only came to Eboli (Cristo si è fermato a Eboli)
- 1983: Nostalghia (Ностальгия)
- 1983: Fellini's Ship of Dreams (E la nave va)
- 1984: The trip to Kythera (Taxidi sta Kythira)
- 1984: Kaos
- 1984: Carmen
- 1986: Ginger and Fred (Ginger e Fred)
- 1987: Chronicle of an Announced Death (Cronaca di una morte annunciata)
- 1988: Landscape in the Fog (topio stin omichli, paysage dans le brouillard)
- 1990: Everyone is fine (Stanno tutti bene)
- 1991: The Stork's Floating Step (To meteoro vima tou pelargou)
- 1995: Beyond the Clouds (Al di là delle nuvole)
- 1995: The Look of Odysseus (To Vlemma tou Odyssea)
- 1998: Eternity and a Day (Mia aioniotita kai mia mera)
- 2005: The Dance of the Wind (Bab 'Aziz)
documentary
- 1995: The Inner Journey - Tonino Guerra and his poetic places in the Marecchia Valley , book & director: Heinz Trenczak , WDR television June 11, 1995, 3sat September 29, 2005.
Web links
- Literature by and about Tonino Guerra in the catalog of the German National Library
- Tonino Guerra in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Italian screenplay legend: Fellini friend Tonino Guerra has died , Spiegel Online , March 21, 2012
Individual evidence
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Guerra, Tonino |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Guerra, Antonio |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian poet and screenwriter |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 16, 1920 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Santarcangelo di Romagna |
DATE OF DEATH | March 21, 2012 |
Place of death | Santarcangelo di Romagna |