Tullio Kezich

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Tullio Kezich (born September 17, 1928 in Trieste , † August 17, 2009 in Rome ) was an Italian film critic , screenwriter , writer and dramaturge .

Life

Kezich began his career in 1946 as a journalist at Radio Trieste , for which he reported, among other things, on the Venice Film Festival . Since the 1950s he wrote regularly for film magazines, including Sipario , of which he was director from 1971 to 1974, as well as for well-known papers such as Panorama , La Repubblica and the Corriere della Sera .

After he had already been production secretary for the film Cuori senza frontiere by Luigi Zampa in 1949 , he founded the company 22 dicembre with Ermanno Olmi in 1961 , for which he worked as artistic director until 1965 on films by Olmi himself, as well as by Roberto Rossellini and Lina , among others Wertmüller collaborated. In Olmis Il Posto (1961) he had a role as an actor. From 1964 Kezich also worked as a dramaturge. From 1969 to 1984 he worked as a producer for RAI .

In 1984 he was a member of the international jury at the Berlin Film Festival . Kezich wrote scripts (as for Olmis The Legend of the Holy Drinker based on the novel of the same name by Joseph Roth , who won the Golden Lion in Venice in 1988 ), plays and several books, including a Fellini biography.

Bibliography (selection)

  • Il western maggiorenne , Zigiotti Editore, Trieste 1953
  • L'uomo di sfiducia , Bompiani, Milano 1962
  • Il dolce cinema , Bompiani, Milano 1978
  • Su la Dolce Vita con Federico Fellini , Marsilio, Venezia 1996
  • Il campeggio di Duttogliano e altri ricordi , Sellerio, Palermo 2001, ISBN 8838917256 .
  • Federico - Fellini, la vita ei film , Feltrinelli, Milano 2002, ISBN 880749020X (German Federico Fellini - Eine Biographie , Diogenes Verlag, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3257064977 ).

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personal data
SURNAME Kezich, Tullio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian film critic and author
DATE OF BIRTH September 17, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Trieste
DATE OF DEATH 17th August 2009
Place of death Rome