Tonino Guerra

Screenwriter

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Also Known As

Antonio Guerra

Birth Place

Italy

Born

March 16, 1920

Died

March 21, 2012

Biography

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An Italian poet, writer, and prolific screenwriter, Tonino Guerra has worked with some of the world's most celebrated directors. A descendant of the neo-realist style, Guerra was influenced by the great Cesare Zavattini, the writer of classics "The Bicycle Thief" and "Umberto." His first coup was his collaboration with director Michelangelo Antonioni on the inscrutable 1960 classic "L'av...

Filmography

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The Grey-Bearded Lion (1996)

Tempo Di Viaggio (1995)

The Lion With the White Beard (1995)

Journey to Tulum (2011)

Bab'Aziz: The Prince Who Contemplated His Soul (2006)

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L'Eclisse (The Eclipse) (1962) -- (Movie Clip) I've Already Decided

L'Eclisse (The Eclipse) (1962) -- (Movie Clip) I Made A Million

Biography

An Italian poet, writer, and prolific screenwriter, Tonino Guerra has worked with some of the world's most celebrated directors. A descendant of the neo-realist style, Guerra was influenced by the great Cesare Zavattini, the writer of classics "The Bicycle Thief" and "Umberto." His first coup was his collaboration with director Michelangelo Antonioni on the inscrutable 1960 classic "L'avventura," and they teamed up again for the drama "La Notte." He was one of several writers on the crime caper film "The Assassin," and he found another critical success with "Red Desert," his fourth collaboration with Antonioni, in addition to their 1966 thriller "Blow-Up." His screenplay for the Marcello Mastroianni comedy "Casanova 70" earned him one of three Oscar nominations and established him in the top tier of his profession. After Antonioni's somewhat baffling "Zabriskie Point," he worked with the great Federico Fellini to produce the 1973 classic "Amarcord," for which he also received an Oscar nomination. Guerra also worked with Russian Andrei Tarkovsky on the drama "Nostalghia" and co-wrote "Landscape in the Mist," a lyrical 1988 effort by Theo Angelopoulos. He also worked with the Greek director on the 1998 film "Eternity and a Day," a heartwarming drama that won the Golden Palm Award at Cannes. In 2008, a documentary about his cinematic career, "Tonino Guerra: a Poet in the Movies," was released, and he died four years after this celebration of his work.

Filmography

Director (Feature Film)

The Grey-Bearded Lion (1996)

Tempo Di Viaggio (1995)

Cast (Feature Film)

The Lion With the White Beard (1995)

Writer (Feature Film)

Journey to Tulum (2011)

Bab'Aziz: The Prince Who Contemplated His Soul (2006)

Screenplay ("The Dangerous Thread Of Things")

The Dog, the General and the Birds (2003)

The Dog, the General and the Birds (2003)

Source Material (From Book: "The General And Bonaparte")

Tierra del Fuego (2000)

Eternity and A Day (1998)

Script Collaborator

The Truce (1997)

Bely Prazdnik (1996)

Beyond the Clouds (1995)

Ulysses' Gaze (1995)

The Lion With the White Beard (1995)

Tempo Di Viaggio (1995)

Andy Warhol's Frankenstein (1992)

The Suspended Step of the Stork (1991)

Especially on Sunday (1991)

The Palermo Connection (1991)

Night Sun (1990)

Everybody's Fine (1990)

Il Male Oscuro (1990)

Viaggio d'amore (1990)

Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1988)

Writer (Adaptation)

La Femme de mes amours (1988)

Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1988)

La Femme de mes amours (1988)

Landscape in the Mist (1988)

Good Morning Babylon (1987)

Ginger and Fred (1986)

Ginger and Fred (1986)

O Melissokomos (1986)

Enrico IV (1985)

And The Ship Sails On (1984)

And The Ship Sails On (1984)

Taxidi stin Kythera (1984)

Taxidi stin Kythera (1984)

Bizet's Carmen (1984)

Nostalghia (1983)

Identification of a Woman (1982)

The Night of San Lorenzo (1981)

The Mystery of Oberwald (1981)

I Tre fratelli (1980)

Un Papillon sur l'Epaule (1978)

Cristo si e Fermato a Eboli (1978)

Cristo si e Fermato a Eboli (1978)

Writer (Adaptation)

Tigers in Lipstick (1978)

Letti Selvaggi (1978)

Caro Michele (1976)

The Context (1976)

40 gradi soto il lenzuolo (1975)

Amarcord (1974)

Dites-Le avec des fleurs (1974)

Amarcord (1974)

Lucky Luciano (1973)

The Mattei Affair (1972)

La Supertestimone (1971)

Bianco, Rosso e... (1971)

Bianco, Rosso e... (1971)

Gli Ordini Sono Ordini (1971)

In Search of Gregory (1970)

A Quiet Place in the Country (1970)

Sunflower (1970)

Zabriskie Point (1970)

A Place for Lovers (1969)

Catch As Catch Can (1968)

The Queens (1968)

Screenplay for "Queen Armenia"

The Wild Eye (1968)

Saul and David (1968)

More Than a Miracle (1967)

More Than a Miracle (1967)

The Secret Seven (1966)

Red Desert (1965)

Story & Screenplay

Casanova '70 (1965)

The 10th Victim (1965)

The Lady Killer of Rome (1965)

The Empty Canvas (1964)

Marriage Italian Style (1964)

La notte (1962)

Story-Screenplay

Story & Screenplay

L'avventura (1961)

The Road a Year Long (1958)

Misc. Crew (Feature Film)

Bely Prazdnik (1996)

Source Material (From Novel)

Viaggio d'amore (1990)

And The Ship Sails On (1984)

Il Casanova di Federico Fellini (1977)

Life Events

1956

First feature credit, from his story, "Uomini e Lupi"

1957

Screenwriting debut, "Un Ettaro di cielo"

1958

First collaboration with Michelangelo Antonioni, "L'Avventure"

1968

Acting debut, played a student in Bernardo Bertolucci's "Partner"

1970

First U.S. production, co-wrote with director Michelangelo Antonioni, Fred Gardner, Sam Shepard and Clare Peploe, "Zabriskie Point"

Videos

L'Eclisse (The Eclipse) (1962) -- (Movie Clip) I've Already Decided Most of Michelangelo Antonioni's disorienting opening scene, Monica Vitti as Vittoria, Francisco Rabal as boyfriend Riccardo, inside an apartment in Rome's modernistic EUR district, from the third film in the trilogy begun with L'Avventura and La Notte, L'Eclisse, 1962.

L'Eclisse (The Eclipse) (1962) -- (Movie Clip) I Made A Million Advancing no particular story line, Vittoria (Monica Vitti) visits the Rome stock exchange, where she flags down her mother (Lilla Brignone) and incidentally meets her broker Piero (Alain Delon), in third film Michelangelo Antonioni's trilogy of the period, L'Eclisse, 1962.

L'Eclisse (The Eclipse) (1962) -- (Movie Clip) Don't The Hippopotami Bother You? Bored Roman apartment dwellers Vittoria (Monica Vitti), who's just left her boyfriend, and Anita (Rossana Rory) visit Marta (Mirella Ricciardi), just moved home Africa, her racist views put to improbable use by director Michelangelo Antonioni, in L'Eclisse, 1962.

L'Eclisse (The Eclipse) (1962) -- (Movie Clip) This Is What Mama's Afraid Of Having retreated to the apartment of her mother (Lilla Brignone) from the Rome stock exchange, this is the first full encounter between newly unattached Vittoria (Monica Vitti) and Piero (Alain Delon), her mother's broker, in Michelangelo Antonioni's L'Eclisse, 1962.

Red Desert (1965) -- (Movie Clip) You Work To Support Your Family Director Michelangelo Antonioni’s opening, after artful credits on the same location, in industrial Ravenna finds his wife Monica Vitti, as troubled Giuliana, whom we’ll learn is not poor or starving, with her son Valerio (Bartoleschi), in Red Desert, 1965, also starring Richard Harris.

Red Desert (1965) -- (Movie Clip) The Gears Still Don't Quite Mesh In the plant in Ravenna, we meet engineer Ugo (Carlo Chionetti), Richard Harris his guest Zeller, looking to hire workers, when Ugo's wife Giuliana (Monica Vitti), whom we've seen crossing the industrial landscape, appears, and whom they discuss later, in Michelangelo Antonioni's Red Desert, 1965.

Red Desert (1965) -- (Movie Clip) Maybe Light Blue's Better Businessman Zeller (Richard Harris) visiting Ravenna, for no stated reason stops by the site of the shop being set up by neurotic Giuliana (Monica Vitti), the wife of his business contact, director Michelangelo Antonioni and his art director Piero Poletto at work, in Red Desert, 1965.

Ginger And Fred (1986) -- (Movie Clip) Keep Rome Clean Opening in routine circumstances at a train station in Rome, Giulietta Masina in her last performance directed by her husband, arriving to a modest reception, as Federico Fellini’s authorship emerges, especially in pork-oriented advertising, in the well-received Ginger And Fred, 1986, also starring Marcello Mastroianni, Barbara Scoppa the reporter in the van.

Ginger And Fred (1986) -- (Movie Clip) I Don't See The Resemblance On the first evening in the modest Rome hotel, Amelia (Giulietta Masina, the director’s wife, stage name “Ginger,”) remains in good spirits, awaiting the corny TV special and her still-absent partner “Fred,” Martin Maria Blau the disinterested assistant director, in Federico Fellini’s Ginger And Fred, 1986.

La Notte (1961) -- (Movie Clip) That What You Did Was Vile? Giovanni (Marcello Mastroianni) confesses his sexual liaison just minutes earlier with a stranger, to his unimpressed wife Lidia (Jeanne Moreau), en route to a party marking publication of his new novel, in Michelangelo Antonioni's drama of alienation, La Notte, 1962.

La Notte (1961) -- (Movie Clip) It Would Be Pointless Joining director Michelangelo Antonioni's deliberate opening, we meet hospitalized Tomasso (Bernhard Wicki) , Giovanni and Lidia (Marcello Mastroainni, Jeanne Moreau) completing their progress through Milan, interrupted by a neighbor (Maria Pia Luzi), in La Notte, 1962.

La Notte (1961) -- (Movie Clip) Every Millionaire Wants His Own Intellectual Director Michelangelo Antonioni makes clear how desperately bored his principals, writer Giovanni (Marcello Mastroianni) and wife Lidia (Jeanne Moreau), are with their lives and each other, barely able to decide whether to attend an upper-crust Milan party, in La Notte, 1962.

Ginger And Fred - (Original Trailer) Federico Fellini sends up Italian television in this story of a reunion of celebrity lookalikes played by Marcello Mastroianni and Fellini's wife Giulietta Masina.

More Than a Miracle - (Original Trailer) Omar Sharif is the handsome prince in love with serving girl Sophia Loren in the fairy tale romance More Than A Miracle (1967), directed by Francesco Rosi.

Blow-Up - (Wide Release Trailer) A photographer discovers a murder in the background of a candid photo in Michelangelo Antonioni's portrait of "Swinging London" Blow-Up (1966) starring Vanessa Redgrave.

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