Tonino Guerra

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 Blowup (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 Andrey Tarkovskiy on Nostalghia (1983). Tonino Guerra is a poet and one of busiest and the most important screenwriters of cinema who won Cannes Film Festvial’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 Andrey Tarkovskiy and Sergei Parajanov. —IMDb