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Cesare Zavattini (20 September 1902 – 13 October 1989) was an Italian screenwriter and one of the first theorists and proponents of the Neorealist movement in Italian cinema. Biography. Born in Luzzara near Reggio Emilia in northern Italy, on 20 September 1902, Zavattini studied law at the University of Parma, but devoted himself to writing.
Cesare Zavattini (born September 29, 1902, Luzzara [Reggio Emilia], Italy—died October 13, 1989, Rome) was an Italian screenwriter, poet, painter, and novelist, known as a leading exponent of Italian Neorealism.
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Cesare Zavattini è stato uno sceneggiatore, giornalista, commediografo, scrittore, poeta e pittore italiano. In ambito cinematografico, Zavattini è annoverato tra le figure più rilevanti del neorealismo italiano, di cui fu anche un teorico.
The name Cesare Zavattini, or Za for short, would be better approached as a field of creative energy fueling and often short-circuiting the Italian cultural scene and its cinema during the last century with reverberations across global cinema.
Oct 14, 1989 · Scenarist Cesare Zavattini, a seminal part of the Italian postwar film scene who with director Vittorio De Sica gave the world such motion picture triumphs as “The Bicycle Thief,” “Shoeshine,”...
Cesare Zavattini was born on 20 September 1902 in Luzzara, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. He was a writer and director, known for Bicycle Thieves (1948), Umberto D. (1952) and It's Forever Springtime (1950). He was married to Olga Berni. He died on 13 October 1989 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
This intellectual biography is built on the premise that in order to understand Zavattini's idea of cinema and his legacy of ethical and political cinema (including guerrilla cinema), we must also tease out the multi-faceted strands of his interventions and their interplay over time.
