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Cesare Zavattini is a Director and Scriptwriter Italien born on 20 september 1902 at Luzzara (Italie)

Cesare Zavattini

Cesare Zavattini
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Nationality Italie
Birth 20 september 1902 at Luzzara (Italie)
Death 13 october 1989 (at 87 years) at Rome (Italie)

Cesare Zavattini est un scénariste et écrivain italien, né le 20 septembre 1902 à Luzzara, province de Reggio d'Émilie en Émilie-Romagne en Italie, et mort le 13 octobre 1989 à Rome. Il est l’une des figures majeures du néoréalisme italien.

Biography

Il est lauréat d'un prix international de la paix en 1954.

Il est le père de Arturo Zavattini, directeur de la photographie.

Best films

Bicycle Thieves (1948)
(Scriptwriter)
Fabiola (1949)
(Scriptwriter)
Shoeshine (1946)
(Scriptwriter)
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (1954)
(Scriptwriter)
Two Women (1960)
(Scriptwriter)

Usually with

Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Cesare Zavattini (77 films)

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Director

Love in the City, 1h45
Directed by Alberto Lattuada, Carlo Lizzani, Michelangelo Antonioni, Federico Fellini, Francesco Maselli, Dino Risi, Roberto Rossellini, Cesare Zavattini
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Anthology film, Romance
Actors Ugo Tognazzi, Luisella Boni, Mara Berni, Antonio Cifariello, Marco Ferreri, Raimondo Vianello
Rating64% 3.2473653.2473653.2473653.2473653.247365
Sous l’égide de Cesare Zavattini, précurseur et théoricien du néoréalisme, les différents auteurs de ce film à sketches tentent de reconstituer d’après les témoignages des protagonistes eux-mêmes différents aspects, drôles ou tragiques, de l’amour en ville.
Miracle in Milan, 1h40
Directed by Vittorio De Sica, Cesare Zavattini
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Fantasy
Themes Political films
Actors Francesco Golisano, Emma Gramatica, Paolo Stoppa, Guglielmo Barnabò, Alba Arnova, Brunella Bovo
Rating75% 3.79463.79463.79463.79463.7946
This fantasy tale tells of Totò who, found in a cabbage patch, is adopted by Lolotta, a wise and kind old woman. When Lolotta dies he moves to an orphanage. At eighteen Totò (Francesco Golisano) leaves the orphanage and ends up in a shantytown squatter colony on the outskirts of Milan.

Scriptwriter

A Man and His Dog, 1h49
Directed by Francis Huster
Origin France
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Action
Themes Films about animals, Films about dogs, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Jean-Paul Belmondo, Hafsia Herzi, Francis Huster, Max von Sydow, Jean Dujardin, José Garcia
Roles Original Story
Rating58% 2.9044952.9044952.9044952.9044952.904495
Charles is an old retiree who lives in a maid's room in the house of his lover, a rich widow. He is forced out onto the street with his dog after the widow breaks off the relationship, as she decides to marry again. With no home nor way to make money, they wander the streets of Paris.
A Brief Vacation, 1h52
Directed by Vittorio De Sica
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Florinda Bolkan, Renato Salvatori, Teresa Gimpera Flaquer, Christian De Sica, Monica Guerritore, Adriana Asti
Rating74% 3.731393.731393.731393.731393.73139
The film concerns a female factory worker from Calabria who falls ill on the job and is prescribed a stay at a mountain retreat. She goes despite her husband's wishes, leaving behind her thankless work shift and her frustrating in-laws, but also her three children. The film addresses issues such as the health care system, labor conditions, spousal satisfaction, and class struggle.
We'll Call Him Andrea, 1h40
Directed by Vittorio De Sica
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about education
Actors Nino Manfredi, Mariangela Melato, Isa Miranda, Maria-Pia Casilio, Antonino Faà di Bruno
Rating65% 3.2836153.2836153.2836153.2836153.283615
Paolo et Maria, deux enseignants qui ne parviennent pas à avoir d'enfant, essaient par tous les moyens d'adopter.
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, 1h34
Directed by Vittorio De Sica
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Films about religion, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Dominique Sanda, Lino Capolicchio, Fabio Testi, Romolo Valli, Helmut Berger, Alessandro D'Alatri
Rating72% 3.6425953.6425953.6425953.6425953.642595
In the late 1930s, in Ferrara, a group of young friends get together for afternoons of tennis and happy times. Some of them are Jewish and a rising tide of Fascism has imposed increasingly anti-Semitic restrictions in their lives. Barred from regular tennis clubs, they go to play at the grand, walled estate owned by the Finzi-Contini, a wealthy, intellectual and sophisticated Jewish family. The two young Finzi-Contini, Alberto and his sister Micol, have organized a tennis tournament. Oblivious to the threats around them, life still seems to be sunny at the large Finzi-Contini estate, keeping the rest of the world at bay.
Sunflower
Sunflower (1970)
, 1h47
Directed by Vittorio De Sica
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, War, Historical, Romance
Themes Political films
Actors Marcello Mastroianni, Sophia Loren, Lioudmila Savelieva, Germano Longo, Glauco Onorato, Gunārs Cilinskis
Rating73% 3.652133.652133.652133.652133.65213
"A woman born for love. A man born to love her. A timeless moment in a world gone mad."
Caprice Italian Style, 1h35
Directed by Mauro Bolognini, Mario Monicelli, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Franco Rossi, Steno
Genres Comedy
Actors Totò, Walter Chiari, Ugo D'Alessio, Ninetto Davoli, Laura Betti, Renzo Marignano
Rating63% 3.191113.191113.191113.191113.19111
Iago: "What do you feel inside? Focus. What do you feel? "
A Place for Lovers, 1h28
Directed by Vittorio De Sica
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about cancer, Films based on plays
Actors Faye Dunaway, Marcello Mastroianni, Caroline Mortimer
Rating55% 2.7513852.7513852.7513852.7513852.751385
The rich fashion designer Julia is tired of living because she knows she is suffering from a malignant cancer. When the woman leaves for her last holiday in Cortina d'Ampezzo, she meets the young and vital Valerio. The two fall in love instantly, but Julia does not reveal her secret to Valerio. When Valerio finds out that she is sick and dying, he decides to pretend to know nothing, continuing his love affair with Julia to the end.
The Seven Cervi Brothers, 1h45
Directed by Gianni Puccini
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Political films
Actors Gian Maria Volonté, Lisa Gastoni, Carla Gravina, Riccardo Cucciolla, Gabriella Pallotta, Serge Reggiani
Rating69% 3.457813.457813.457813.457813.45781
En 1943, en Émilie-Romagne pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, les sept frères Cervi Agostino, Aldo, Antenore, Ettore, Ferdinando, Gelindo et Ovidio, paysans de Campegine, dans la province de Reggio d'Émilie, catholiques et anti-fascistes, forment, avec leur père Alcide, la « Banda Cervi », menant des actions de guérilla contre les fascistes et les Allemands.
Woman Times Seven, 1h40
Directed by Vittorio De Sica
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Anthology film, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Children's films
Actors Shirley MacLaine, Peter Sellers, Michael Caine, Rossano Brazzi, Lex Barker, Anita Ekberg
Rating58% 2.9058252.9058252.9058252.9058252.905825
Les sept sketches se déroulent à Paris. « La Femme », héroïne du film, pleure dans six des sketches (sauf dans Linda) : de chagrin, de rage, de déception, de désespoir ou de mélancolie comme dans le sketch Jean où, dernières images du film, elle verse une larme pudiquement masquée par la pluie qui ruisselle sur la vitre.
The Witches, 1h50
Directed by Vittorio De Sica, Mauro Bolognini, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Luchino Visconti, Franco Rossi
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Silvana Mangano, Annie Girardot, Alberto Sordi, Massimo Girotti, Totò, Clint Eastwood
Rating60% 3.000353.000353.000353.000353.00035
The film has a strong mold satirical denounces the status of women in the sixties in Italy. Through five episodes, it is the manner in which it is considered to be the woman in modern society, that is, as a real witch.