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Franco Brusati is a Director, Scriptwriter, Producer and Assistant Director Italien born on 4 august 1922 at Milan (Italie)

Franco Brusati

Franco Brusati
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Nationality Italie
Birth 4 august 1922 at Milan (Italie)
Death 28 february 1993 (at 70 years) at Rome (Italie)

Franco Brusati (Milan, 4 August 1922 – Rome, 28 February 1993) was an Italian screenwriter, and director.

Biography

He directed international awarded film hit Bread and Chocolate, one of the finest examples of Commedia all'italiana films in the 70's.

He was an Academy Award nominee as Best Foreign Film for his 1979 film To Forget Venice. It also won the David di Donatello for Best Film. In 1983, he was a member of the jury at the 33rd Berlin International Film Festival.

Best films

Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet
(1968)
(Scriptwriter) Ulysses
Ulysses
(1954)
(Ecrivain) Anna
Anna
(1951)
(Histoire)

Usually with

Mario Camerini
Mario Camerini
(6 films)
Ennio De Concini
Ennio De Concini
(9 films)
Nino Rota
Nino Rota
(7 films)
Lionello De Felice
Lionello De Felice
(5 films)
Flavio Mogherini
Flavio Mogherini
(7 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Franco Brusati (32 films)

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Director

To Forget Venice
To Forget Venice (1979)
, 1h50
Directed by Franco Brusati
Origin Italie
Genres Drama
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Mariangela Melato, Erland Josephson, Eleonora Giorgi, Nerina Montagnani, Hella Petri, Anne Caudry
Rating66% 3.327623.327623.327623.327623.32762
Un frère et une sœur, Nicola et Marta, se réunissent dans leur vieille maison de la campagne vénète. Nicola est accompagné par son amant Sandro et ils décident tous trois de passer un dimanche à Venise. Néanmoins, le matin de l'excursion, Marta est frappée par un infarctus et meurt. La tragédie pousse Nicola à s'isoler et à renoncer également au rapport amoureux avec Sandro.
Bread and Chocolate
Bread and Chocolate (1974)
, 1h51
Directed by Franco Brusati
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about immigration, La précarité
Actors Anna Karina, Nino Manfredi, Tano Cimarosa, Ugo D'Alessio, Gianfranco Barra, Giorgio Cerioni
Rating74% 3.736083.736083.736083.736083.73608
Like many southern Europeans of the period (1960s to early 1970s), Nino Garofalo (Nino Manfredi) is a migrant "guest worker" from Ciociaria, working as a waiter in Switzerland. He loses his work permit when he is caught urinating in public, so he begins to lead a clandestine life in Switzerland. At first he is supported by Elena, a Greek woman. Then he befriends an Italian industrialist, relocated to Switzerland because of financial problems. The industrialist takes him under his wing, only to commit suicide when he squanders his last savings. Nino is constrained to find shelter with a group of clandestine Neapolitans living in a chicken coop, together with the same chickens they tend to in order to survive. Captivated by the idyllic vision of a group of young blonde, Swiss youths, he decides to dye his hair and pass himself off as a local. In a bar, when rooting for the Italian national football team during its transmission, he is found out after celebrating a goal scored by Fabio Capello. He is arrested and deported. He embarks on a train and finds himself in a cabin filled with returning Italian guest workers. Amid the songs of "sun" and "sea", he is seen having second thoughts. He gets off at the first stop: better life as an illegal immigrant than a life of misery.
Disorder
Disorder (1962)
, 1h39
Directed by Franco Brusati, Romolo Guerrieri
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Actors Louis Jourdan, Susan Strasberg, Curd Jürgens, Alida Valli, Georges Wilson, Antonella Lualdi
Rating59% 2.957812.957812.957812.957812.95781
Mario, jeune barman milanais aux ambitions professionnelles contrariées, est plus ou moins impliqué dans une succession d'histoires se déroulant dans l'Italie des années 1960. À la recherche d'une solution pour subvenir aux besoins de sa mère malade et nécessiteuse, il est confronté à l'égoïsme et aux débordements des mœurs d'une société décadente.
Under the Sun of Rome
Under the Sun of Rome (1948)
, 1h44
Directed by Renato Castellani, Marino Girolami, Franco Brusati
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Francesco Golisano, Alberto Sordi, Luisa Rossi, Tano Cimarosa
Rating68% 3.4336653.4336653.4336653.4336653.433665
À Rome, la signature de l'Armistice de Cassibile, promet une fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale assez proche.

Scriptwriter

To Forget Venice
To Forget Venice (1979)
, 1h50
Directed by Franco Brusati
Origin Italie
Genres Drama
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Mariangela Melato, Erland Josephson, Eleonora Giorgi, Nerina Montagnani, Hella Petri, Anne Caudry
Roles Writer
Rating66% 3.327623.327623.327623.327623.32762
Un frère et une sœur, Nicola et Marta, se réunissent dans leur vieille maison de la campagne vénète. Nicola est accompagné par son amant Sandro et ils décident tous trois de passer un dimanche à Venise. Néanmoins, le matin de l'excursion, Marta est frappée par un infarctus et meurt. La tragédie pousse Nicola à s'isoler et à renoncer également au rapport amoureux avec Sandro.
Bread and Chocolate
Bread and Chocolate (1974)
, 1h51
Directed by Franco Brusati
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about immigration, La précarité
Actors Anna Karina, Nino Manfredi, Tano Cimarosa, Ugo D'Alessio, Gianfranco Barra, Giorgio Cerioni
Roles Histoire
Rating74% 3.736083.736083.736083.736083.73608
Like many southern Europeans of the period (1960s to early 1970s), Nino Garofalo (Nino Manfredi) is a migrant "guest worker" from Ciociaria, working as a waiter in Switzerland. He loses his work permit when he is caught urinating in public, so he begins to lead a clandestine life in Switzerland. At first he is supported by Elena, a Greek woman. Then he befriends an Italian industrialist, relocated to Switzerland because of financial problems. The industrialist takes him under his wing, only to commit suicide when he squanders his last savings. Nino is constrained to find shelter with a group of clandestine Neapolitans living in a chicken coop, together with the same chickens they tend to in order to survive. Captivated by the idyllic vision of a group of young blonde, Swiss youths, he decides to dye his hair and pass himself off as a local. In a bar, when rooting for the Italian national football team during its transmission, he is found out after celebrating a goal scored by Fabio Capello. He is arrested and deported. He embarks on a train and finds himself in a cabin filled with returning Italian guest workers. Amid the songs of "sun" and "sea", he is seen having second thoughts. He gets off at the first stop: better life as an illegal immigrant than a life of misery.
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970)
, 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.
Black Jesus
Black Jesus (1968)
, 1h29
Directed by Valerio Zurlini
Origin Italie
Genres Drama
Themes Films set in Africa
Actors Woody Strode, Franco Citti, Jean Servais, Pier Paolo Capponi, Bruno Corazzari
Rating65% 3.277263.277263.277263.277263.27726
En république du Congo, un leader rebelle est capturé et envoyé en prison. Aux côtés de deux autres prisonniers, il est torturé alors qu'un régime politique nouvellement arrivé au pouvoir s'apprête à décider de son sort.
Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet (1968)
, 2h18
Directed by Franco Zeffirelli
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Films about suicide, Théâtre, Erotic films, Romeo and Juliet, Films based on plays, Films based on works by William Shakespeare
Actors Leonard Whiting, Olivia Hussey, Milo O'Shea, John McEnery, Robert Stephens, Michael York
Rating75% 3.7978053.7978053.7978053.7978053.797805
In Verona, Italy, the longstanding feud between the Montague and the Capulet clans breaks out in a street brawl, broken up by the Prince of the city. The same night, two teenagers of the two families — Romeo (Montague) and Juliet (Capulet) — meet at a Capulet feast and become deeply infatuated. Later, Romeo stumbles into the secluded garden under Juliet's bedroom balcony and the two exchange impassioned pledges. They are soon secretly married by Romeo's confessor and father figure, Friar Laurence, with the assistance of Juliet's nursemaid. Unfortunately, another street duel breaks out between Juliet's first cousin Tybalt and Romeo's best friend Mercutio when Tybalt insults Romeo. Since Tybalt is Juliet's cousin and Romeo has just been married to Juliet, he sees Tybalt as family and refuses to fight him, leading Mercutio to be a loyal friend and fight for him. This leads to Mercutio's death. Romeo retaliates by fighting Tybalt and killing him, and is punished by the Prince with banishment instead of the death penalty. Romeo, however, sees his banishment as worse than death, as Verona is the only home he has known and does not want to be pulled away from Juliet. Friar Laurence eventually convinces Romeo that he is very lucky and should be thankful for what he has. Romeo and Juliet secretly spend their wedding night together and consummate their marriage.