Tonino Guerra
Writer

Tonino Guerra Net Worth

Tonino Guerra was a legendary Italian screenwriter born in Sant'Arcangelo, Italy in 1920. He wrote several short stories, poetry and novels, and his first screenplay "Man and Wolves" was directed by Giuseppe De Santis in 1956. He is best known for his collaboration with Michelangelo Antonioni, which began with the masterpiece "L'Avventura" in 1959. He earned Oscar nominations for Casanova '70 (1965), Blowup (1966) and Amarcord (1973), and worked with other great directors such as Francesco Rosi and Andrei Tarkovsky. He won the Cannes Film Festival's Best Screenplay award for "Voyage to Cythera" by Theo Angelopoulos and received an honorary award from the Venice Film Festival. He was a great admirer of Andrei Tarkovsky and Sergei Parajanov.
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Age, Biography and Wiki

Who is it? Writer, Actor, Assistant Director
Birth Day March 16, 1920
Birth Place  Santarcangelo di Romagna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy, Italy
Age 100 YEARS OLD
Died On 21 March 2012(2012-03-21) (aged 92)\nSantarcangelo di Romagna, Italy
Birth Sign Aries
Occupation Writer, Poet, Screenwriter

💰 Net worth

Tonino Guerra, a prominent figure in the Italian film industry, is revered for his contributions as a writer, actor, and assistant director. With a dynamic career spanning several decades, Guerra has left an indelible mark on the world of cinema. As of 2024, his net worth is estimated to range between $100,000 to $1 million. Having worked with legendary filmmakers like Federico Fellini and Michelangelo Antonioni, Guerra's immense talent and creativity have brought him both critical acclaim and financial success. His vast body of work continues to captivate audiences and make him an irreplaceable asset to the Italian film industry.

Famous Quotes:

To pass the time he told his companions stories: when he came home in 1945 he found a publisher for a book of them, I Scarabocc (Cockroaches, but also "scribblings").

Biography/Timeline

1970

At 30 he moved to Rome and worked as a schoolteacher. During this time he met Elio Petri, the Future Director of Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970), who worked as assistant to Giuseppe De Santis. Guerra was able to get his first screenwriting credit after he and Petri went to the Abruzzi mountains to find out about wolf-hunting; "Though they discovered that wolf Hunters no longer existed, De Santis went ahead anyway with the film, Uomini e Lupi (Men and Wolves, 1957)".

1990

In 1990 Guerra in collaboration with Giovanni Urbinati to create the exhibition “La Cattedrale dove va a dormire il mare/The Cathedral where the sea goes to sleep” at the deconsecrated church in Budrio near Bologna.

1995

In 1995 he was awarded with an Honorable Diploma at the 19th Moscow International Film Festival.

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