Tonino Guerra
Antonio "Tonino" Guerra (16 March 1920 – 21 March 2012) was an Italian poet, writer and screenwriter who collaborated with some of the most prominent film directors, such as Andrei Tarkovsky, Michelangelo Antonioni, Theo Angelopoulos, and Federico Fellini.
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Tonino Guerra
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- Name
- Tonino Guerra
- Birth Name
- Antonio Guerra
- Born
- 16 March 1920
- Birthplace
- Santarcangelo di Romagna, Italy
- Died
- 21 March 2012
- Occupation
- Writer, poet, screenwriter
- Nationality
- Italy · Kingdom of Italy
- Education
- University of Urbino
- Honours
- Order of Honour · Order of the Badge of Honour · Order of Friendship · honorary doctorate of the Bordeaux Montaigne University · Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic · European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award
- Languages
- Emilian-Romagnol · Italian
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Antonio "Tonino" Guerra (16 March 1920 – 21 March 2012) was an Italian poet, writer and screenwriter who collaborated with some of the most prominent film directors, such as Andrei Tarkovsky, Michelangelo Antonioni, Theo Angelopoulos, and Federico Fellini.
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Biography
Biography
Tonino Guerra studied at University of Urbino. The recorded working language is Emilian-Romagnol and Italian. Employment is recorded with Top Courses for Scriptwriters and Film Directors. Work by Tonino Guerra is recorded in the collections of Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Distinctions recorded are Order of Honour, Order of the Badge of Honour, Order of Friendship and honorary doctorate of the Bordeaux Montaigne University.

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Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Tonino Guerra • Birth Name — Antonio Guerra • Born — 16 March 1920 • Birthplace — Santarcangelo di Romagna, Italy • Died — 21 March 2012 • Place of death — Santarcangelo di Romagna, Italy • Occupation — Writer, poet, screenwriter
Life and work
Life and work
Guerra was born in Santarcangelo di Romagna. According to his obituary in The Guardian, Guerra first started writing poetry when interned in a prison camp in Germany, after being rounded up at the age of 22 with other antifascists from Santarcangelo. The Guardian wrote: "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')." 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)". Although a follower of Cesare Zavattini, who essentially defined the style and morals of Italian neorealism, Guerra deviated from his mentor: while Zavattini brought the directors with whom he collaborated over to his own social and moral speculation, Guerra went to the filmmakers and helped them advance their own concept. He worked with such filmmakers as Michelangelo Antonioni, in L'Avventura, La Notte, L'Eclisse, Red Desert, Blowup, Zabriskie Point and Identification of a Woman; Federico Fellini, in Amarcord; Theo Angelopoulos, in Landscape in the Mist, Eternity and a Day and Trilogy: The Weeping Meadow; Andrei Tarkovsky, in Nostalghia and Voyage in Time; and Francesco Rosi, in The Mattei Affair, Lucky Luciano, Illustrious Corpses and Christ Stopped at Eboli. 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. In 1995, he was awarded with an Honorable Diploma at the 19th Moscow International Film Festival.
Actor
Actor
• Er Più – storia d'amore e di coltello (1971) • Naissance d'un Golem (1991) - (uncredited) • Le Chien, le Général et les Oiseaux (2003) - Il generale (voice)
Identity and origins
Identity and origins
He also worked under the name Tonino Guerra. The authorities additionally record the headings Tonino Gkouera and Antonio Guerra. His recorded languages were Emilian-Romagnol and Italian. His recorded confession was atheism.
Life and career
Dated record
Life and career
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1920
Tonino Guerra born at Santarcangelo di Romagna.
2012
Tonino Guerra died at Santarcangelo di Romagna.
Recognition and collections
Where the work is held
Recognition and collections
Tonino Guerra received Order of Honour, Order of the Badge of Honour, Order of Friendship, honorary doctorate of the Bordeaux Montaigne University, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic and European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award.
Documents and archives
Primary material
Documents and archives
scholarly publication
- ‘Forbidden Dance’: A film treatment by Tonino Guerra, Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies, 2023
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 2023
- IL PASSATO CHE PERSISTE: TEMPO E TEMPI VERBALI NE<i>I BU</i>DI TONINO GUERRA, Italian Studies, 1997
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 1997
- Tandem Creativity of Federico Fellini and Tonino Guerra: Amarcord, ARTISTIC CULTURE. TOPICAL ISSUES, 2024
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 2024
- TONINO GUERRA (1920–), Italian Environmental Literature, 2003
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 2003
- Weaving hope: Tonino Guerra, fables and utopian holism in Red Desert, Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies, 2023
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 2023
reference work
- Wikidata, structured authority record Q460095: Tonino Guerra
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- “Tonino Guerra”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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authority file
- Gemeinsame Normdatei 16121901-9, Seminario Popolare su Tonino Guerra e la Poesia Dialettale Romagnola (1973 : Santarcangelo di Romagna).
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scholarly publication
‘Forbidden Dance’: A film treatment by Tonino Guerra, Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies, 2023Crossref registry
Verifiedscholarly publication
IL PASSATO CHE PERSISTE: TEMPO E TEMPI VERBALI NE<i>I BU</i>DI TONINO GUERRA, Italian Studies, 1997Crossref registry
Verifiedscholarly publication
Tandem Creativity of Federico Fellini and Tonino Guerra: Amarcord, ARTISTIC CULTURE. TOPICAL ISSUES, 2024Crossref registry
Verifiedscholarly publication
TONINO GUERRA (1920–), Italian Environmental Literature, 2003Crossref registry
Verifiedscholarly publication
Weaving hope: Tonino Guerra, fables and utopian holism in Red Desert, Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies, 2023Crossref registry
Verifiedauthority file
Gemeinsame Normdatei 16121901-9, Seminario Popolare su Tonino Guerra e la Poesia Dialettale Romagnola (1973 : Santarcangelo di Romagna).Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
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Tonino Guerra is recorded as writer, poet, screenwriter, playwright and film director.
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