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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.
Cesare Zavattini was an Italian screenwriter, poet, painter, and novelist, known as a leading exponent of Italian Neorealism. Born into a humble family, Zavattini completed a law degree at the University of Parma and began a career in journalism and publishing.
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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.
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.
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- Luzzara, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
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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,”...
The following documentary on screenwriter, publisher, novelist, and film theorist Cesare Zavattini was made in 2019 and is part of an ongoing Italian television series profiling important historical figures. Each episode in the series, “Italiani con Paolo Mieli,” is introduced by Mieli, a journal...
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Oct 20, 2020 · Cesare Zavattini crossed the entire history of Italian sound cinema, from the 1930s until his death in 1989.
