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Franco Solinas (19 January 1927 – 14 September 1982) was an Italian writer and screenwriter. He is best known for the screenplays of The Battle of Algiers, which was nominated for three Academy Awards, and State of Siege. He also wrote the 1969 historical drama ¡Queimada!, starring Marlon Brando. Both films were directed by Gillo Pontecorvo.
Franco Solinas was an Italian writer and screenwriter active from the 1950s to the early 1980s, who specialized in political and historical films. He is best known for the screenplay of The Battle of Algiers (1966), which was nominated for three Academy Awards.
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- Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy
- January 1, 1
- Fiumicino, Lazio, Italy
Franco Solinas ( Cagliari, 19 gennaio 1927 – Fregene, 14 settembre 1982 [1]) è stato uno sceneggiatore e scrittore italiano .
Franco Solinas was an Italian writer and screenwriter active from the 1950s to the early 1980s, who specialized in political and historical films. He is best known for the screenplay of The Battle of Algiers (1966), which was nominated for three Academy Awards.
- January 19, 1927
- September 14, 1982
Mar 11, 2011 · He and scriptwriter Franco Solinas adapted and deepened Yacef’s story and persuaded him to play himself in the film. Their Battle of Algiers is both an elegy for the war’s victims on both sides and a celebration of Algeria’s liberation from colonial oppression.
- Suzanne Ruta
Franco Solinas was an Italian writer and screenwriter. He is best known for the screenplay of The Battle of Algiers, which was nominated for three Academy Awards.
Jun 1, 2012 · With the escalation of the Vietnam War, every Marxist intellectual, it seemed, wanted to write a Western. The most notable was Franco Solinas (1927–1982), a teenaged partisan and longtime member of the Italian Communist Party, journalist for the Communist newspaper *L’Unità*, and author.
