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Arturo Zavattini. 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 è stato uno sceneggiatore, giornalista, commediografo, scrittore, poeta e pittore italiano. In ambito cinematografico, Zavattini è annoverato tra le figure più rilevanti del neorealismo italiano, di cui fu anche un teorico.
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.
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.
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.
Oct 16, 1989 · Cesare Zavattini, an Italian screenwriter who collaborated on two Academy Award-winning films with the director Vittorio De Sica, died on Friday at the age of 87.
Despite the strong bond to the Emilian roots, the cultural experience of Cesare Zavattini is characterized by a remarkable international openness. Sure enough the Luzzarese writer has established himself as an authentic “global icon” of the cinematographic neorealism, characterizing his entire work for a marked transnational character.
