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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 .
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.
Figlio di Pietro Solinas, colonnello dell'Esercito di nobile famiglia sarda, e di Maria Maddalena Casazza, figlia di Ermenegildo, un commerciante genovese installatosi sull'Isola di La Maddalena nel 1880, Franco Solinas passa i suoi primi anni al seguito dei genitori con la sorella Licia nelle città dove il padre prestava servizio (Cagliari, Belluno, Roma, Taranto).
Franco Solinas. Writer: The Battle of Algiers. 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. He worked with several acclaimed directors, including Joseph Losey, Costa-Gavras, Gillo Pontecorvo, and Francesco Rosi.
Jun 1, 2012 · 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 of Rosi’s Salvatore Giuliano, Pontecorvo’s The Battle of Algiers, and Costa Gavras’s State of Siege (to name a few). Solinas worked on four Spaghetti Westerns—all included in a three-week-long series at New York’s Film Forum that begins June 1—contributing to this wildly commercial and equally ...
1954. Di qua, di là del Piave …. Screenplay. 1951. Behind Closed Shutters …. Screenplay …. Story. 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.
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.
