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Cesare Zavattini
Cesare Zavattini was an Italian screenwriter and one of the first theorists and proponents of the Neorealist movement in Italian cinema.
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culture · Italian screenwriter (1902–1989) · screenwriter · journalist · dramaturge · writer · director · comics artist · playwright · poet · draftsperson · prose writer · also Cesare Zavattini, Zavattini
Born 20 September 1902 · Died 13 October 1989 · Q469164
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2026· 1 entry
2023· 4 entries
Sky: Con Cesare Zavattini oltre i confini della storia
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Blitz quotidiano: Omaggio a Cesare Zavattini: in mostra nella sua Reggio Emilia dipinti e i carteggi con i più grandi artisti
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SIR: Cinema: Roma, presentato in Campidoglio il volume su Cesare Zavattini. Mons. Viganò, “un impegno per custodirne l’eredità culturale e la memoria dell’audiovisivo”
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Tgcom24: L'eredità culturale di Cesare Zavattini in un libro a 120 anni dalla nascita
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2022· 2 entries
Il Fatto Quotidiano: Cesare Zavattini, il Gandhi della Bassa Reggiana che si battè per una pace concreta
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Il Foglio: Cesare Zavattini, un uomo in volo che rompeva le regole giocando con le parole
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2019· 1 entry
L'Unione Sarda: Trent'anni fa la morte di Cesare Zavattini
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2018· 1 entry
Blasting News: Cesare Zavattini, un impegno per il cinema fra presente, passato e futuro
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2009· 1 entry
Exibart: MACROradici del Contemporaneo – Cesare Zavattini
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1989· 1 entry
Died 1989-10-13.
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1985· 1 entry
Awarded Viareggio-Versilia International Prize (1985).
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1983· 1 entry
Was a member of the jury at the 13th Moscow International Film Festival
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1982· 1 entry
Won Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement (1982).
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1979· 1 entry
Was awarded the Honorable Prize for the contribution to cinema
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1952· 1 entry
Zavattini gave an interview to The Italian Film Magazine 2, republished in English as "Some Ideas on the Cinema"
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1949· 1 entry
Awarded Nastro d'Argento for Best Screenplay for Bicycle Thieves (1949).
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1935· 1 entry
Met Vittorio De Sica, beginning a partnership that produced some twenty films, including such masterpieces of Italian neorealism as Sciuscià (1946), Ladri di biciclette (1948), Miracolo a Milano (1951), and Umberto D
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1934· 1 entry
Zavattini received his first screenplay and story credits in 1936
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1930· 1 entry
Relocated to Milan, and worked for the book and magazine publisher Angelo Rizzoli
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1902· 1 entry
Born 1902-09-20.
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