Tonino Guerra started writing in a German concentration camp. The optimistic writer lifted man a step up in all his works.
Italy, 1930s. A teenager, Tonino by name, was looking at one of the most famous dictators of that period, Benito Mussolini, with admiration so that he could properly mock him years later.
Paper was Tonino’s inseparable friend; he expressed his expressions on paper… and also on stone and canvas. He was interested in football, saxophone and, of course, cinema. It was thanks to his comprehensive talent that Tonino Guerra was often compared with Leonardo Da Vinci: the latter was among the first knights of Renaissance, and Tonino became the last.
Tonino Guerra started writing in a German concentration camp. The optimistic writer lifted man a step up in all his works. Parajanov once said that if you do not know Tonino Guerra, you are an unhappy person.
Tonino Guerra achieved glory gradually. On the first steps of his success he was with Michelangelo Antonioni. The creators of “Blow up” film could not even imagine that they were creating a classical work. Thanks to this work they both won an Oscar.
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