Italian screenwriter Tonino Guerra, best known
for his long-standing collaboration with director Michelangelo
Antonioni, has died.
Guerra, who scripted more than 100 screenplays, was nominated
for three Oscars for his work on Antonioni's Blow Up, Fellini's
Amarcord and Casanova 70.
Born in 1920, Guerra, who was also a poet and a sculptor,
began to write during World War II, when he was imprisoned in a
concentration camp in Germany.
He went on to co-author some of the defining Italian films of
the 1960s and 70s, working with a host of legendary directors including
Federico Fellini, Vittorio De Sica and Luchino Visconti.
His prolific career spanned some four decades, and later saw
him working with contemporary Italian filmmakers such as the Taviani
brothers and Cinema Paradiso's Giuseppe Tornatore.
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