Tonino Guerra Author

Tonino Guerra was born in Santarcangelo di Romagna, Italy, in 1920. The son of illiterate peasants, Guerra first started writing poetry in his early twenties while interned in a German prison camp with other anti-fascist protesters. After the war, he moved to Rome where he met the director Elio Petri, heralding the start of his screenwriting career. He went onto produce over one hundred film scripts, receiving Oscar nominations for Carlo Pointi's Casanova 70, and Michelangelo Antoninoi's Blow-Up. In 1975 he won the Academy Award for Fellini's Amarcord.