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Cesare Zavattini (20 September 1902 – 13 October 1989) was an Italian screenwriter and one of the first theorists and proponents of the Neorealist movement in Italian cinema. Biography. Born in Luzzara near Reggio Emilia in northern Italy, on 20 September 1902, Zavattini studied law at the University of Parma, but devoted himself to writing.
Cesare Zavattini was an Italian screenwriter, poet, painter, and novelist, known as a leading exponent of Italian Neorealism. Born into a humble family, Zavattini completed a law degree at the University of Parma and began a career in journalism and publishing.
Cesare Zavattini è stato uno sceneggiatore, giornalista, commediografo, scrittore, poeta e pittore italiano. In ambito cinematografico, Zavattini è annoverato tra le figure più rilevanti del neorealismo italiano, di cui fu anche un teorico.
In this ringing manifesto, Cesare Zavattini, who wrote such neorealist films as Shoeshine and Bicycle Thief for the Italian director Vittorio de Sica, laid down a challenge to all film makers "to excavate reality, to give it a power, a com- munication, a series of reflexes, which until recently we had never thought it had."
The name Cesare Zavattini, or Za for short, would be better approached as a field of creative energy fueling and often short-circuiting the Italian cultural scene and its cinema during the last century with reverberations across global cinema.
Each text is preceded by an introduction, providing an essential frame of reference to make these writings entirely accessible to the reader. Volume 2 brings to the fore Zavattini's ever-evolving internal dialogue between diary writer, screenwriter, narrative writer, and political activist.
Zavattini, above and beyond. Neorealism. by Giorgio Bertellini and Courtney Ritter. as one of the key screenwriters and theorists of Italian neoreal- ism.1 This is, however, a most reductive characterization. For.
