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As per our current Database, Valerio Zurlini has been died on 26 October, 1982 at Verona, Veneto, Italy.
🎂 Valerio Zurlini - Age, Bio, Faces and Birthday
When Valerio Zurlini die, Valerio Zurlini was 56 years old.
| Popular As |
Valerio Zurlini |
| Occupation |
Writer |
| Age |
56 years old |
| Zodiac Sign |
Pisces |
| Born |
March 19, 1926 (Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy) |
| Birthday |
March 19 |
| Town/City |
Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy |
| Nationality |
Italy |
🌙 Zodiac
Valerio Zurlini’s zodiac sign is Pisces. According to astrologers, Pisces are very friendly, so they often find themselves in a company of very different people. Pisces are selfless, they are always willing to help others, without hoping to get anything back. Pisces is a Water sign and as such this zodiac sign is characterized by empathy and expressed emotional capacity.
🌙 Chinese Zodiac Signs
Valerio Zurlini was born in the Year of the Tiger. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Tiger are authoritative, self-possessed, have strong leadership qualities, are charming, ambitious, courageous, warm-hearted, highly seductive, moody, intense, and they’re ready to pounce at any time. Compatible with Horse or Dog.
Valerio Zurlini was born on March 19, 1926. During his law studies in Rome, he started working in the theatre. In 1943, he joined the Italian resistance. Zurlini became a member of the Italian Communist Party.
He filmed short documentaries in the immediate post-war period and in 1954 directed his first feature film, Le ragazze di San Frediano (1955), his only comedy. In 1958, together with Leonardo Benvenuti, Piero De Bernardi and Alberto Lattuada, he won the Silver Ribbon for Best Script for Lattuada's Guendalina (1957).
Zurlini made his name as a director with his second feature film, Violent Summer (1959), starring Eleonora Rossi Drago and Jean-Louis Trintignant.In 1961 Zurlini filmed Girl with a Suitcase (1961), a successful drama, starring Claudia Cardinale and Jacques Perrin, who would become Zurlini's favorite actor.
In 1962 Zurlini's film Family Portrait (1962) earned him the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival (it tied with Andrei Tarkovsky's Ivan's Childhood (1962)). Zurlini had a masterful skill for screen adaptations Both Le ragazze di San Frediano (1955) and Family Portrait (1962) were based on Vasco Pratolini's work.
Zurlini admired the work of Italian novelist Giorgio Bassani and hoped to adapt his novel "The Garden of the Finzi-Continis," which was subsequently directed by Vittorio De Sica (see The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970)).
His 1965 film The Camp Followers (1965) was entered into the 4th Moscow International Film Festival where it won the Special Silver Prize. Zurlini's last film, Il deserto dei tartari (1976), produced by Jacques Perrin and featuring an all-star ensemble, was based on Dino Buzzati's novel of the same name.
The movie won both the David di Donatello for Best Director and the Silver Ribbon for Best Director.The visual style of Zurlini's adaptations was informed by artists Giorgio De Chirico, Giorgio Morandi and Ottone Rosai.
During the last years of his life, Zurlini taught at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome and worked as a dubbing director for the Italian versions for such movies as The Deer Hunter (1978) and Mon oncle d'Amérique (1980).
He died of stomach hemorrhage in Verona on October 27, 1982.
Valerio Zurlini Movies
- Family Portrait (1962) as Writer
- Il deserto dei tartari (1976) as Writer
- Violent Summer (1959) as Writer
- Girl with a Suitcase (1961) as Writer
Important Facts about Valerio Zurlini
Often worked with actor Jacques Perrin.
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