Director

Valerio Zurlini

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Directed movies: 9Directed series: 0All crew credits: 11

TMDB ID: 229418

IMDb ID: nm0958801

Known for: Directing

Born: March 19, 1926

Died: October 26, 1982

Age: 56

Place of birth: Bologna, Italy

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1955 - 2012

Years active: 58

Average TMDB rating: 7.05

Wikidata: Q53041

Also known as

Валерио Дзурлини

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Biography

Valerio Zurlini (19 March 1926 – 26 October 1982) was an Italian stage and film director and screenwriter. 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 before he directed his first feature film in 1954, The Girls of San Frediano . In 1958, Zurlini won the Nastro d'Argento together with Leonardo Benvenuti , Piero De Bernardi and Alberto Lattuada for Best Script for Lattuada's Guendalina . 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 , starring Claudia Cardinale , who became a film star in Italy, and Jacques Perrin , who would become Zurlini's favorite actor. His 1962 film Family Diary earned Zurlini the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival (it tied with Tarkovsky 's Ivan's Childhood ). Both The Girls of San Frediano and Family Diary were based on Vasco Pratolini 's work.