Tonino Guerra died

The famous screenwriter, poet Tonino Guerra died in Italy on Wednesday at the 93rd year of his life. According to RIA Novosti, this was announced by the head of the Italian Institute of Culture in Moscow, Professor Adriano del Asta. “I have tragic news. Tonino Guerra died,” the professor said. There is no data on the date and place of the funeral yet.

Tonino Guerra was born on March 16, 1920 in the small Italian town of Sant-Arkanjelo in the northern region of Italy, near Rimini. He wrote scripts for more than 100 films, many of which became classic. Guerra worked with the classics of world cinema, including Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, Andrey Tarkovsky, Theo Angelopulos.

Guerra was closely connected with Russia. He was married to Eleanor Yablochkina and joked that he was Russian on his wife. The screenwriter repeatedly came first to the USSR, and then to Russia, where he had many friends among artists, poets, filmmakers. Guerra's poems were translated by his close friend Bella Akhmadulina, and the exhibitions of his works were held at the Plane. Pushkin and the Gallery "House of Nashchokin".

He was awarded the Academy Academy of the Oscar for the scripts for the films "Casanova" (1966); "Photo Equipment" ("Blot-AP", 1967); "Amarkord" (1976), "Night of St. Lorenzo."

Tonino Guerrai scenarios were marked by the main award of the Cannes Film Festival - “Golden Palm Branch” (“Adventure”, “Zabriski Point”, “Blood -AP”, “Night of St. Lorenzo”, “Amarkord”, “and the ship floating”, “Journey to the Citer”). In 1995, he was awarded the Prize of the Moscow International Festival "For Contribution to World Cinema."

Guerra was an honorary doctor of sciences of universities Urbino, Bordeaux, VGIK, St. Petersburg University of Cinema.

On the 90th anniversary of the poet and artist in 2010, the premiere of the play "Honey" according to the poem of Tonino Guerrai took place at the Moscow Theater on Taganka.