Adriano Bolzoni (14 April 1919 – 2003) was an Italian journalist, writer and film director.
Life and career
Born in
Cremona
Cremona (, also ; ; lmo, label= Cremunés, Cremùna; egl, Carmona) is a city and ''comune'' in northern Italy, situated in Lombardy, on the left bank of the Po river in the middle of the ''Pianura Padana'' (Po Valley). It is the capital of the ...
, Bolzoni started his career as a journalist, being war correspondent from the front of
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the World War II by country, vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great power ...
. Later, he became director of ''Reporter'', a right-wing weekly magazine published between 1959 and 1960 which is best remembered for having
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Pier Paolo Pasolini (; 5 March 1922 – 2 November 1975) was an Italian poet, filmmaker, writer and intellectual who also distinguished himself as a journalist, novelist, translator, playwright, visual artist and actor. He is considered one of ...
as film critic.
In the 1960s he became editor of the newspaper ''
Corriere della Sera
The ''Corriere della Sera'' (; en, "Evening Courier") is an Italian daily newspaper published in Milan with an average daily circulation of 410,242 copies in December 2015.
First published on 5 March 1876, ''Corriere della Sera'' is one of I ...
''.
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Bolzoni entered the cinema industry in 1948, collaborating at the screenplay of the adventure film ''I contrabbandieri del mare'', directed by ]Roberto Bianchi Montero
Roberto Bianchi Montero (7 December 1907 - 7 December 1986) was an Italian actor, director and screenwriter.
Life and career
Born in Rome, Bianchi Montero started acting as a teenager on stage and he was a member of an amateur theater group w ...
;Spaghetti Western
The Spaghetti Western is a broad subgenre of Western films produced in Europe. It emerged in the mid-1960s in the wake of Sergio Leone's film-making style and international box-office success. The term was used by foreign critics because most ...
s and poliziotteschi
Poliziotteschi (; singular ''poliziottesco'') constitute a subgenre of crime and action films that emerged in Italy in the late 1960s and reached the height of their popularity in the 1970s. They are also known as ''polizieschi all'italiana'', ' ...
.[ He was also an occasional director of films and documentaries and an essayist.][
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Partial filmography
* ''I'm the Capataz
''I'm the Capataz'' (Italian: ''Io sono il capataz'') is a 1951 Italian western-comedy film directed by Giorgio Simonelli and starring Renato Rascel, Silvana Pampanini and Marilyn Buferd.
It was shot at the Incir-De Paolis Studios in Rome. The f ...
'' (1951)
* ''Minnesota Clay
''Minnesota Clay'' is a 1964 Spaghetti Western directed by Sergio Corbucci.
Plot
The year is 1883. Clay, a gunfighter with health problems, is interned in Drunner Labor Camp. He's determined to prove his innocence since he was framed by Fox, the ...
'' (1964) Screenwriter
* ''Savage Gringo
''Savage Gringo'' ( it, Ringo del Nebraska) is a 1966 Western film starring Ken Clark. The film is about a drifter who protects a rancher couple from a ruthless landowner. Under its Italian title, ''Savage Gringo'' was one of numerous Spaghetti ...
'' (1966) Screenwriter
* ''Avenger X
''Avenger X'' ( it, Mister-X) is a 1967 film based on the Italian comic series '.
Plot
George Lamarro is the head of a pharmaceutical company that is also involved in the production and distribution of illegal narcotics. When his secretary attem ...
'' (1967) Story
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1919 births
Writers from Cremona
Italian film directors
20th-century Italian screenwriters
Italian male journalists
2003 deaths
Italian war correspondents
War correspondents of World War II
Italian male screenwriters
20th-century Italian journalists
Mass media people from Cremona
20th-century Italian male writers
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