Adriano Bolzoni

Adriano Bolzoni (14 April 1919 – 2003)[1] was an Italian journalist, writer and film director.

Adriano Bolzoni
Born(1919-04-14)14 April 1919
Cremona, Italy
Died2003 (aged 83–84)
Italy
Occupation(s)Film director, film producer, screenwriter

Life and career

Born in Cremona, Bolzoni started his career as a journalist, being war correspondent from the front of World War II. 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 as film critic.[2][3] In the 1960s he became editor of the newspaper Corriere della Sera.[2]

Bolzoni entered the cinema industry in 1948, collaborating at the screenplay of the adventure film I contrabbandieri del mare, directed by Roberto Bianchi Montero;[4] later he was a prolific screenwriter, arousing some fame with several successful Spaghetti Westerns and poliziotteschi.[4] He was also an occasional director of films and documentaries and an essayist.[4]

Partial filmography

References

Footnotes
  1. Cine70 e dintorni, Volume 4, Coniglio Editore, 2003.
  2. Tullio Kezich (23 January 1994). "Pasolini dalla parte degli infedeli". Corriere della Sera. Retrieved 15 May 2012.
  3. Marco Antonio Bazzocchi (1998). Pier Paolo Pasolini. Pearson, 1998. ISBN 8842494607.
  4. Roberto Poppi. I registi: dal 1930 ai giorni nostri. Gremese Editore, 2002.
  5. Lucas 2013, p. 594.
  6. Lucas 2013, p. 634.
  7. Curti 2016, p. 60.

Sources
  • Curti, Roberto (2016). Diabolika: Supercriminals, Superheroes and the Comic Book Universe in Italian Cinema. Midnight Marquee Press. ISBN 978-1-936168-60-6.
  • Lucas, Tim (2013). Mario Bava - All the Colors of the Dark. ISBN 978-0-9633756-1-2.


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