Franco Brusati (Milan, August 4, 1922 - Rome, February 28, 1993) was an Italian director, screenwriter and playwright.
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Franco Brusati (Milan, August 4, 1922 - Rome, February 28, 1993) was an Italian director, screenwriter and playwright.
Brusati was born in Milan in 1922. After studying in Italy, Switzerland and England, he graduated in law and political science. He then became a collaborator of the Europeo, dealing among other things with the performing arts.
Subsequently, at the end of the 1940s, he moved to Rome, becoming assistant director of Roberto Rossellini and Renato Castellani, and wrote screenplays for Mario Monicelli, Carlo Lizzani, Francesco Rosi and Luciano Emmer, with whom he also became a collaborator for Domenica d'agosto (Sunday in August, 1949). In 1956 he directed his first film, Il maestro sono me, based on the novel of the same name by Alfredo Panzini, obtaining moderate visibility. Within an unequal production, his greatest successes with audiences and critics were I tulipani di Haarlem (1970), Pane e cioccolata (1974) with Nino Manfredi, and Dimenticare Venezia (1979), a mature film with strong references to Ingmar Bergman and Luchino Visconti,[1] who received an Oscar nomination for best foreign film. He was a sensitive and elegant director,[2] author of a cultured cinema with a European breadth. In his works he introduced a crepuscular and melancholic lyricism of literary inspiration, aimed at analyzing psychologies and feelings, but also capable of grasping grotesque notations and of investigating a certain existential discomfort contemporary to him and on important themes such as Italian emigration (Pane e cioccolata) and memory (Dimenticare Venezia), always within a bitter and disenchanted vision of reality.
At the end of the 1950s he began writing for the theatre, making his debut with the comedy Il welfare, written together with Fabio Mauri and staged by Laura Adani, directed by Luigi Squarzina. His comedies were interpreted by some of the greatest Italian actors, from Renzo Ricci to Anna Proclemer, from Enrico Maria Salerno to Giorgio Albertazzi, from Paolo Stoppa to Rina Morelli. Sometimes the stagings were curated by Brusati himself.
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