Valerio Zurlini

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1926-03-19 (56 years old)

Deathday

1982-10-26

Place of Birth

Bologna, Italy

Valerio Zurlini

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, Vio...

Production

1972

Indian Summer

as Director

1961

1962

Family Diary

as Director

1965

1968

Black Jesus

as Director

1968

Black Jesus

as Screenplay

1968

Black Jesus

as Story

1959

Violent Summer

as Director

1962

Family Diary

as Screenplay

1952

The Station

as Director

1970

La promessa

as Screenplay

1970

La promessa

as Editor

1965

1972

1972

Indian Summer

as Screenplay

1969

1970

La promessa

as Director

1959

Violent Summer

as Screenplay

1959

1961

1976

1957

Guendalina

as Story

1951

Pugilatori

as Director

1952

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