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Franco Solinas (19 January 1927 – 14 September 1982) was an Italian writer and screenwriter. [1] He is best known for the screenplays of The Battle of Algiers, which was nominated for three Academy Awards, and State of Siege.
Franco Solinas was an Italian writer and screenwriter active from the 1950s to the early 1980s, who specialized in political and historical films. He is best known for the screenplay of The Battle of Algiers (1966), which was nominated for three Academy Awards.
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- Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy
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- Fiumicino, Lazio, Italy
Franco Solinas was an Italian writer and screenwriter active from the 1950s to the early 1980s, who specialized in political and historical films. He is best known for the screenplay of The Battle of Algiers (1966), which was nominated for three Academy Awards.
- January 19, 1927
- September 14, 1982
Franco Solinas was an Italian writer and screenwriter. He is best known for the screenplay of The Battle of Algiers, which was nominated for three Academy Awards.
Jun 1, 2012 · The most notable was Franco Solinas (1927–1982), a teenaged partisan and longtime member of the Italian Communist Party, journalist for the Communist newspaper L’Unità, and author of Rosi’s Salvatore Giuliano, Pontecorvo’s The Battle of Algiers, and Costa Gavras’s State of Siege (to name a few).
May 27, 2015 · By looking over their shoulders—Costa-Gavras and his scriptwriter, Franco Solinas, arrived in Montevideo to investigate precisely a year after these events, then shot the film in Salvador Allende’s socialist Chile—the makers of State of Siege mean to show and expose them to a wider world.
SOLINAS, Franco. Writer. Nationality: Italian. Born: Sardinia, 1927. Career: Journalist for L'Unità; member of Italian communist party; 1951—first film writing, for Persiane chiuse; 1956—published novel Squarciò. Died: 14 September 1982.
