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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. He also wrote the 1969 historical drama ¡Queimada!, starring Marlon Brando.
- Screenwriter
- 1951–1982
Writer: The Battle of Algiers. 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 1, 1
- Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy
- January 1, 1
- Fiumicino, Lazio, Italy
Jun 1, 2012 · With the escalation of the Vietnam War, every Marxist intellectual, it seemed, wanted to write a Western. 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.
Writer: The Battle of Algiers. 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
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.
Known For. The Battle of Algiers. Mr. Klein. The Big Gundown. The Mercenary. Burn! A Bullet for the General. Salvatore Giuliano. State of Siege. Writing. 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.
The director and his coscreenwriter, Franco Solinas, wanted to commemorate the popular uprising that had succeeded in ousting the French from Algeria in July 1962.
