Valerio Zurlini

Valerio Zurlini

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, Violent Summer (1959), starring Eleonora Rossi Drago and Jean Louis Trintignant . In 1961, Zurlini filmed Girl with a Suitcase , starring Claudia Cardinale , who became a film star in Italy, and Jacques Perrin , who would become Zurlini's favorite actor. His 1962 film Family Diary earned Zurlini the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival (it tied with Tarkovsky 's Ivan's Childhood ). Both The Girls of San Frediano and Family Diary were based on Vasco Pratolini 's work.

  • Title: Valerio Zurlini
  • Popularity: 1.167
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1926-03-19
  • Place of Birth: Bologna, Italy
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  • Also Known As: Валерио Дзурлини
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Valerio Zurlini Movies

  • 2012
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    The Years of Lost Images

    The Years of Lost Images

    1 2012 HD

    A documentary about director Valerio Zurlini. The "lost images" of the title are the movies Zurlini was never able to shoot: between 1962, the year...

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  • 2006
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    Marcello, una vita dolce

    Marcello, una vita dolce

    5.2 2006 HD

    After shooting to fame with Federico Fellini’s “La Dolce Vita” (1960), actor Marcello Mastroianni (1924-1996) starred in more than...

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  • 2024
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    Valerio Zurlini, peintre des sentiments

    Valerio Zurlini, peintre des sentiments

    1 2024 HD

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  • 1972
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    Indian Summer

    Indian Summer

    7.5 1972 HD

    In Italy, the gambler and professor of poetry Daniele Dominici arrives in the seaside town of Rimini and is hired to teach for four months in the...

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  • 1976
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    The Desert of the Tartars

    The Desert of the Tartars

    6.8 1976 HD

    Lieutenant Giovanni Drogo is assigned to the old Bastiani border fortress where he expects an imminent attack by nomadic fearsome Tartars.

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  • 1961
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    Girl with a Suitcase

    Girl with a Suitcase

    7.2 1961 HD

    Lorenzo, who's 16 and born to a wealthy family in Parma, tries to make things right toward a showgirl, Aida, whom his older brother has mistreated....

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  • 1962
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    Family Diary

    Family Diary

    7 1962 HD

    Enrico is a struggling journalist in the Rome of 1945. He receives a phone call informing him that his younger brother Lorenzo has died. Enrico...

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  • 1965
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    The Camp Followers

    The Camp Followers

    6.6 1965 HD

    In WWII, Lieut. Martino and his men are assigned to lead a group of prostitutes through the mountainous ways to serve in brothels for Italian...

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  • 1968
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    Black Jesus

    Black Jesus

    5.4 1968 HD

    A thinly-disguised biography of African leader Patrice Lumumba, here called Lalubi. Lalubi, a Christ-like leader determined to save his people, by...

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  • 1968
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    Black Jesus

    Black Jesus

    5.4 1968 HD

    A thinly-disguised biography of African leader Patrice Lumumba, here called Lalubi. Lalubi, a Christ-like leader determined to save his people, by...

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  • 1968
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    Black Jesus

    Black Jesus

    5.4 1968 HD

    A thinly-disguised biography of African leader Patrice Lumumba, here called Lalubi. Lalubi, a Christ-like leader determined to save his people, by...

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  • 1959
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    Violent Summer

    Violent Summer

    7.2 1959 HD

    Summer, 1943: wealthy youth in the Riccione district of Rimini play while the war gets closer. Carlo Caremoli, a young man who follows the crowd, has...

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  • 1962
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    Family Diary

    Family Diary

    7 1962 HD

    Enrico is a struggling journalist in the Rome of 1945. He receives a phone call informing him that his younger brother Lorenzo has died. Enrico...

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  • 1952
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    The Station

    The Station

    6.3 1952 HD

    A day in the life of a train station.

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  • 1955
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    The Girls of San Frediano

    The Girls of San Frediano

    5.3 1955 HD

    Andrea, a young and charming florentine mechanic in the 1950s, romances five beautiful women simultaneously, enjoying life without really committing...

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  • 1970
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    La promessa

    La promessa

    1 1970 HD

    Marat, Lika and Leonidik, survivors of the atrocities of World War II, meet up by chanche and start helping each other to continue their life.

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  • 1970
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    La promessa

    La promessa

    1 1970 HD

    Marat, Lika and Leonidik, survivors of the atrocities of World War II, meet up by chanche and start helping each other to continue their life.

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  • 1965
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    The Camp Followers

    The Camp Followers

    6.6 1965 HD

    In WWII, Lieut. Martino and his men are assigned to lead a group of prostitutes through the mountainous ways to serve in brothels for Italian...

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  • 1972
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    Indian Summer

    Indian Summer

    7.5 1972 HD

    In Italy, the gambler and professor of poetry Daniele Dominici arrives in the seaside town of Rimini and is hired to teach for four months in the...

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  • 1972
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    Indian Summer

    Indian Summer

    7.5 1972 HD

    In Italy, the gambler and professor of poetry Daniele Dominici arrives in the seaside town of Rimini and is hired to teach for four months in the...

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  • 1969
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    How, When, and with Whom

    How, When, and with Whom

    7 1969 HD

    Paola, wife of a wealthy Turinese industrialist, meets Alberto, a friend of her husband, who emigrated to Argentina and has returned for business...

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  • 1970
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    La promessa

    La promessa

    1 1970 HD

    Marat, Lika and Leonidik, survivors of the atrocities of World War II, meet up by chanche and start helping each other to continue their life.

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  • 1959
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    Violent Summer

    Violent Summer

    7.2 1959 HD

    Summer, 1943: wealthy youth in the Riccione district of Rimini play while the war gets closer. Carlo Caremoli, a young man who follows the crowd, has...

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  • 1959
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    Violent Summer

    Violent Summer

    7.2 1959 HD

    Summer, 1943: wealthy youth in the Riccione district of Rimini play while the war gets closer. Carlo Caremoli, a young man who follows the crowd, has...

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  • 1961
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    Girl with a Suitcase

    Girl with a Suitcase

    7.2 1961 HD

    Lorenzo, who's 16 and born to a wealthy family in Parma, tries to make things right toward a showgirl, Aida, whom his older brother has mistreated....

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  • 1961
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    Girl with a Suitcase

    Girl with a Suitcase

    7.2 1961 HD

    Lorenzo, who's 16 and born to a wealthy family in Parma, tries to make things right toward a showgirl, Aida, whom his older brother has mistreated....

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  • 1976
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    The Desert of the Tartars

    The Desert of the Tartars

    6.8 1976 HD

    Lieutenant Giovanni Drogo is assigned to the old Bastiani border fortress where he expects an imminent attack by nomadic fearsome Tartars.

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  • 1957
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    Guendalina

    Guendalina

    6.5 1957 HD

    Wealthy teenager Guendalina is a child of divorce. Oberdan, likewise a teenager, is a boy from a blue-collar family. Escaping from the tribulations...

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  • 1951
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    Pugilatori

    Pugilatori

    7 1951 HD

    From the middle of an amateur boxing match to its dramatic technical knock-out, the camera follows the quick ballet of the boxers. The action is...

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  • 1952
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    Mercato delle facce

    Mercato delle facce

    1 1952 HD

    An Italian short movie.

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