The writer, poet and screenwriter Tonino War He died at the age of 92 in Santarcangelo di Romagna (Rimini province), the city where he was born. The artist had returned to his village to spend his last years after falling ill in
Guerra worked with some of the best directors such as Fellini, Lucchino, Visconti, Vittorio De Sica, Andréi Tarkovski or the recently disappeared Theo Angelopoulos. Although the director who collaborated the most was Michelangelo Antonioni.
During World War II he was held in a concentration camp until the liberation of Italy, at which point he began his foray into the seventh art. Before all this, Tonino Guerra was a school teacher.
His are the librettos for "Zabriskie Point", "Amarcord", "Ginger and Fred", "Blow-Up", and so on to almost 80 films, many of them key works in the history of cinema.
He received the De Sica Award and the European Cinema Oscar, shows the great work done in the world of celluloid.
Tonino Guerra was undoubtedly one of the greatest representatives of the italian cinema both inside and outside its borders.