Name
Cesare Zavattini
Known For
Writing
Birthday
1902-09-20
Deathday
1989-10-13 (87 years old)
Place of Birth
Luzzara, Italy
Biography
Cesare Zavattini (20 September 1902 – 13 October 1989) was an Italian screenwriter. In 1935 he met Vittorio De Sica, beginning a partnership that produced over twenty films, including such masterpieces of Italian neorealism as Shoeshine (1946), Bicycle Thieves (1948), Miracle in Milan (1951), and Umberto D (1952).
Known For
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Unemployed Antonio is elated when he finally finds work hanging posters around war-torn Ro...
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World War II vet Paul Sutton falls for a pregnant and unwed woman who persuades him -- dur...
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In his first collaboration with renowned screenwriter and longtime partner Cesare Zavattin...
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Three tales of very different women using their sexuality as a means to getting what they ...
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When elderly pensioner Umberto Domenico Ferrari returns to his boarding house from a prote...
- 1967 Cinéma et Réalité as Self
- 1958 Il Pranzo di Natale a casa di Cesare Zavattini
- 1982 The Truth as Antonio
- 2003 Cesare Zavattini as Self
- 1989 Strand, Under the Dark Cloth as Self
- 1965 Antonioni: Documents and Testimonials as Self
- 1971 Pier Paolo Pasolini: A Film Maker's Life as Self
- 1993 La prima volta che Zavattini provò ad usare un videotape as Self
- 2009 Hollywood sul Tevere
- 2019 Cesare Zavattini on “Italiani con Paolo Miele,” 2019 as Himself
- 2026 Vittorio De Sica: Staging Life as Self (Archive Footage)
- 1976 Babau ( 1 episode )
- 2025 Quelli che il cinema ( 20 episodes ) as Self
