Valerio Zurlini

Italy

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Born in Bologna in 1926, Valerio Zurlini is an Italian director and screenwriter, an important yet little-known figure in post-war Italian cinema. After studying law and art history, he turned to cinema, making some fifteen short films between 1948 and 1955. In 1959, he directed Été violent and the following year, he enjoyed critical and popular success with The Girl with the Suitcase (1960)starring Jacques Perrin and Claudia Cardinale, in one of his first major film roles. In 1962, he reunited with Jacques Perrin, this time accompanied by Marcello Mastroianni, in Diarywhich won the Golden Lion for Best Director at the Venice Film Festival. These three films sensitively evoke the outpouring of love and the existential despair of people aware of the sociological and political difficulties in which they live. In 1972, he directed The Professor with Lea Massari and Alain Delon, whom he chose again for his film Tartar Desert (1976)an ambitious film shot in Iran, with an exceptional cast including Vittorio Gassman, Giuliano Gemma, Philippe Noiret, Jacques Perrin, Jean-Louis Trintignant and Ennio Morricone. His films, which are often co-produced by France, often feature great French actors such as Delon, Perrin, Trintignant and Anna Karina.

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🎨 Feature films (1)

1960 – La Fille à la valise (La ragazza con la valigia) Role : Director
Synopsis : Aida, a young woman who sings for a living, is trying to find Marcello, a young man from a good family who abandoned her after promising her everything. She tracks him down and meets his younger brother, Lorenzo. Lorenzo disapproves of Marcello's behavior and feels compassion for Aida. This compassion soon turns to fascination, and then to love. Zurlini's work is as refined as it is incisive on the cruelty of class relations and the disillusionment of youth, and the Perrin-Cardinale duo infuse it with beauty and grace. The story of a relationship between Aida, who sings for a living, and Lorenzo, a young man from a good family who takes a liking to her.

Synopsis : Aida, a young woman who sings for a living, is trying to find Marcello, a young man from a good family who abandoned her after promising her everything. She tracks him down and meets his younger brother, Lorenzo. Lorenzo disapproves of Marcello's behavior and feels compassion for Aida. This compassion soon turns to fascination, and then to love. Zurlini's work is as refined as it is incisive on the cruelty of class relations and the disillusionment of youth, and the Perrin-Cardinale duo infuse it with beauty and grace. The story of a relationship between Aida, who sings for a living, and Lorenzo, a young man from a good family who takes a liking to her.