---
name: "Alberto Moravia"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/alberto-moravia"
fi1m_id: "alberto-moravia"
imdb_id: "nm0603179"
tmdb_id: 3780
wikidata_id: "Q161933"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "28 November 1907"
died: "26 September 1990"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 84
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-25T06:35:33.353663+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Alberto Moravia

## Identity

Alberto Moravia

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/alberto-moravia
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** alberto-moravia
- **IMDb ID:** nm0603179
- **TMDB ID:** 3780
- **Wikidata ID:** Q161933
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Moravia, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q161933, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0603179/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3780

Writer. Born 28 November 1907 in Rome, Italy. Died 26 September 1990.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 28 November 1907, Rome, Italy
- **Died:** 26 September 1990
- **Active:** 1943–1971
- **Also known as:** Alberto Pincherle
- **Average Fi1m score:** 84, as writer, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1940s 82 (1), 1970s 87 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Moravia, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q161933, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0603179/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3780

## Biography

Alberto Moravia, born Alberto Pincherle, was an Italian novelist and journalist. He was born in Rome on 28 November 1907 and died there on 26 September 1990.

His debut novel, *Gli indifferenti* (1929), was followed by works including *Il conformista* (1951), the source for Bernardo Bertolucci’s film *The Conformist* (1970). Other novels adapted for cinema include those that became *Two Women* (1960), *Contempt* (1963) and *The Empty Canvas* (1964).

Moravia contributed to the screenplay of Luchino Visconti’s *Ossessione* (1943). He also worked as a film critic and journalist.

*Sources: britannica.com, en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *The Conformist* (1971), Fi1m 87, Novel — [page](https://film.one/film/the-conformist.md)
- *Obsession* (1943), Fi1m 82, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/obsession-1943.md)

## Complete filmography (63)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Time of Indifference* (2021), Novel
- *3xƐ* (2018), Writer
- *Inséparables* (2000), Story
- *L'ennui* (1998), Novel
- *„Zavřeno pro rodinný smutek“* (1995), Short Story
- *The Voyeur* (1994), Novel
- *Husbands and Lovers* (1991), Novel
- *Suffocating Heat* (1991), Actor
- *Time of Indifference* (1991), Novel
- *The Belt* (1989), Novel
- *Running Away* (1989), Writer
- *The Roman* (1988), series, Novel, Creator
- *Me and Him* (1988), Novel
- *The Peddler* (1987), Author
- *Attention* (1985), Novel
- *Inverno di malato* (1983), Writer
- *Disobedience* (1981), Novel
- *Desideria* (1980), Novel
- *Contempt* (1976), Original Story
- *Savage Man Savage Beast* (1975), as Narrator (voice)
- *Alcune Afriche* (1975), series, Writer
- *Mondo Magic* (1975), Writer
- *Io e lui* (1973), Story
- *Two Women* (1973), series, Novel
- *Orders are Orders* (1972), Novel
- *The Conformist* (1971), Novel — Fi1m 87, [page](https://film.one/film/the-conformist.md)
- *Římanka* (1970), series, Novel
- *Conjugal Love* (1970), Novel
- *The Rage Within* (1969), Story
- *The Invisible Woman* (1969), Short Story
- *A Rather Complicated Girl* (1969), Story
- *The Wild Eye* (1967), Writer
- *Time of Indifference* (1964), Novel
- *Le ore nude* (1964), Novel
- *Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow* (1963), Short Story
- *The Empty Canvas* (1963), Novel
- *Contempt* (1963), Novel
- *Sex Can Be Difficult* (1962), Novel
- *Agostino* (1962), Novel
- *Always on Sunday* (1962), Story
- *Studio 4* (1962), series, Novel
- *Italy Is Not a Poor Country* (1960), Writer
- *Two Women* (1960), Novel
- *From a Roman Balcony* (1960), Novel, Screenplay
- *The Passionate Thief* (1960), Novel
- *The Dolphins* (1960), Screenplay
- *Le Bel Âge* (1960), Novel
- *Love on the Riviera* (1958), Screenplay, Story
- *Roman Tales* (1955), Novel, Co-Writer
- *Woman of the River* (1954), Story
- *Too Bad She's Bad* (1954), Novel
- *Woman of Rome* (1954), Screenplay, Novel
- *The Anatomy of Love* (1954), Story
- *The She-Wolf* (1953), Screenplay
- *The Wayward Wife* (1953), Novel
- *Sensualità* (1952), Screenplay
- *Last Meeting* (1951), Screenplay
- *Blame the Sun* (1951), Director, Writer
- *La freccia nel fianco* (1945), Screenplay
- *Zazà* (1944), Screenplay
- *Obsession* (1943), Screenplay — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/obsession-1943.md)
- *The Sin of Rogelia Sánchez* (1939), Writer
- *Agostino*, Original Story

## Gallery

- ![Alberto Moravia](https://film.one/media/person/154837/gallery-a63c6cb97793.jpg) Alberto Moravia — Paolo Monti, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b9/Paolo_Monti_-_Servizio_fotografico_-_BEIC_6361580_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Gli indifferenti Alberto Moravia Traducció catalana de Miquel Llor publicada a Badalona l'any 1932 (2022)](https://film.one/media/person/154837/gallery-d358c0c1d080.jpg) Gli indifferenti Alberto Moravia Traducció catalana de Miquel Llor publicada a Badalona l'any 1932 (2022) — Blau-Barcelona, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Alberto_Moravia_Gli_indifferenti_1932_traduzzione_catalana.jpg/1280px-Alberto_Moravia_Gli_indifferenti_1932_traduzzione_catalana.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Bosco Foce dell'Arrone. Vista della casa che fu fatta ricostruire da Alberto Moravia. (2014)](https://film.one/media/person/154837/gallery-45f8916c31ff.jpg) Bosco Foce dell'Arrone. Vista della casa che fu fatta ricostruire da Alberto Moravia. (2014) — Roberto Agostino, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Casa_costruita_da_Alberto_Moravia.jpg/1280px-Casa_costruita_da_Alberto_Moravia.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Conférence de presse, Moravia et le Cinema, Festival du Cinema Italien d'Annecy 1986, avec Jean Gili, Alberto Moravia et Gaspare Di Caro (2015)](https://film.one/media/person/154837/gallery-b6a38a819f28.jpg) Conférence de presse, Moravia et le Cinema, Festival du Cinema Italien d'Annecy 1986, avec Jean Gili, Alberto Moravia et Gaspare Di Caro (2015) — Gaspare Di Caro, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Jean_Gili%2C_Albert_Moravia%2C_Gaspare_Di_Caro.jpg/1280px-Jean_Gili%2C_Albert_Moravia%2C_Gaspare_Di_Caro.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Woman of Rome (1954) (2014)](https://film.one/media/person/154837/gallery-85daaba083a0.jpg) Woman of Rome (1954) (2014) — Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Lollo%2Bmoravia_la_romana_1954.jpg/1280px-Lollo%2Bmoravia_la_romana_1954.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![The Italian writer Alberto Moravia photographed with a woman at the Einaudi bookstore on Via Vittorio Veneto in Rome. (1962)](https://film.one/media/person/154837/gallery-de0c5c748b68.jpg) The Italian writer Alberto Moravia photographed with a woman at the Einaudi bookstore on Via Vittorio Veneto in Rome. (1962) — Unknown authorUnknown author, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Photo_The_Italian_writer_Alberto_Moravia_photographed_with_a_woman_at_the_Einaudi_bookstore_on_Via_Vittorio_Veneto_in_Rome_1962_-_Touring_Club_Italiano_11_5419.jpg/1280px-thumbnail.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Other awards — 4 won, 11 nominated

- Viareggio-Versilia International Prize 1983: Viareggio-Versilia International Prize (won)
- Nobel Prize in Literature 1965: Nobel Prize in Literature (nominated)
- Nobel Prize in Literature 1964: Nobel Prize in Literature (nominated)
- Nobel Prize in Literature 1963: Nobel Prize in Literature (nominated)
- Nobel Prize in Literature 1962: Nobel Prize in Literature (nominated)
- Nobel Prize in Literature 1961: Nobel Prize in Literature (nominated)
- Viareggio Prize 1961: Viareggio Prize (won)
- Nobel Prize in Literature 1960: Nobel Prize in Literature (nominated)
- Nobel Prize in Literature 1959: Nobel Prize in Literature (nominated)
- Nobel Prize in Literature 1958: Nobel Prize in Literature (nominated)
- Nobel Prize in Literature 1957: Nobel Prize in Literature (nominated)
- Nobel Prize in Literature 1955: Nobel Prize in Literature (nominated)
- Marzotto Prize 1954: Marzotto Prize (won)
- Strega Prize 1952: Strega Prize (won)
- Nobel Prize in Literature 1949: Nobel Prize in Literature (nominated)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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