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name: "Franco Brusati"
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roles: ["Writer"]
born: "4 August 1922"
died: "28 February 1993"
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# Franco Brusati

Writer. Born 4 August 1922 in Milano, Lombardia, Italia. Died 28 February 1993.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 4 August 1922, Milano, Lombardia, Italia
- **Died:** 28 February 1993
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco_Brusati, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q955524, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0116663/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/49552

## Biography

Franco Brusati (1922–1993) was an Italian screenwriter, director and playwright. He studied law and political science at the University of Milan and the University of Geneva, and worked as a journalist before entering the film industry in the late 1940s as an assistant director to Roberto Rossellini and Renato Castellani. He wrote screenplays for directors including Mario Camerini, Luciano Emmer and Franco Zeffirelli.

Brusati made his directorial debut with *Il padrone sono me* (1956) and went on to direct films such as *Il disordine* (1962), *I tulipani di Haarlem* (1970) and *Pane e cioccolata* (*Bread and Chocolate*, 1974). His screenplay credits include *Romeo and Juliet* (1968), *Ulisse* (*Ulysses*, 1954) and *Domenica d'agosto* (*Sunday in August*, 1950). *Pane e cioccolata* and *Dimenticare Venezia* (*To Forget Venice*, 1979) both won the David di Donatello for Best Film; the latter received an Academy Award nomination for Best International Feature Film. In 1983 he served on the jury of the Berlin International Film Festival.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, it.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, dfi.dk.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Romeo and Juliet* (1968), Fi1m 75, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/romeo-and-juliet-1968.md)

## Complete filmography (29)

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

- *The Sleazy Uncle* (1989), Director, Screenplay, Story
- *The Good Soldier* (1982), Director, Screenplay
- *To Forget Venice* (1979), Director, Writer
- *Bread and Chocolate* (1974), Director, Story, Screenplay
- *Tulips of Haarlem* (1970), Director, Writer
- *The Girl Who Couldn't Say No* (1968), Director, Story, Screenplay
- *Black Jesus* (1968), Screenplay
- *Romeo and Juliet* (1968), Screenplay — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/film/romeo-and-juliet-1968.md)
- *The Three Faces* (1965), Writer
- *Smog* (1962), Screenplay
- *Violent Life* (1962), Story
- *Disorder* (1962), Story, Screenplay, Director
- *Run with the Devil* (1960), Screenplay
- *Il padrone sono me* (1955), Director, Screenplay
- *Ulysses* (1954), Screenplay
- *Human Torpedoes* (1954), Screenplay
- *100 Years of Love* (1954), Screenplay
- *The Age of Indiscretion* (1953), Screenplay
- *The Unfaithfuls* (1953), Screenplay
- *Sunday Heroes* (1952), Story, Screenplay
- *Il romanzo della mia vita* (1952), Screenplay
- *Wife for a Night* (1952), Screenplay
- *The Machine That Kills Bad People* (1952), Screenplay
- *Anna* (1951), Story, Screenplay
- *Honeymoon Deferred* (1951), First Assistant Director, Screenplay
- *Outlaw Girl* (1950), Screenplay
- *The Accusation* (1950), Screenplay
- *Sunday in August* (1950), Screenplay
- *Under the Sun of Rome* (1948), Second Assistant Director

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