Tullio Kezich

Tullio Kezich ( born September 17, 1928 in Trieste, † August 17, 2009 in Rome ) was an Italian film critic, screenwriter, writer and dramatist.

Life

Kezich began his career in 1946 as a journalist with the Radio Trieste, for which he reported, among other things, the Venice Film Festival. Since the 1950s, he wrote regularly for film journals, including Sipario its director from 1971 to 1974 and known for music such as Panorama, La Repubblica and Corriere della Sera.

Was after he frontiere by Luigi Zampa in 1949 production secretary the movie Cuori senza been, he founded in 1961 with Ermanno Olmi society 22 dicembre, for which he as artistic director until 1965 films by Olmi himself, as well as, among others, Roberto Rossellini and Lina Wertmueller cooperated. In Olmis Il Posto (1961 ), he had a role as an actor. From 1964 worked Kezich also as a dramatist. From 1969 to 1984 he worked as a producer for RAI.

In 1984 he was a member of the international jury at the Berlin Film Festival. Kezich wrote screenplays ( as for Olmis The Legend of the Holy Drinker by the novel by Joseph Roth, who in 1988 won the Golden Lion in Venice ), plays and several books, including a biography of Fellini.

Bibliography (selection)

• Il western maggio renne, Zigiotti Editore, Trieste 1953
• L' uomo di sfiducia, Bompiani, Milano 1962
• Il dolce cinema, Bompiani, Milano 1978
• Su la Dolce Vita con Federico Fellini, Marsilio, Venezia 1996
• Il campeggio di Duttogliano e altri ricordi, Sellerio, Palermo 2001, ISBN 8,838,917,256th
• Federico - Fellini, la vita ei movie, Feltrinelli, Milano 2002, ISBN 880749020X (German Federico Fellini - A biography Diogenes Verlag, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3257064977 ).