Franco Solinas

Franco Solinas

Nascimento : 1927-01-19, Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy

Morte : 1982-09-14

História

Franco Solinas was an Italian writer and screenwriter. He is best known for the screenplay of The Battle of Algiers, which was nominated for three Academy Awards.

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Franco Solinas

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Hanna K.
Writer
Israeli attorney Hanna Kaufman has her beliefs challenged when she is appointed to the defense of Selim Bakri. Kaufman, who was born in the United States to survivors of the Holocaust, has always accepted Israel's right to exist. But she bears witness to some of the costs of its sovereignty when she meets Bakri, a dispossessed Palestinian man facing serious criminal charges who wants the same thing as his supposed enemies: to reclaim his family home.
Cidadão Klein
Screenplay
Sr. Klein, um negociante de artes, se aproveita da situação dos judeus durante a ocupação de Paris para comprar e vender obras dos que querem fugir da França. Ao saber que é suspeito de ser judeu pelas autoridades nazistas, ele procura a identidade de outro Sr. Klein.
The Suspect
Screenplay
Fascism has forced the leadership of the Italian Communist Party to settle in Paris. In Italy arrests of militants are decimating the organization, so Emilio is sent on a mission in the area of Turin, to put out of harm whistleblowers.
Estado de Sítio
Scenario Writer
No Uruguai, no início dos anos 1970, um funcionário da Agência para o Desenvolvimento Internacional (um grupo usado como uma frente para a formação policial estrangeira ) é seqüestrado por um grupo de guerrilha urbana. Usando seu interrogatório como um pano de fundo, o filme explora as consequências frequentemente brutal da luta entre o governo do Uruguai e da guerrilha esquerdista Tupamaro.
Estado de Sítio
Writer
No Uruguai, no início dos anos 1970, um funcionário da Agência para o Desenvolvimento Internacional (um grupo usado como uma frente para a formação policial estrangeira ) é seqüestrado por um grupo de guerrilha urbana. Usando seu interrogatório como um pano de fundo, o filme explora as consequências frequentemente brutal da luta entre o governo do Uruguai e da guerrilha esquerdista Tupamaro.
O Assassinato de Trotsky
Screenplay
Após abandonar a União Soviética, em 1929, Trotsky consegue asilo no México. Em 1940, na capital, onde cuida de plantas e aparenta levar uma vida simples, um agente de Stalin, o espanhol de codinome Frank Jackson, começa a persegui-lo para assassiná-lo.
Queimada
Screenplay
The professional mercenary Sir William Walker instigates a slave revolt on the Caribbean island of Queimada in order to help improve the British sugar trade. Years later he is sent again to deal with the same rebels that he built up because they have seized too much power that now threatens British sugar interests.
Queimada
Story
The professional mercenary Sir William Walker instigates a slave revolt on the Caribbean island of Queimada in order to help improve the British sugar trade. Years later he is sent again to deal with the same rebels that he built up because they have seized too much power that now threatens British sugar interests.
Tepepa
Screenplay
The Mexican guerilla leader Tepepa and his gang fight against the chief of police, Cascorro.
Os Violentos Vão para o Inferno
Story
Franco Nero, Jack Palance e Tony Musante estrelam este clássico dos filmes de western, dirigido pelo especialista no gênero Sergio Corbuci. O mercenário Kowalski (Nero) é especialista em armas e usa suas habilidades como assassino profissional. As coisas se complicam quando ele bate de frente com o malfeitor Ricciolo (Palance).
Uma Bala Para o General
Writer
Revolução mexicana, popular líder revolucionário protege e conduz um mercenário americano, sem desconfiar das intenções do estrangeiro.
Uma Bala Para o General
Adaptation
Revolução mexicana, popular líder revolucionário protege e conduz um mercenário americano, sem desconfiar das intenções do estrangeiro.
O Dia da Desforra
Story
Jonathan Corbett (Lee Van Cleef), um famoso caçador de recompensas com aspirações políticas, topa perseguir o exímio atirador de facas mexicano Cuchillo Sanchez (Tomas Milian). Apesar de Cuchillo não demonstrar preocupação com esconderijos, ele sempre arma um plano inusitado para fugir.
A Batalha de Argel
Writer
Os eventos decisivos da guerra pela independência da Argélia, marco do processo de libertação das colônias européias na África. Entre 1954 e 1957 é mostrado o modo de agir dos dois lados do conflito, a Frente de Libertação Nacional e o exército francês. Enquanto que o exército usava técnicas de tortura e eliminava o maior número possível de rebeldes, a FLN desenvolvia técnicas não-convencionais de combate, baseadas na guerrilha e no terrorismo.
Mulheres no Front
Writer
In WWII, Lieut. Martino and his men are assigned to lead a group of prostitutes through the mountainous ways to serve in brothels for Italian soldiers in Albania.
Violent Life
Screenplay
Tommaso Puzzilli is a boy who grew up in the suburb of Pietralata outside Rome. Not having a job, Tommaso and his friends are committing crimes to make money.
O Bandido Giuliano
Story
Sicilian bandit Salvatore Giuliano's bullet-riddled corpse is found facedown in a courtyard in Castelvetrano, a handgun and rifle by his side. Local and international press descend upon the scene, hoping to crack open the true story behind the death of this young man, who, at the age of twenty-seven, had already become Italy’s most wanted criminal and celebrated hero.
O Bandido Giuliano
Screenplay
Sicilian bandit Salvatore Giuliano's bullet-riddled corpse is found facedown in a courtyard in Castelvetrano, a handgun and rifle by his side. Local and international press descend upon the scene, hoping to crack open the true story behind the death of this young man, who, at the age of twenty-seven, had already become Italy’s most wanted criminal and celebrated hero.
Madame Sans-Gêne
Novel
Catherine Hubscher, who washes the shirts of young Napoleon and other soldiers fighting the Revolution, falls in love with Sergeant Lefebvre. Circumstances bring Lefebvre a noble title and even more -- Napoleon decides to make him the local ruler over a large territorial fiefdom. But trouble brews when Madame Sans-Gene, now elevated to the nobility along with her man -- cannot keep her frank observations under control.
Madame Sans-Gêne
Screenplay
Catherine Hubscher, who washes the shirts of young Napoleon and other soldiers fighting the Revolution, falls in love with Sergeant Lefebvre. Circumstances bring Lefebvre a noble title and even more -- Napoleon decides to make him the local ruler over a large territorial fiefdom. But trouble brews when Madame Sans-Gene, now elevated to the nobility along with her man -- cannot keep her frank observations under control.
Vanina Vanini
Writer
Vanina Vanini, a bored, spoiled Roman countess, falls in love with a dedicated young patriot who is in Rome to assassinate a traitor to the brotherhood of the Carboneria.
Kapò - Uma História do Holocausto
Screenplay
Determined to survive at any price, Edith, a young Jewish woman deported to an extermination camp, manages to survive by accepting the role of kapo, a privileged prisoner whose mission is to ruthlessly guard other prisoners.
Uma Americana na Itália
Co-Writer
A Texas girl wins a trip to Italy where she meets a prince who's afraid to admit that he's flat broke (so is she). They strike up an affair, but things come to a crazy conclusion when he tries to bribe a horse to win a race at the Palio racing grounds.
The Wide Blue Road
Screenplay
Squarciò, a fisherman, lives with his family on a small island off the Dalmatian coast of Italy. Like his fellow villagers, Squarciò struggles against harsh living conditions, a scarcity of fish in nearby waters and exploitation by the local wholesaler. But while the other fishermen continue to use nets, he goes out to the open sea to fish illegally with bombs. But Squarciò borrows money, loses his boat, and in a moment of supreme desperation, has to bomb directly off-shore, causing the hatred and rejection of his fellow fishermen. Trying to save his family, Squarciò and his young sons sail their new boat out beyond the local waters and bomb-fish again. But this time, the sea exacts a terrible toll…
The Wide Blue Road
Novel
Squarciò, a fisherman, lives with his family on a small island off the Dalmatian coast of Italy. Like his fellow villagers, Squarciò struggles against harsh living conditions, a scarcity of fish in nearby waters and exploitation by the local wholesaler. But while the other fishermen continue to use nets, he goes out to the open sea to fish illegally with bombs. But Squarciò borrows money, loses his boat, and in a moment of supreme desperation, has to bomb directly off-shore, causing the hatred and rejection of his fellow fishermen. Trying to save his family, Squarciò and his young sons sail their new boat out beyond the local waters and bomb-fish again. But this time, the sea exacts a terrible toll…
Engaged to Death
Writer
A tale of love, rivalry and passion set in the 50s, in the madcap world of motorcycle speed races, shot on the occasion of the main competitions of that time, such as Monza’s Moto GP and the last edition of the legendary Milano-Taranto race. With also very rare footage of the Moto Guzzi wind tunnel and factories. The film features, alongside popular actors Rik Battaglia and Sylva Koscina, many of the most important champions of those years: Geoffrey Duke, Libero Liberati, Bill Lomas, Enrico Lorenzetti, Reg Armstrong, Stanley Woods, Ken Cavanagh, Dickie Dale, Thomas Campbell, Pierre Monneret, Albino Milani, Walter Zeller, Bruno Francisci, all of them riding amazing Moto Guzzi, Gilera, Mondial and Norton bikes with the so charming and dangerous dustbin fairings that were going to be banned in 1958.
Rosa dos Ventos
Screenplay
Die Windrose, distribuído no Brasil com o nome A Rosa-dos-Ventos (1957), Direção Geral de Alberto Cavalcanti e Joris Ivens. Aportes em criação de Simone Signoret, Yves Montand and Helene Weigel (wife of Bertold Brecht) e Yannick Bellon. Produzido pela DEFA da Alemanha Oriental. São 5 episódios. O brasileiro Ana (1954) dirigido por Alex Viany. O italiano Giovanna (1956), dirigido por Gillo Pontecorvo.
A Mulher Mais Bela do Mundo
Screenplay
Lina, a music hall singer, has fallen in love with Sergei, a Russian prince. Maestro Doria, who gives her voice lessons and who hopes to make her his mistress, takes her to Paris where she becomes the star of the "Folies-Plastiques".
Giovanna
Writer
This short is set in the early 1950s in a small textile factory in central Italy (Prato). Giovanna and her fellow female workers decide to enact a protest against the direction of the factory's dismissal plan, by occupying the factory and continuing to work until the proprietor cancels the dismissals. None of these women can really afford to lose their jobs, as it is the only income in the family. All workers receive moral and material support from their families, apart from Giovanna, who bravely endures her husband's disapproval. Almost all the women hold out for thirty-five days in spite of the proprietor's attempts to break their resistance. At first he blocks the road to the factory, then he cuts off electric power to increase their isolation; finally, he tries to convince them to accept the dismissal of at least a smaller number of them. But the women overcome these obstacles, determined to resist...
Di qua, di là del Piave
Screenplay
Behind Closed Shutters
Screenplay
Sandra searches her missing sister. For this, she enters the morally degraded seaside of Genoa.
Behind Closed Shutters
Story
Sandra searches her missing sister. For this, she enters the morally degraded seaside of Genoa.