Alba De Céspedes

Alba De Céspedes

Рождение : 1911-03-11, Rome, Italy

Смерть : 1997-11-14

История

Alba de Céspedes y Bertini (1911–1997) was a Cuban-Italian writer. She was the daughter of Carlos Manuel de Céspedes y Quesada (a Cuban ambassador to Italy) and his Italian wife, Laura Bertini y Alessandri. De Céspedes worked as a journalist in the 1930s for Piccolo, Epoca, and La Stampa. In 1935, she wrote her first novel, L’Anima Degli Altri. Her fiction writing was greatly influenced by the cultural developments that lead to and resulted from World War II. In her writing, she instills her female characters with subjectivity. In 1935, she was jailed for her anti-fascist activities in Italy. Two of her novels, Nessuno Torna Indietro (1938) and La Fuga (1940), were banned. In 1943, she was again imprisoned for her assistance with Radio Partigiana in Bari where she was a Resistance radio personality known as Clorinda. From June 1952 to the late 1958 she wrote an agony column, called Dalla parte di lei, in the magazine Epoca. She wrote the screenplay for Michelangelo Antonioni's 1955 film Le Amiche. Although her books were bestsellers, De Céspedes remains overlooked in recent studies of Italian women writers.

Профиль

Alba De Céspedes

Фильмы

Baby Doll
Novel
A bachelor attorney with a roving eye for beautiful women stets his sights on a Young student for his next amorous conquest.
Questo mondo proibito
Writer
The film in its first part intends to show the alienation of modern man by advertising, then talks to us about the image of women in advertising, society, entertainment, fashion, dreams, fantasies. Its last part is composed of saucy fake scopitones .
Подруги
Screenplay
В Турин из Рима для открытия нового ателье мод приезжает Клелия, молодая деловая женщина. В первую же ночь ее соседка по гостиничному номеру Розетта пытается покончить жизнь самоубийством. Когда беднягу отвозят в больницу, ее подруга Мамина столь активно берется за расследование, что втягивает в него и Клелию. Так сошлись пути будущих трех подруг…
100 Years of Love
Screenplay
Six episodes (adapted from as many short stories: Gozzano, D'Annunzio, Guido Rocca, Marino Moretti, Alba de Céspedes and Oreste Biancoli), six love stories set in different moments in italian recent history.
Lettere al sottotenente
Screenplay
No One Comes Back
Screenplay
A host of college girls take different life paths in the Italy of the 1930s.
I, His Father
Novel
An ex-boxer has trained his own son and leads him on to win the middle-weight championship of Italy. But the boy falls easy prey to a woman of light morals and renounces the hard work of sport to follow her to a winter luxury resort and at a certain moment, offers to marry her but she, not wanting to give up an advantageous connection, turns him down, advising the youth to not change the nature of their relationship. Then, the boy feeling the entire baseness of his situation, returns home to his parents who welcome him back with joy and takes up again a commitment to sport.