Brunello Rondi
Brunello Rondi (26 November 1924 – 7 November 1989) was a prolific Italian screen writer and film director best known for his frequent script collaborations with Federico Fellini.
His brother, Gian Luigi Rondi, was an Italian film critic.
Biography[]
Noted chiefly as a script-writer and script consultant, Rondi began his film career with the script for 1947's Last Love for which he was also assistant director.[1]
He worked as assistant director as well as an uncredited writer on The Flowers of St. Francis (1950) by Roberto Rossellini and was a credited writer on Rossellini's Europa '51 (1952).[1]
He started to work with Federico Fellini as artistic director on La Strada (1954) and Nights of Cabiria (1957).[1] His most prized collaborations were on the film scripts of La Dolce Vita (1960), 8½ (1963), Juliet of the Spirits (1964), Orchestra Rehearsal (1978), and City of Women (1980), all co-written and directed by Fellini.
On the writing of La Dolce Vita, Rondi helped build up the character of Steiner, the intellectual who kills his wife and children.[2] As a Fellini intimate, Rondi also played a crucial role in the early stages of 8½. In a letter dated October 1960, Fellini outlined his initial ideas to Rondi that were later developed into the screenplay with co-writers Ennio Flaiano and Tullio Pinelli.[3]
He made his directorial debut with Violent Life in 1961 based on the novel by Pier Paolo Pasolini.[1]
He died of a heart attack in Rome in 1989. He was 64 years old.[1]
Filmography[]
Director and scriptwriter[]
- Violent Life, co-directed with Paolo Heusch (1961)
- Il demonio (1963)
- Domani non siamo più qui (1967)
- Run, Psycho, Run (1968)
- Le tue mani sul mio corpo (1970)
- Valeria dentro e fuori (1972)
- Racconti proibiti... di niente vestiti (1972)
- Ingrid sulla strada (1973)
- Tecnica di un amore (1973)
- Prigione di donne (1974)
- Smooth Velvet, Raw Silk (1976)
- I prosseneti (1976)
- La vocazione di Suor Teresa (1982)
Screenplays[]
- Last Love, directed by Luigi Chiarini (1947)
- The Flowers of St. Francis - uncredited, directed by Roberto Rossellini (1950)
- Altri tempi, directed by Alessandro Blasetti (1952)
- Europa '51, directed by Roberto Rossellini (1952)
- Era notte a Roma, directed by Roberto Rossellini (1960)
- La Dolce Vita, directed by Federico Fellini (1960)
- Boccaccio 70, episode The Temptation of Doctor Antonio, directed by Federico Fellini (1962)
- 8½, directed by Federico Fellini (1963)
- Juliet of the Spirits, directed by Federico Fellini (1965)
- Amanti, directed by Vittorio De Sica (1968)
- Scacco alla regina, directed by Pasquale Festa Campanile (1969)
- Fellini Satyricon, directed by Federico Fellini (1969)
- , directed by Roberto Malenotti (1969)
- Orchestra Rehearsal, directed by Federico Fellini (1978)
- City of Women, directed by Federico Fellini (1980)
Director[]
- Tecnica di un amore (1973)
Assistant director[]
- Last Love, directed by Luigi Chiarini (1947)
- Francesco, giullare di Dio - directed by Roberto Rossellini (1950)
- L'ultimo amante, directed by Mario Mattoli (1955)
Actor[]
- Le ore dell'amore, directed by Luciano Salce (1963)
- , directed by Luciano Salce (1969)
Notes[]
References[]
- Alpert, Hollis (1988). Fellini: A Life. New York: Paragon House. ISBN 1-55778-000-5
- Bondanella, Peter (1992). The Cinema of Federico Fellini. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-00875-2
- Parigi, Stefania e Alberto Pezzotta (2010). Il lungo respiro di Brunello Rondi (prefazione di Gian Luigi Rondi). Roma: Edizioni Sabinae.
Bibliography[]
- Alberto Pezzotta, Stefania Parigi, Il lungo respiro di Brunello Rondi, Sabinae editions, 2010
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- 1924 births
- 1989 deaths
- 20th-century Italian screenwriters
- Italian male screenwriters
- Italian film directors
- Italian male film actors
- People from the Province of Sondrio
- Male actors from Rome
- 20th-century Italian male actors
- 20th-century Italian male writers