Alberto Bevilacqua

Alberto Bevilacqua
Bevilacqua in 1984
Born	(1934-06-27)27 June 1934 Parma,Italy
Died	9 September 2013(2013-09-09)(aged 79) Rome,Italy
Occupation(s)	Film director, screenwriter
Years active	1970–1999

Alberto Bevilacqua(27 June 1934 – 9 September 2013)was an Italian writer and filmmaker.Leonardo Sciascia,an Italian writer and politician, read Bevilacqua's first collection of stories,The Dust on the Grass(1955), was impressed and published it. Mario Colombi Guidotti, responsible for the literary supplement of theJournal of Parma,began to publish his stories in the early 1950s.

Friendship Lost,his first book of poems, was published in 1961.Caliph,published in 1964, was his breakthrough novel. Theprotagonist,Irene Corsini, imbued with his own sweet and energetic temperament, is one of the strongest female characters in Italian literature. His novelThis Kind of Lovewon the Campiello Prize in 1966. In bothThis Kind of LoveandCaliph,Bevilacqua oversaw the adaptations and productions of the film versions.This Kind of Lovewon Best Film atCannes.

Bevilacqua was also a poet. His writings have been translated throughout Europe, the United States, Brazil, China and Japan. In 2010, his seven "stories" as he liked to call them, were included in the Novels volume of the prestigious series "I Meridiani.”

Bevilacqua directed seven films between 1970 and 1999. His 1970 filmLa califfawas entered into the1971 Cannes Film Festival.

Bevilacqua, aged 79, died inRomeon 9 September 2013 fromcardiac arrest.He had been hospitalized since 11 October 2012 for heart failure.

Selected filmography

• Atom Age Vampire(1960)
• La califfa(1970)
• Questa specie d'amore(1971)
• Attenti al buffone(1976)
• Le rose di Danzica(1979)
• Bosco d'amore(1981)
• La donna delle meraviglie(1985)

Honour

• Italy:Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (22 november 2010)

External links

• Alberto BevilacquaatIMDb