Writing

Franco Brusati

Born August 4, 1922 · Milano, Lombardia, Italia

Died February 28, 1993 · aged 70

Franco Brusati (4 August 1922 in Milan – 28 February 1993 in Rome) was an Italian screenwriter and director. He directed the internationally commended film hit Bread and Chocolate, one of the finest examples of Commedia all'italiana films in the 1970s. In 1979, his film To Forget Venice was nominated for an Academy Award for Best International Feature Film at the 52nd Academy Awards. In Italy, t…

Known For

Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet · 1968

Romeo and Juliet

MovieDramaRomance

Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet fall in love against the wishes of their feuding families. Driven by their passion, the young lovers defy their destiny and elope, only to suffer the ultimate tragedy.

Ulysses

Ulysses · 1954

MovieAdventureFantasy

A retelling of Homer's The Odyssey, focusing on Ulysses's ten-year journey home to Ithaca following the Trojan War, where he faces various mythical challenges while his wife Penelope fends off suitors.

To Forget Venice

To Forget Venice · 1979

To Forget Venice

Nicky and Anna, brother and sister, reunite in their childhood home in the Venetian countryside. Accompanied by Anna's lover, Claudia, and Nicky's partner, Picchio, they plan to spend a Sunday together when fate intervenes.

Bread and Chocolate

Bread and Chocolate · 1974

Bread and Chocolate

MovieComedyDrama

An Italian immigrant tries to make a new life in Switzerland, taking on a series of increasingly menial jobs in order to do it. He attempts to fit into his new home and society but fails at every turn. Unable to go home again, will his tenacity and optimism be enough to live on?

The Unfaithfuls

The Unfaithfuls · 1953

The Unfaithfuls

MovieComedyDrama

A group of "respectable" people are all partly responsible for the suicide of a servant girl. They are pounced upon by a wily blackmailer, who knows that these people will pay dearly rather than inform on themselves or others.

Smog

An ambitious Italian attorney has his flight delayed in Los Angeles. The vapid lawyer goes to some parties with some Italians living there and has a brief affair with a beautiful Italian expatriate.

100 Years of Love

100 Years of Love · 1954

100 Years of Love

MovieComedyDrama

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.

The Girl Who Couldn't Say No

The Girl Who Couldn't Say No · 1968

The Girl Who Couldn't Say No

Childhood friends Franco and Jolanda accidentally meet again after 15 years and both know it is love. This comedy traces their troubled relationship.

Filmography

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Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet · 1968

Romeo and Juliet

MovieDramaRomance

Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet fall in love against the wishes of their feuding families. Driven by their passion, the young lovers defy their destiny and elope, only to suffer the ultimate tragedy.

Screenplay

Ulysses

Ulysses · 1954

MovieAdventureFantasy

A retelling of Homer's The Odyssey, focusing on Ulysses's ten-year journey home to Ithaca following the Trojan War, where he faces various mythical challenges while his wife Penelope fends off suitors.

Screenplay

To Forget Venice

To Forget Venice · 1979

To Forget Venice

Nicky and Anna, brother and sister, reunite in their childhood home in the Venetian countryside. Accompanied by Anna's lover, Claudia, and Nicky's partner, Picchio, they plan to spend a Sunday together when fate intervenes.

Director

Bread and Chocolate

Bread and Chocolate · 1974

Bread and Chocolate

MovieComedyDrama

An Italian immigrant tries to make a new life in Switzerland, taking on a series of increasingly menial jobs in order to do it. He attempts to fit into his new home and society but fails at every turn. Unable to go home again, will his tenacity and optimism be enough to live on?

Director

The Unfaithfuls

The Unfaithfuls · 1953

The Unfaithfuls

MovieComedyDrama

A group of "respectable" people are all partly responsible for the suicide of a servant girl. They are pounced upon by a wily blackmailer, who knows that these people will pay dearly rather than inform on themselves or others.

Screenplay

Smog

An ambitious Italian attorney has his flight delayed in Los Angeles. The vapid lawyer goes to some parties with some Italians living there and has a brief affair with a beautiful Italian expatriate.

Screenplay

100 Years of Love

100 Years of Love · 1954

100 Years of Love

MovieComedyDrama

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.

Screenplay

The Girl Who Couldn't Say No

The Girl Who Couldn't Say No · 1968

The Girl Who Couldn't Say No

Childhood friends Franco and Jolanda accidentally meet again after 15 years and both know it is love. This comedy traces their troubled relationship.

Director

Black Jesus

Black Jesus · 1968

A thinly-disguised biography of African leader Patrice Lumumba, here called Lalubi. Lalubi, a Christ-like leader determined to save his people, by passive resistance, from the dictatorial regime propped up by European colonialists, is imprisoned and tortured, along with a thief who comes to a greater understanding through his contact with Lalubi.

Screenplay

Il padrone sono me

Il padrone sono me · 1955

Il padrone sono me

In Romagna, an Italian district, at the beginning of the twentieth century, the owners of an estate are the professor Edoardo, always lost in reveries, and his wife Maria. They have a son, Robertino, who has a friend: Zvanin. Zvanin is the son of Mingòn and Marianna, two peasants. Dolly is an american cousin and every summer she comes in Romagna. The movie narrates their stories over the years until the post I World War period.

Director

Human Torpedoes

Human Torpedoes · 1954

Human Torpedoes

A team of highly trained Italian seamen are taken to the island of Stampalia where there are to take their torpedo-laden attack craft on a daring attack on the port of Suda.

Screenplay

The Three Faces

The Three Faces · 1965

The Three Faces

MovieDramaRomance

Italian comedy film made of three segments directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, Mauro Bolognini and Franco Indovina. First segment: Il Provino; second segment: Gli amanti celebri; third segment: Latin Lover.

Writer

Violent Life

Violent Life · 1962

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.

Story

The Machine That Kills Bad People

The Machine That Kills Bad People · 1952

The Machine That Kills Bad People

MovieComedyFantasy

In Amalfi, a village on the Italian coast, an old man who seems to have strange powers gives Celestino Esposito, the local photographer, a dangerous ability.

Screenplay

Anna

MovieDramaRomance

The life story of a nun who started out as a bar singer, then took the veil because she couldn't choose between two men, and now devotes herself to nursing.

Story

The Accusation

The Accusation · 1950

MovieCrimeDrama

A luckless young teacher it's suspected of committing two murders. When his lover begins to have doubt about his innocence, he seems to be doomed.

Screenplay

Il romanzo della mia vita

Il romanzo della mia vita · 1952

Il romanzo della mia vita

MovieComedyDrama

Screenplay

Sunday in August

Sunday in August · 1950

Sunday in August

MovieComedyDrama

The plot weaves several episodes with several groups of people, Roman families, youth gangs and young love couples, who spend a Sunday at the beach of Ostia.

Screenplay

Tulips of Haarlem

Tulips of Haarlem · 1970

Tulips of Haarlem

Two teenagers looking for love find each other in this tragic and cruel story of romance, co-dependence and psychological torment. Pierre (Frank Grimes) is the French boy who saves the British girl Sarah (Carole Andre) from suicide. Despondent over a broken affair, Sarah soon becomes fond of Pierre and agrees to stay with him. The twisted girl puts him through a series of humiliations before she intentionally blinds him so he will never leave her.

Director

The Age of Indiscretion

The Age of Indiscretion · 1953

The Age of Indiscretion

In a small provincial Italian town, a fifteen-year-old boy meets and falls in love with a girl.

Screenplay

Wife for a Night

Wife for a Night · 1952

Wife for a Night

MovieComedyRomance

A poor musician hires a courtesan to pose as his wife so he can "give" her to a wealthy count in return for patronage.

Screenplay

Outlaw Girl

Outlaw Girl · 1950

Beppe Musolino is falsely accused of murder. He is tried and once found guilty is imprisoned. Unexpectedly he escape from prison and to survive he start living like an outlaw brigand. He falls in love for Mara, a village girl, and with her help he hunts down all of the witnesses who lied about him at the trial.

Screenplay

Disorder

Disorder · 1962

Study of 1960s Milanese social life and its glamorous depravity, as seen through the story of the working class Mario who dreams of social climbing.

Screenplay

Under the Sun of Rome

Under the Sun of Rome · 1948

Under the Sun of Rome

MovieComedyDrama

A lovely, incisive portrait of adolescents in the crowded San Giovanni quarter of Rome during the last years of WWII.

Second Assistant Director