R.I.P. Tonino Guerra, screenwriter who worked with Fellini, Antonioni, and many others

R.I.P. Tonino Guerra, prolific Italian screenwriter who worked with Fellini, Antonioni, and many others

The screenwriter Tonino Guerra—who scripted some of the most famous works by Italian directors such as Federico Fellini and Michelangelo Antonioni—died yesterday at his home in central Italy, after a long illness. He was 92.

Guerra, who began writing during his time as a World War II concentration camp prisoner, was also a poet, painter, and sculptor. But he was best known for his collaborations with most of the greatest Italian film directors of the twentieth century, many of whom he outlived. After breaking into the business in 1956 by co-writing Man And Wolves with Elio Petri ...