La califfa (Alberto Bevilacqua, 1970).srt

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 the Journal 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 break-through novel. The protagonist, Irene Corsini, imbued with his own sweet and energetic temperament, is one of the strongest female characters in Italian literature. His novel This Kind of Love won the Campiello Prize in 1966. In both This Kind of Love and Caliph, Bevilacqua oversaw the adaptations and productions of the film versions. This Kind of Love won Best Film at Cannes.

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 likes to call them, are included in the Novels volume of the prestigious series "I Meridiani.”

Bevilacqua directed seven films between 1970 and 1999. His 1970 film La califfa was entered into the 1971 Cannes Film Festival.

Bevilacqua, aged 79, died in Rome on 9 September 2013 from cardiac arrest. He had been hospitalized since 11 October 2012 for heart failure. wiki

Escritor, poeta, reportero, director de cine y crítico de televisión, Alberto Bevilacqua (Oltretorrente, Parma 1934) es toda una personalidad en el ámbito cultural italiano. Él cuenta que a los seis años de edad vivía en una casa lo más parecido a un cuartel de mujeres. Era época de guerra, y todos los hombres de la familia habían escapado, perseguidos por el fascismo. Se sentía solitario, y su único consuelo era observar aquella comunidad de féminas: sus pequeños dramas, sus amores perdidos, su inmensa soledad, pero sobretodo el no perder su manera de vestirse, de peinarse, de mantenerse bellas. En sus novelas Bevilacqua suele retratar el complejo universo femenino.

A sus veinte años comenzó a trabajar en un diario de su ciudad natal, “La Gazeta”, encargándose de la sección literaria. Dos años después se trasladó a Roma colaborando en “Il Messagero” y en “Corriere della Sera” donde permaneció por muchos años.
Su oportunidad se da cuando el escritor Leonardo Sciascia hace una mención elogiando el libro de cuentos “La Polvore sull’Erba” de Bevilacqua. El encuentro con Sciascia fue definitivo en el futuro de Alberto. manigna

Director (8 credits)
1999 Gialloparma
1987 Tango blu
1985 La donna delle meraviglie
1981 Bosco d'amore
1981 Le rose di Danzica (TV Mini-Series) (3 episodes)
1975 Attenti al buffone
1972 Questa specie d'amore
1970 La califfa
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