Biography
Tullio Kezich (17 September 1928 in Trieste – 17 August 2009 in Rome) was an Italian screenwriter and playwright, best known as the film critic for Corriere della Sera and for his award-winning biography of Italian director Federico Fellini. Kezich's experience as a film critic began in 1941 as an adolescent reader for the Italian magazines Cinema and Movies. He started reviewing professionally for Radio Trieste in 1946. In the early 1950s, he became a film critic with the Venice Film Festival, a collaboration that would last for over 60 years, and with the cinema magazine Sipario for which he later became editorial director between 1971-1974.
In 1982, he was a member of the jury at the 34th Berlin International Film Festival.During his long career as a film critic, he collaborated with Settimana Incom and the weekly magazine Panorama, as well as the newspapers La Repubblica and Corriere della Sera. His film reviews for Panorama and Corriere della Sera were published in several volumes.
The author of numerous books on cinema, Kezich was also an actor and a playwright whose work is still widely performed throughout Europe.
Kezich died in Rome after a long illness, a month before his 81st year.
Filmography
all 25
Movies 25
self 14
Writer 8
Producer 1
Francesco Nuti… e vengo da lontano (2010)
Vittorio D. (2009)
Il falso bugiardo (2008)
Sophia: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow (2007)
A Beautiful Vacation (2006)
Fellini's Homecoming (2006)
Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds (2006)
Vitellonismo (2004)
Marxist Poetry: The Making of The Battle of Algiers (2004)
The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth (2004)
The Last Sequence (2003)
Federico Fellini's Mysterious Journey (2003)
The Magic of Fellini (2002)
That's Life: Vittorio De Sica (2001)
The Legend of the Holy Drinker (1988)
Zeno's Conscience (1988)
Don Chisciotte (1984)
The Scavengers (1972)
Come Have Coffee with Us (1970)
Il caso Fuchs (1966)
The Terrorist (1963)
Un metro lungo cinque (1961)
Il Posto (1961)
The White Line (1950)
Un controtipo - appunti su Gillo Pontecorvo
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1928-09-17
Deathday2009-08-17 (80 years old)
Birth PlaceTrieste, Italy
SpouseLalla Kezich
ChildrenGiovanni Kezich
CitizenshipsKingdom of Italy, Italy
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