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A tribute to the life and achievements of one of the premier Italian filmmakers of the post-war period.

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Violent SummerThe Desert Of The Tartars
(Country: France, Italy, IMDb France section; Director: Valerio Zurlini; Writer: Mario Missiroli, Vasco Pratolini, Vasco Pratolini, Valerio Zurlini; Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Jacques Perrin, Sylvie, Salvo Randone, Valeria Ciangottini, Serena Vergano, Marco Guglielmi, Franca Pasut, Miranda Campa, Marcella Valeri, Orson Welles)
Estranged brothers unite and start to live

(Country: Italy, France, West Germany; Director: Valerio Zurlini; Writer: Jean-Louis Bertucelli, Jean-Louis Bertucelli, André G. Brunelin, Dino Buzzati, Valerio Zurlini; Cast: Jaques Perrin, Philippe Noiret, Max Von Sydow, Giuliano Gemma)
A garrison of soldiers await the attack of an unseen enemy.

(Country: Italy; Director: Valerio Zurlini; Writer: Leonardo Benvenuti, Piero De Bernardi; Cast: Antonio Cifariello, Rosana Podesta, Corinne Calvet, Giovanna Ralli)
Bittersweet comedy about a working-class area of Florence.

(Country: Italy, France; Director: Valerio Zurlini; Writer: Leonardo Benvenuti, Piero De Bernardi, Enrico Medioli, Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, Valerio Zurlini; Cast: Claudia Cardinale, Jacques Perrin, Luciana Angiolillo, Renato Baldini, Riccardo Garrone, Elsa Albani, Corrado Pani, Gian Maria Volontè, Romolo Valli, Enzo Garinei, Ciccio Barbi)
A gold-digger nightclub singer leaves her job and moves to the city to pursue a wealthy man.

(Country: Italy, France; Director: Valerio Zurlini; Writer: Enrico Medioli, Valerio Zurlini; Cast: Alain Delon, Sonia Petrovna, Lea Massari, Giancarlo Giannini, Renato Salvatori, Alida Valli, Patrizia Adiutori, Olga Bisera, Liana Del Balzo, Adalberto Maria Merli, Sandro Moretti)
A teacher embarks on an ill-advised affair with one of his students.

(Country: Italy; Director: Valerio Zurlini; Writer: Franco Brusati, Valerio Zurlini; Cast: Woody Strode, Jean Servais, Franco Citti, Pier Paolo Capponi, Stephen Forsyth, Luciano Catenacci, Salvatore Basile, Silvio Fiore, Giuseppe Transocchi, Mirella Pamphili, Renzo Rossi)
Fiercely political film about a captured Congo rebel leader.

(Country: France, Italy, West Germany, Yugoslavia; Director: Valerio Zurlini; Cast: Mario Adorf, Tomas Milian, Anna Karina, Marie Laforet, Lea Massari, Valeria Moriconi)
Ensemble post-war drama about a dangerous journey through the mountains on an army truck

(Country: Italy; Director: Valerio Zurlini; Writer: Suso Cecchi d'Amico, Giorgio Prosperi, Valerio Zurlini; Cast: Eleonora Rossi Drago, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jacqueline Sassard, Cathia Caro, Lilla Brignone, Raf Mattioli, Enrico Maria Salerno, Federica Ranchi)
Set in the summer of Mussolini’s demise, a tempestuous love affair ensues between the widowed wife of a naval hero and a younger dodge drafting dandy.


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