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Tullio Pinelli (24 June 1908 – 7 March 2009) was an Italian screenwriter known for his work on the Federico Fellini films I Vitelloni, La Strada, La Dolce Vita and 8½.
Tullio Pinelli was one of Italy's best-known screenwriters and he worked with many of the great directors. He will be best remembered, however, for writing all of Federico Fellini's...
- Early Life and Surviving WWII
- Pinelli and Fellini
- The Golden Age of Fellini
- The End of An Era
As for Tullio Pinelli himself, he was born in Turin in 1908 into a relatively well-to-do family, at least one of whom, his great-uncle Ferdinando Pinelli, had been one of the great heroes of the Italian struggle for unification in the second half of the 19th century. Tullio, however, as he later admitted, was no warrior and instead pursued the simp...
As Italy slowly rebuilt itself after World War Two, Pinelli himself had to wait another six years before finally working with Fellini on a film. That was not one of Fellini’s stone-cold classics, but I Vitelloni (1953), his third film as director. I Vitellonitranslates loosely as “The Bullocks”, or “The Young Cows”, and it was the story of five you...
What followed was one of the great golden ages of any director, in which Fellini made most of the films for which he is still revered today, the majority of which were co-scripted with Pinelli and Flaiano. First, there was Nights of Cabiria(Le notti di Cabiria) (1957), which astonishingly won the second Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film....
Pinelli and Flaiano co-wrote Juliet of the Spirits(Giulietta degli spiriti) (1965) with Fellini, but ultimately it marked the end of their remarkable run together. After the succession of collaborative, co-written films made over nearly a decade, Fellini, consciously or otherwise, set off in a very different artistic direction. His primary focus wa...
La strada (The Road) is a 1954 Italian drama film directed by Federico Fellini and co-written by Fellini, Tullio Pinelli and Ennio Flaiano. The film tells the story of Gelsomina, a simple-minded young woman ( Giulietta Masina ) bought from her mother by Zampanò ( Anthony Quinn ), a brutish strongman who takes her with him on the road.
Best known for his association with Italian auteur Federico Fellini, Pinelli co-wrote La Strada (1954) and La Dolce Vita (1960) with the director. They also collaborated on Il Miracolo (1948), I Vitelloni (1953) and The Nights of Cabiria (1957) and - after a long hiatus - reunited on Ginger And Fred (1986).
Mar 8, 2009 · ROME — Italian screen and stage scribe Tullio Pinelli, the longtime Federico Fellini collaborator best known for co-penning Fellini’s “La Dolce Vita,” and “8 1/2,” died March 7 in Rome. He...
Set in the director’s hometown of Rimini, I Vitelloni follows the lives of five young vitelloni, or layabouts, who while away their listless days in their small seaside village. Fausto, the leader of the pack, marries his sweetheart, but finds himself constantly distracted by other women.
