Brunello Rondi

Brunello Rondi (26 November 1924 – 7 November 1989) was an Italian screenwriter and film director, best known for his frequent script collaborations with Federico Fellini.

His brother, Gian Luigi Rondi, was an Italian film critic.

Biography[edit]

Noted chiefly as a script-writer and script consultant, Rondi began his film career with the script for 1947's Last Love for which he was also assistant director.^[1]

He worked as assistant director as well as an uncredited writer on The Flowers of St. Francis (1950) by Roberto Rossellini and was a credited writer on Rossellini's Europa '51 (1952).^[1]

He started to work with Federico Fellini as artistic director on La Strada (1954) and Nights of Cabiria (1957).^[1] His most prized collaborations were on the film scripts of La Dolce Vita (1960), 8½ (1963), Juliet of the Spirits (1964), Orchestra Rehearsal (1978), and City of Women (1980), all co-written and directed by Fellini.

On the writing of La Dolce Vita, Rondi helped build up the character of Steiner, the intellectual who kills his wife and children.^[2] As a Fellini intimate, Rondi also played a crucial role in the early stages of 8½. In a letter dated October 1960, Fellini outlined his initial ideas to Rondi that were later developed into the screenplay with co-writers Ennio Flaiano and Tullio Pinelli.^[3]

He made his directorial debut with Violent Life in 1961 based on the novel by Pier Paolo Pasolini.^[1]

He died of a heart attack in Rome in 1989. He was 64 years old.^[1]

Filmography[edit]

Director and scriptwriter[edit]

• Violent Life, co-directed with Paolo Heusch (1961)
• Il demonio (1963)
• Domani non siamo più qui (1967)
• Run, Psycho, Run (1968)
• Le tue mani sul mio corpo (1970)
• Valeria dentro e fuori (1972)
• Racconti proibiti... di niente vestiti (1972)
• Ingrid sulla strada (1973)
• Tecnica di un amore (1973)
• Prigione di donne (1974)
• Smooth Velvet, Raw Silk (1976)
• I prosseneti (1976)
• La vocazione di Suor Teresa (1982)

Screenplays[edit]

• Last Love, directed by Luigi Chiarini (1947)
• The Flowers of St. Francis - uncredited, directed by Roberto Rossellini (1950)
• Altri tempi, directed by Alessandro Blasetti (1952)
• Europa '51, directed by Roberto Rossellini (1952)
• Era notte a Roma, directed by Roberto Rossellini (1960)
• La Dolce Vita, directed by Federico Fellini (1960)
• Boccaccio 70, episode The Temptation of Doctor Antonio, directed by Federico Fellini (1962)
• 8½, directed by Federico Fellini (1963)
• Juliet of the Spirits, directed by Federico Fellini (1965)
• Amanti, directed by Vittorio De Sica (1968)
• Scacco alla regina, directed by Pasquale Festa Campanile (1969)
• Fellini Satyricon, directed by Federico Fellini (1969)
• Le sorelle, directed by Roberto Malenotti (1969)
• Orchestra Rehearsal, directed by Federico Fellini (1978)
• City of Women, directed by Federico Fellini (1980)

Director[edit]

• Tecnica di un amore (1973)

Assistant director[edit]

• Last Love, directed by Luigi Chiarini (1947)
• Francesco, giullare di Dio - directed by Roberto Rossellini (1950)
• L'ultimo amante, directed by Mario Mattoli (1955)

Actor[edit]

• Le ore dell'amore, directed by Luciano Salce (1963)
• Colpo di stato, directed by Luciano Salce (1969)

Notes[edit]

References[edit]

• Alpert, Hollis (1988). Fellini: A Life. New York: Paragon House. ISBN 1-55778-000-5
• Bondanella, Peter (1992). The Cinema of Federico Fellini. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-00875-2
• Parigi, Stefania e Alberto Pezzotta (2010). Il lungo respiro di Brunello Rondi (prefazione di Gian Luigi Rondi). Roma: Edizioni Sabinae.

Bibliography[edit]

• Alberto Pezzotta, Stefania Parigi, Il lungo respiro di Brunello Rondi, Sabinae editions, 2010

External links[edit]

• Brunello Rondi at IMDb