Italian screenwriter Tonino Guerra, best known for his long-standing collaboration with director Michelangelo Antonioni, has died.
Guerra, who scripted more than 100 screenplays, was nominated for three Oscars for his work on Antonioni's Blow Up, Fellini's Amarcord and Casanova 70.
"Tonino... lived through practically a whole century of Italian culture.
"We have lost a poet, a genius and marvellous person," said former culture minister Walter Veltroni.
Born in 1920, Guerra, who was also a poet and a sculptor, began to write during World War II, when he was imprisoned in a concentration camp in Germany.
He went on to co-author some of the defining Italian films of the 1960s and 70s, working with a host of legendary directors including Federico Fellini, Vittorio De Sica and Luchino Visconti.
His prolific career spanned some four decades, and later saw him working with contemporary Italian filmmakers such as the Taviani brothers and Cinema Paradiso's Giuseppe Tornatore.
Tornatore's Stanno Tutti Bene, on which Guerra collaborated, was remade in 2009 as Everybody's Fine - with Robert De Niro and Drew Barrymore.
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