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Valerio Zurlini was born on March 19, 1926. During his law studies in Rome, he started working in the theatre. In 1943, he joined the Italian resistance. Zurlini became a member of the Italian Communist Party. He filmed short documentaries in the immediate post-war period and in 1954 directed his first feature film, Le ragazze di San Frediano (1955), his only comedy. In 1958, together with Leonardo Benvenuti, Piero De Bernardi and Alberto Lattuada, he won the Silver Ribbon for Best Script for Lattuada's Guendalina (1957). Zurlini made his name as a director with his second feature film, Violent Summer (1959), starring Eleonora Rossi Drago and Jean-Louis Trintignant.
In 1961 Zurlini filmed Girl with a Suitcase (1961), a successful drama, starring Claudia Cardinale and Jacques Perrin, who would become Zurlini's favorite actor. In 1962 Zurlini's film Family Diary (1962) earned him the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival (it tied with Andrei Tarkovsky's Ivan's Childhood (1962)). Zurlini had a masterful skill for screen adaptations Both Le ragazze di San Frediano (1955) and Family Diary (1962) were based on Vasco Pratolini's work. Zurlini admired the work of Italian novelist Giorgio Bassani and hoped to adapt his novel "The Garden of the Finzi-Continis," which was subsequently directed by Vittorio De Sica (see The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970)). His 1965 film The Camp Followers (1965) was entered into the 4th Moscow International Film Festival where it won the Special Silver Prize. Zurlini's last film, The Desert of the Tartars (1976), produced by Jacques Perrin and featuring an all-star ensemble, was based on Dino Buzzati's novel of the same name. The movie won both the David di Donatello for Best Director and the Silver Ribbon for Best Director.
The visual style of Zurlini's adaptations was informed by artists Giorgio De Chirico, Giorgio Morandi and Ottone Rosai. During the last years of his life, Zurlini taught at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome and worked as a dubbing director for the Italian versions for such movies as The Deer Hunter (1978) and My American Uncle (1980). He died of stomach hemorrhage in Verona on October 27, 1982.- Sybil Leek was born on 22 February 1917 in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, UK. She was married to Brian Leek. She died on 26 October 1982 in Melbourne, Florida, USA.
- Actor
- Composer
- Producer
Katsuhiko Haida was born on 20 August 1911 in Japan. He was an actor and composer, known for Shinsetsu (1942), Mune yori mune ni (1955) and Kimi to yuku America kôro (1950). He died on 26 October 1982 in Tokyo, Japan.- Komatsu Midori was born in Tokyo in 1891. From the age of five she studied at the Bando dance school and in 1911 joined a female theater which had just been formed, the Nakasu Masagoza. In 1912 at the age of 21 she made her stage debut. In 1913 upon the invitation of Shochiku Gomei, she participated in the female theater group the Kyoto City Second Kyogoku Taishoza where she continued her activities until 1915, when she chose to take the path leading towards action pictures. In 1919 she negotiated with Kunikatsu films and the following year joined the company. She was aiming to be a real movie star. At Kunikatsu she appeared in Shoshurei, Minashi Go and Chishio no Naruto. After the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 she joined Shochiku Shimogamo. She concentrated mainly on period dramas such as Nichiren Komachi, Yoshii Masayuki and Kane no Naruhi (The Day the Bell Tolls). In 1925 she transferred to Nikkatsu Daishogun Studios and appeared in Nakayama Yasubei, and Rakka no Mai. From this time onward she came to be in demand for elderly roles and the roles of mothers. From the 1930s she built up a portfolio of supporting roles, and then taking a professional name in the Wakayagi school of dancing, she took on the responsibility of choreography for the Nikkatsu Period Drama Theater. In 1942 she transferred to Daiei. She then concentrated mainly on period dramas until her retirement in 1964. She died in 1982 at the age of 91.
- Actress
- Director
Joan Swinstead was born on 31 May 1903 in Thame, Oxfordshire, England, UK. She was an actress and director, known for The Final Test (1953), The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) and Adam and Evalyn (1949). She was married to Robert Edward Otter. She died on 26 October 1982 in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, England, UK.- Pavel Kiyansky was born on 12 July 1898 in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire. He was an actor, known for Tainstvennyy ostrov (1941), Gadyuka (1965) and Posledniy port (1935). He died on 26 October 1982 in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, USSR.
- Actress
She graduated from a girls' high school in Stockholm, singing studies in Stockholm, Berlin and St. Petersburg. She sang the main roles in operettas by I. Kálmán, F. Lehár, R. Stolz, J. Offenbach and J. Strauss. She came to Poland in 1922 for two-week guest appearances and stayed here for 22 years. She performed on operetta, theater and cabarets stages, as well as in films, e.g. in the Polish silent film "Rivals". She played the main role in the first Polish musical comedy "Yacht Milosci", which premiered on October 21, 1933 on the stage of the 8.30 Theater in Warsaw.
After the outbreak of World War II, she remained in Poland. In occupied Warsaw, she ran the "U Elny Gistedt" cafe, located in the Branicki Palace at Nowy Swiat Street 18. She performed there, singing arias from various operettas. Jan Kreczmar and Lucyna Messal also gave concerts there. It also employed Jews, thus protecting them from deportations. The place was used by the Polish underground - meetings were attended by, among others, Kazimierz Moczarski and Swedish emissaries. She went to the Gestapo to plead for her stage colleagues. Disguised as a Jewess, she smuggled food and letters into the ghetto.
In the fall of 1942, she rescued Polish children from the village of Sobieszów in the Zamosc region. She bought 34 sick children, brought them to Warsaw and gave them to foster families after being cured. After the fall of the Warsaw Uprising, she found herself in a transit camp in Pruszków. After her husband's death (due to exhaustion in a transit camp) in 1944, she returned to Sweden. She publicized German crimes in the local press. She came to Poland several times, including as a representative of Swedish aid organizations. In 1949, the communist authorities expelled her from Poland. The last time she visited Poland was in 1979. From 1950 she performed in Gustav Werner's Swedish operetta group, in 1952 she stayed in London and Paris, and sang songs in the Polish Club.