Word: curzio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Strange Deception. An allegorical manhunt with a postwar Italian setting, powerfully filmed by Novelist Curzio (The Skin) Malaparte (TIME, June...
This camera feat is only one of many extraordinary things about an extraordinary movie. Strange Deception is the first film effort of a highly controversial literary figure: 54-year-old Italian Journalist Curzio (Kaputt, The Skin) Malaparte, notorious in recent times for his shifting and often unsavory political alliances with both Fascist and Communist causes. In Strange Deception, Malaparte, who now claims to have renounced all forms of politics, has made a completely unpolitical movie which he describes as "a Christian film." It is neither pro-nor antiFascist, neither pro-nor antiCommunist; instead, with an almost religious fervor, it voices...
...CURZIO MALAPARTE...
...true country," declares Curzio Malaparte in his new book, "is our own skin." By this definition, Signor Malaparte is a redoubtable patriot...
...SKIN (344 pp.)-Curzio Mala-parte-Houghton Mifflin...