Alberto Moravia
- Active years (films on this site)
- 1960–1970
- Schools and movements
- Italian Neorealism and AfterFrench New Wave
Directors worked with
Biography
Alberto Pincherle, known by his pseudonym Alberto Moravia, was an Italian novelist and journalist. His novels explored matters of modern sexuality, social alienation and existentialism. Moravia is best known for his debut novel Gli indifferenti and for the anti-fascist novel Il conformista, the basis for the film The Conformist (1970) directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. Other novels of his adapted for the cinema are Agostino, filmed with the same title by Mauro Bolognini in 1962; Il disprezzo, filmed by Jean-Luc Godard as Le Mépris ; La noia (Boredom), filmed with that title by Damiano Damiani in 1963 and released in the US as The Empty Canvas in 1964 and La ciociara, filmed by Vittorio De Sica as Two Women (1960). Cédric Kahn's L'Ennui (1998) is another version of La noia.
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Awards and honours
National / local
- Strega Prize 1952
- Marzotto Prize 1954
- Viareggio Prize 1961
- Viareggio-Versilia International Prize 1983
3 films on this site
- Two Women 1960 · Vittorio De Sica · IMDb 7.7 · Writer
- Contempt 1963 · Jean-Luc Godard · IMDb 7.4 · Writer
- The Conformist 1970 · Bernardo Bertolucci · IMDb 7.9 · Writer