Franco Brusati - Archive

A letter from Pier Paolo Pasolini

1959

Franco Brusati,
Via San Filippo Martire, 51
Rome, 6 Oct 1959

Dear Franco,
following our agreement, it results as follows:
I hereby grant you the reduction rights pertaining to my novel "Una vita violenta" (A violent life) amounting 1,500,000 liras, here follow the relevant conditions:
I) The film direction is only yours.
II) Were you to review the following rights to a higher amount, you are supposed to be owing me the difference.
III) I will take part in the screenwriting, which will amount to no less than 2,000,000 liras.
IV) Were you not to undersign the agreements concerning the production of the film within three months of the below signature, you will owe me back the amount of money deriving from the hereby rights of reduction, so that I will become the only owner, only after I will have given money back to you. I would be very grateful to you if you could send me a copy of the hereby document to show you have accepted.

Yours sincerely,
Pier Paolo Pasolini

Sandro Pertini at the theatre

Sandro Pertini at the opening night of The Woman in Bed in 1984

The Girl Who Couldnt Say No auditions

Photo auditions for The Girl Who Couldn't Say No

A letter from Sophia Loren

1964

Rome 1964

Dear Mr Brusati,
what a shame you doubted so long about my promptness in thanking friends. You had better sieve through all the addresses you may scatter and you will find some old letter. You may be taken by surprise after the facts and you will enjoy it much more. Thank you anyway.

Best Regards,
Sophia

A letter from Ennio Flaiano

1970

August 19th
Dear Mr Brusati,
we went through the North Sea once. We have known each other for ages and we have always been friends. And yet I am not used to people working miracles. Your visit (which still should not have taken me by surprise) came as a surprise, sudden and discreet, it came out of the blue! And you must be assured: I really enjoyed reading your wonderful book about Victorian painters!
I thank you warmly and I hope your Tulips of Haarlem will be a great success.
I look forward to seeing you soon, as soon as I leave this clinic.

I hug you warmly. I have a feeling we are going to meet again at the wedding at Cana.

Yours, Ennio Flaiano

Bread and chocolate awarded the Silver Bear

Giulietta Masina awarding Franco Brusati, Bread and chocolate film director, the Silver Bear came just at the end of the Film Festival in Berlin. Here they are in the official picture taken during the award.

ITALY AWARDED THE SILVER BEAR Giulietta Masina awarding Franco Brusati, Bread and chocolate film director, the Silver Bear came just at the end of the Film Festival in Berlin. Here they are in the official picture taken during the award.

Meeting Vittorio Gassman

Rome. Participants in the debate started by L'Espresso (an Italian magazine) on the crisis of the theatre in Vittorio Gassmans study. From left to right: Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, Anna Maria Ferrero, Olga Villi, Nicola Chiaromonte, Elsa Morante, Sandro De Feo, Raoul Radice, Franco Brusati, Remigio Paone, Vittorio Gassman.