Giuseppe Berto


Giuseppe Berto was an Italian writer and screenwriter He is mostly known for his novels The Sky Is Red and Incubus.
He was a prisoner at Camp Hereford from 1943 to 1946.

Selected works

Il cielo è rosso a novel, published in 1947, about a group of displaced teenagers during World War II Opere di Dio short stories, published in 1948 Il brigante a novel, published in 1951 Il male oscuro a "novel of neurosis and psychoanalysis", which in 1964 won him the Viareggio Prize and the Campiello Prize La cosa buffa a novel, published in 1966 Anonimo Veneziano a novel, published in 1971 La Passione secondo noi stessi, a 1972 play La gloria a novel, published in 1978, about Judas's betrayal of Jesus

Selected filmography

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Screenwriter

Partial list of screenplays written by Berto: