Bruno Zanin

Bruno Zanin
Born	(1951-04-09) 9 April 1951 Vigonovo, Veneto, Italy
Occupation(s)	Actor, writer
Years active	1973–present
Spouse	Monique
Children	Francesco Fiorenzo

Bruno Zanin (born 9 April 1951 in Vigonovo, Veneto, Italy) is an Italian film, theatre and TV actor and writer.

Life and career

Child of farmers and the sixth of seven brothers, Zanin studied at a school run by priests up to the age of fourteen when an event occurred that made him leave (detailed in his novel, Nobody Must Know). After a life on the road including time in jail, he became an actor by accident when Federico Fellini chose him among thousands of young men for the role of Titta in the film Amarcord. He went on to appear in numerous films, theatre plays and television series with Italian and foreign filmmakers such as Giuseppe Ferrara, Marco Tullio Giordana, Giuliano Montaldo, Franco Brusati, Luigi Faccini, Lucian Pintilie and Lina Wertmüller. In the theatre, he has worked with Giorgio Strehler, Luca Ronconi, Marco Sciaccaluga, Gianfranco De Bosio, Sandro Sequi, and Alfredo Arias, appearing chiefly in Venetian language plays by Goldoni but also in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice.

In 2007 he published his first novel, an autobiographical work titled Nobody Must Know. The book obtained special mention at the Città di Latisana per il Nord Est, an Italian literary awards event. The novel was published in Spanish by Trotta editorial (Madrid) as Que no se entere nadie.

Zanin has two sons, Francesco and Fiorenzo. He lives in a log cabin in the woods at Vanzone con San Carlo, a mountain village below Monte Rosa, Piedmont.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Director	Notes
1973	Amarcord	Titta	Federico Fellini
1974	Un uomo, una città	Young Lover of Maria	Romolo Guerrieri
1974	La prova d'amore	Gianni	Tiziano Longo
1975	La polizia ha le mani legate	Franco Ludovisi	Luciano Ercoli
1975	La prima volta sull'erba - Danza d'amore sotto gli olmi		Gianluigi Calderone
1976	L'Agnese va a morire	Figlio di Cencio	Giuliano Montaldo
1976	The Mistress Is Served	Daniele Cardona, il figlio	Mario Lanfranchi
1978	La borgata dei sogni		Daniele Pettinari
1978	Mille e una vita
1982	Marco Polo	Giulio	Giuliano Montaldo	TV Mini-Series, 3 episodes
1982	Il buon soldato	Marco	Franco Brusati
1983	Occhei, occhei		Claudia Fiorio
1984	Notti e nebbie	Bonetti	Marco Tullio Giordana	TV movie
1985	Inganni		Luigi Faccini
1986	Il caso Moro	2nd Brigadist	Giuseppe Ferrara
1987	L'isola del tesoro	Morgan	Antonio Margheriti	TV Mini-Series, 5 episodes
2000	Francesca e Annunziata
2000	La donna del delitto	Bruno D'Amato	Corrado Colombo
2009	Reame del Nulla
2017	In Search of Fellini	Beppi	Taron Lexton

TV theatre

• 1979: The Merchant of Venice, by William Shakespeare, dir. Gianfranco De Bosio with Sergio Fantoni, Andrea Giordana, Massimo Dapporto, Pino Ferrara, Lina Sastri, Bruno Zanin, Vittorio Stagni, Ilaria Occhini, Massimo Foschi, Gianrico Tedeschi, Antonio Garrani, Loris Loddi, (aired on March 24, 1979).

Theatre

• 1974: Goldoni - La putta onorata and la buona moglie
• 1975: Goldoni - Il Campiello
• 1979: Shakespeare - Il Mercante di Venezia
• 1982: Goldoni - I pettegolezzi delle donne
• 1989: Goldoni - Il Ventaglio

Writing

• 2006: Nobody must know (ed. Tullio Pironti)

References

• Nessuno dovrà saperlo, Zanin's book (in Italian)
• Bruno Zanin at IMDb
• chữa bệnh trĩ bằng quả sung

External links

• An open letter (in Italian) to Bruno about the revelations about pedophile priests in his book
• Interview (in Italian) to Stefano Lorenzetto in the Il Giornale newspaper, where he talks about his book
• Bruno Zanin at IMDb
• Literature site in Spanish language
• Bruno Zanin testimonial on the pedophile priest Don Gelmini (in Italian) - part 1
• Bruno Zanin testimonial on the pedophile priest Don Gelmini (in Italian) - part 2
• Picture from the film Amarcord
• Review of his book (in Italian)