Raimondo Del Balzo (17 January 1939 – 22 September 1995) was an Italian screenwriter and director.
Born in
Rome
Rome (Italian language, Italian and , ) is the capital city and most populated (municipality) of Italy. It is also the administrative centre of the Lazio Regions of Italy, region and of the Metropolitan City of Rome. A special named with 2, ...
, Del Balzo first worked as a journalist and then entered the cinema industry in 1967 as a screenwriter.
In 1973 he had a large commercial success with his directorial debut film, ''
The Last Snows of Spring'', a success confirmed by his second work, ''
White Horses of Summer''.
These films launched a melodramatic subgenre known as "lacrima movie" (i.e. "tearjerker movie"), usually characterized by plots involving unfortunate children and fatal diseases.
[Vv. Aa. ''Preparate i fazzoletti, guida al lacrima movie''. Nocturno Dossier, 2007.] A strong sentimentalism was his trademark also in his later works, which indeed disappointed at the box office.
Del Balzo died of cancer, as did the main characters of his first two films.
References
External links
*
{{DEFAULTSORT:Del Balzo, Raimondo
1939 births
1995 deaths
Deaths from cancer in Lazio
Italian film directors
20th-century Italian screenwriters
Italian television directors
Writers from Rome
Italian male screenwriters
20th-century Italian male writers