# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/franco-solinas
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:23:51.246Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/franco-solinas"
name: "Franco Solinas"
slug: "franco-solinas"
description: "Franco Solinas was an Italian writer and screenwriter. He is best known for the screenplays of The Battle of Algiers, which was nominated for three Academy Awards, and State of Siege. He also wrote the 1969 historical drama ¡Queimada!, starring Marlon Brando. Both films were directed by Gillo Pontecorvo."
tagline: "Italian novelist and screenwriter (1927-1982)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/guvjgiq2BPp8H8AlpvmUSLwTuGs.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Italy"
  isoCode: "IT"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1927-01-19"
deathDate: "1982-09-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.21
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.353385333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0758357/"
    handle:    "nm0758357"
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco_Solinas"
    title: "Franco Solinas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco_Solinas"
    title: "Franco Solinas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A6%CF%81%CE%AC%CE%BD%CE%BA%CE%BF_%CE%A3%CE%BF%CE%BB%CE%AF%CE%BD%CE%B1%CF%82"
    title: "Φράνκο Σολίνας"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco_Solinas"
    title: "Franco Solinas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%DA%A9%D9%88_%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%B3"
    title: "فرانکو سولیناس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco_Solinas"
    title: "Franco Solinas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3751607"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/71416"
    title: "Franco Solinas"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump