Mario Soldati

Mario Soldati was born on Nov 17, 1906 in Italy. Mario Soldati's big-screen debut came with Gli uomini, che mascalzoni... directed by Mario Camerini in 1932. Mario Soldati is known for Waterloo directed by Sergey Bondarchuk, Rod Steiger stars as Napoleon Bonaparte and Christopher Plummer as Arthur Wellesley - Duke of Wellington. Mario Soldati has got 2 awards and 5 nominations so far. The most recent award Mario Soldati achieved is Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists. The upcoming new movie Mario Soldati plays is Il maestro which will be released on Jan 22, 1992.

Mario Soldati studied by the Jesuits and in the 1920s was acquainted with liberal intellectuals who gathered around Piero Gobetti. He wrote his first play ("Pilatus") when he was 18, and published hist first short story collection ("Salmace") in 1929. In 1935 he reached literary success with "America primo amore" (America First Love), a novel in which he transposed his diary of his stay in the U.S. between 1929 and 1931 as guest professor at the Columbia University. His life was divided between literature and movie-making. He was also a well-known scholar of English and American Literature, and authored several documentary programs for Italian State broadcaster RAI-TV.