Valerio Zurlini (19 March 1926 – 26 October 1982) was an Italian stage and film director and screenwriter. During his law studies in Rome , he started working in the theatre. In 1943, he joined the Italian resistance . Zurlini became a member of the Italian Communist Party . He filmed short documentaries in the immediate post-war period before he directed his first feature film in 1954, The Girls of San Frediano . In 1958, Zurlini won the Nastro d'Argento together with Leonardo Benvenuti , Piero De Bernardi and Alberto Lattuada for Best Script for Lattuada's Guendalina . Zurlini made his na...
Girl with a Suitcase
When Aida (Claudia Cardinale) is deserted by a man who had promised her a showbiz career and persuaded her to leave her job singing in a night club, she travels alone to the big city to look for him. The man's younger brother Lorenzo (Jacques Perrin) conceals his brother from her but helps her with her living expenses and falls in love with her. Lorenzo is only 16 and at school and Aida, knowing that the relationship has no future, begins a relationship with a new man but Lorenzo is unwilling to let go.
