Who is the author of the novel which provided the inspiration for a film shown at the opening of the  64th annual Venice International Film Festival?
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64th Venice International Film Festival The 64th annual Venice International Film Festival, held in Venice, Italy, opened on August 29, 2007, with Joe Wright's "Atonement" and closed September 8, 2007. Host of the event was Italian actress Ambra Angiolini. The Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to American director Tim Burton. Once again all the films running the contest were shown for the first time as world premieres in keeping with the festival tradition since the Second World War.
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Atonement (film) Atonement is a 2007 British romantic war drama film directed by Joe Wright and based on Ian McEwan's 2001 novel of the same name. The film stars James McAvoy, Keira Knightley, Saoirse Ronan, Romola Garai and Vanessa Redgrave, and chronicles a crime and its consequences over the course of six decades, beginning in the 1930s. It was produced by Working Title Films and filmed in England. Distributed in most of the world by Universal Studios, it was released in the United Kingdom and Ireland on 7 September 2007 and in North America on 7 December 2007.
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Donna Leon Donna Leon ( ; born September 28, 1942, in Montclair, New Jersey) is the American author of a series of crime novels set in Venice, Italy and featuring the fictional hero Commissario Guido Brunetti.
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The Thin Line (novel) The Thin Line, later re-issued as "Murder, My Love", is a 1951 crime novel by the British-Lebanese author Edward Atiyah. It was filmed twice, first as "The Stranger Within a Woman" by Naruse Mikio, 1966, and then by Claude Chabrol, as "Just Before Nightfall", 1971.
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Ragazzi di vita Ragazzi di vita (] ; English: literally "boys of life", idiomatically "hustlers") is a novel by Italian author, poet and intellectual Pier Paolo Pasolini. It was published in 1955.
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Rocco and His Brothers Rocco e i suoi fratelli (English: Rocco and His Brothers ) is a 1960 Italian film directed by Luchino Visconti, inspired by an episode from the novel "Il ponte della Ghisolfa" by Giovanni Testori. Set in Milan, it tells the story of an immigrant family from the South and its disintegration in the society of the industrial North. The title is a combination of Thomas Mann's "Joseph and his Brothers" and the name of Rocco Scotellaro, an Italian poet who described the feelings of the peasants of southern Italy.
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Dan Brown Daniel Gerhard "Dan" Brown (born June 22, 1964) is an American author of thriller fiction, most notably the novels "Angels & Demons" (2000), "The Da Vinci Code" (2003), and "Inferno" (2013). Brown's novels are treasure hunts set in a 24-hour period, and feature the recurring themes of cryptography, keys, symbols, codes, and conspiracy theories. His books have been translated into 52 languages, and as of 2012, sold over 200 million copies. Three of them, "Angels & Demons" (2000), "The Da Vinci Code" (2003), and "Inferno" (2013), have been adapted into films.
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Dirty Weekend (novel) Dirty Weekend (1991) is a novel by Helen Zahavi, adapted into a film two years later by Zahavi and director Michael Winner. In the US it was first published under the title The Weekend; some editions are subtitled "A Novel of Revenge".
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Quiet Chaos (film) Quiet Chaos (Italian: "Caos calmo" ) is a 2008 Italian drama film based on the novel of the same name by Sandro Veronesi.
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Venetian Masque Venetian Masque is a 1934 adventure novel written by the Anglo-Italian writer Rafael Sabatini.
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The Sunday Woman The Sunday Woman (Italian: "La donna della domenica" ) is a crime novel by Italian authors Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini, first published in 1972. It was subsequently translated into English by William Weaver in 1973.
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The Hour of the Star The Hour of the Star ("A hora da estrela") is a novel by Clarice Lispector published in 1977, shortly after the author's death. In 1985, the novel was adapted by Suzana Amaral into a film of the same name, which won the Silver Bear for Best Actress in the 36th Berlin International Film Festival of 1986. It has been translated into English twice by New Directions Publishing with Giovanni Pontiero's 1992 translation followed by Benjamin Moser's version in 2011.
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Nuit de chien Nuit de Chien ("This Night") is a 2008 French-German-Portuguese drama film directed by Werner Schroeter. It is based on the novel "Para esta noche" by Juan Carlos Onetti. It was entered into the competition at the 65th Venice International Film Festival.
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The Decameron (1971 film) The Decameron (Italian: "Il Decameron" ) is a 1971 film by Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini, based on the novel "Il Decameron" by Giovanni Boccaccio. It is the first movie of Pasolini's "Trilogy of life", the others being "The Canterbury Tales" and "Arabian Nights".
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Andy Weir Andrew Taylor Weir (born June 16, 1972) is an American novelist whose debut novel, "The Martian", was later adapted into a film of the same name directed by Ridley Scott in 2015. He also worked as a computer programmer for much of his life. He received the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2016.
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Le Chant du monde (film) Le Chant du monde is a 1965 Italian film directed by Marcel Camus. It is based on the novel "The Song of the World" (Fr. "Le Chant du monde", 1934) by French author Jean Giono.
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The Last Don The Last Don is a novel by Mario Puzo, best known as the author of "The Godfather".
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2017 Cannes Film Festival The 70th Cannes Film Festival took place from 17 to 28 May 2017, in Cannes, France. Spanish film director and screenwriter Pedro Almodóvar was the President of the Jury for the festival and Italian actress Monica Bellucci hosted the opening and closing ceremonies. "Ismael's Ghosts", directed by French director Arnaud Desplechin, was the opening film for the festival.
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64th Berlin International Film Festival The 64th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 6 to 16 February 2014. Wes Anderson's film "The Grand Budapest Hotel" opened the festival. British film director Ken Loach was presented with the Honorary Golden Bear. The Golden Bear was awarded to the Chinese film "Black Coal, Thin Ice" directed by Diao Yinan, which also served as closing film.
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The Right Hand of the Grand Master The Right Hand of the Grand Master (Georgian: დიდოსტატის კონსტანტინეს მარჯვენა , "The Right Hand of the Grand Master Constantine"), also published as The Hand of the Great Master is a historical novel by 20th century Georgian writer Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, who first published it in 1939 in a literary magazine "Mnatobi". Subtitled "knightly novel" by the author, the book received much critical acclaim in Georgia and in Soviet Union as a whole, selling 700,000 copies of 12 publications of its Russian-translated version in the author's lifetime alone. A two-episode feature film "The Right Hand of the Grand Master" based on the novel and directed by Vakhtang Tabliashvili and Devi Abashidze was premiered in 1969.
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Pinocchio Pinocchio ( ; ] ), the name a variant of common "pinolo" ("pine seed"), or "pine's eye" ("occhio", the Italian word for eye), is a fictional character and the protagonist of the children's novel "The Adventures of Pinocchio" (1883) by Italian writer Carlo Collodi. Carved by a woodcarver named Geppetto in a village near Florence, he was created as a wooden puppet but dreamed of becoming a real boy. He lies often.
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Generation 1000 Euros Generation 1000 Euros (Italian: Generazione 1000 euro , also known as "The 1000 Euros Generation" and "Generazione mille euro") is a 2009 Italian comedy film written and directed by Massimo Venier. It is loosely based on a novel with the same name written by Antonio Incorvaia and Alessandro Rimassa.