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When talking about the phenomenon called the Italian neorealism it is not easy to define it in one sentence. It was in fact a movement of ideas that dominated in the 40s of 19th century. It can also ...
Centro Sperimentale is Mussolini's state-subsidized film school where film directors learned to make films in the well-equipped studios that Mussolini fostered (a complex called the Cinecittà). ...
The most obvious way neorealist films differed from their predecessors was that neorealist films were shot on location. A second way neorealist films differed from their predecessors was in their use of ...
The Bicycle Thieves (Italian: Ladri di biciclette), also known as The Bicycle Thief, is a 1948 Italian neorealist film directed by Vittorio De Sica. Set right after the end of World War II, it ...
In 1940 De Sica acts as director after having grabbed all the secrets of the set. His first films were Red Roses (1940), Maddalena Zero for Conduct (1940), Doctor Beware (1941) and A Garibaldian in ...
Roberto Rossellini was born in Rome in 1906. Before he entered "the neorealism world" he worked as art-director and editor, and subsequently as scriptwriter and director of documentaries. His film ...
The Children Are Watching Us (Italian:I bambini ci guardano) is De Sica's first collaboration with Cesare Zavattini, and a kind of precursor of neorealism made in 1943. A young boy named Pricò and ...