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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 ...
Luchino Visconti was an Italian theatre, opera and cinema director, as well as a screenwriter. He began his filmmaking career as an assistant director on Jean Renoir's Toni (1935) and Partie de ...
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 ...
Shoeshine/ Italian:Sciuscia' ( Vittorio de Sica) is the first wholly neorealistic picture but it was a commercial disaster. Film critics judged it negatively because of the difficulty in ...
Sophia Loren (Sofia Villani Scicolone) is the most famous Italian actress, born in 1934 in Rome. His first film role was in LeRoy's film Quo Vadis. Her first starring role was in Aida. Then she had ...
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 ...
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 ...