Vittorio De Sica ( , ; 7 July 1901 – 13 November 1974) was an Italian film director and actor, a leading figure in the neorealist movement.
Four of the films he directed won Academy Awards: ''
Sciuscià
''Shoeshine'' ( it, Sciuscià , from Neapolitan pronunciation of the English) is a 1946 Italian film directed by Vittorio De Sica. Sometimes regarded as his first masterpiece, the film follows two shoeshine boys who get into trouble with the po ...
'' and ''
Bicycle Thieves
''Bicycle Thieves'' ( it, Ladri di biciclette; sometimes known in the United States as ''The Bicycle Thief'') is a 1948 Italian neorealist drama film directed by Vittorio De Sica. It follows the story of a poor father searching in post- World ...
'' (honorary), while ''
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
''Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow'' ( it, Ieri, oggi, domani) is a 1963 comedy anthology film by Italian director Vittorio De Sica. It stars Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni. The film consists of three short stories about couples in differ ...
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
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) and ''Bicycle Thieves'' helped establish the permanent Best Foreign Film Award. These two films are considered part of the canon of classic cinema. ''Bicycle Thieves'' was deemed the greatest film of all time by ''
Sight & Sound
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'' magazine's poll of filmmakers and critics in 1958, and was cited by
Turner Classic Movies
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as one of the 15 most influential films in cinema history.
De Sica was also nominated for the 1957 Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for playing Major Rinaldi in American director Charles Vidor's 1957 adaptation of
Ernest Hemingway
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's '' A Farewell to Arms'', a movie that was panned by critics and proved a box office flop. De Sica's acting was considered the highlight of the film.
Life and career
He was born on 7 July 1901 in
Sora, Lazio
Sora () is a town and ''comune'' of Lazio, Italy, in the province of Frosinone. It is built in a plain on the banks of the Liri. This part of the valley is the seat of some important manufacturing, especially of paper mills. The area around Sora i ...
, the son of
Neapolitan
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Geography and history
* Province of Naples, a province in the Campania region of southern Italy that includes the city
* Duchy of Naples, in existence during the Early and Hig ...
parents. His father was an officer of the Bank of Italy, and was transferred from Naples to Sora, Italy. De Sica began his career as a
theatre
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actor
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in the early 1920s and joined Tatiana Pavlova's theatre company in 1923. In 1933 he founded his own company with his wife
Giuditta Rissone
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and
Sergio Tofano
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Tofano was born in Rome. In 1909, he made his first appearance on stage with Ermete Novelli, t ...
. The company performed mostly light
comedies
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, but they also staged plays by
Beaumarchais
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and worked with famous directors like
Luchino Visconti
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.
His meeting with the screenwriter
Cesare Zavattini
Cesare Zavattini (20 September 1902 – 13 October 1989) was an Italian screenwriter and one of the first theorists and proponents of the Neorealist movement in Italian cinema.
Biography
Born in Luzzara near Reggio Emilia in northern Italy, ...
was a very important event: together they created some of the most celebrated films of the neorealistic age, like ''
Sciuscià
''Shoeshine'' ( it, Sciuscià , from Neapolitan pronunciation of the English) is a 1946 Italian film directed by Vittorio De Sica. Sometimes regarded as his first masterpiece, the film follows two shoeshine boys who get into trouble with the po ...
'' (''Shoeshine'') and ''
Bicycle Thieves
''Bicycle Thieves'' ( it, Ladri di biciclette; sometimes known in the United States as ''The Bicycle Thief'') is a 1948 Italian neorealist drama film directed by Vittorio De Sica. It follows the story of a poor father searching in post- World ...
'' (released as ''The Bicycle Thief'' in America), both of which De Sica directed.
De Sica appeared in the British television series '' The Four Just Men'' (1959).
Personal life
His passion for gambling was well known. Because of it, he often lost large sums of money and accepted work that might not otherwise have interested him. He never kept his gambling a secret from anyone; in fact, he projected it on characters in his own movies, like ''Count Max'' (which he acted in but did not direct) and ''The Gold of Naples'', as well as in ''General Della Rovere'', a film directed by Rossellini in which De Sica played the title role.
In 1937 Vittorio De Sica married the actress
Giuditta Rissone
Giuditta Rissone (10 March 1895 – 22 June 1977) was an Italian film actress who appeared in 25 films between 1933 and 1966. She was born in Genoa and died in Rome. Giuditta Rissone married the director and actor Vittorio De Sica in 1937 in ...
, who gave birth to their daughter, Emilia (Emi). In 1942, on the set of ''Un garibaldino al convento'', he met Spanish actress
María Mercader
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Leon Trotsky
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's assassin), with whom he started a relationship. After divorcing Rissone in France in 1954, he married Mercader in 1959 in Mexico, but this union was not considered valid under Italian law. In 1968 he obtained French citizenship and married Mercader in Paris. Meanwhile, he had already had two sons with her: Manuel, in 1949, a musician, and
Christian
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, in 1951, who would follow his father's path as an actor and director.
He was a
Roman Catholic
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*Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century AD
*Roman people, the people of ancient Rome
*'' Epistle to the Romans'', shortened to ''Romans'', a lette ...
and a communist. Although divorced, De Sica never parted from his first family. He led a double family life, with double celebrations on holidays. It is said that, at Christmas and on New Year's Eve, he used to put back the clocks by two hours in Mercader's house so that he could make a toast at midnight with both families. His first wife agreed to keep up the facade of a marriage so as not to leave her daughter without a father.
Vittorio De Sica died at 73 after surgery due to
lung cancer
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Vittorio De Sica was given the Interfilm Grand Prix in 1971 by the
Berlin International Film Festival
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Cannes Film Festival
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Palme d'Or
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Winner
* '' Umberto D.''
** Cannes Film Festival Official Selection
* '' Stazione Termini''
** Cannes Film Festival Official Selection
* ''
L'oro di Napoli
''The Gold of Naples'' ( it, L'oro di Napoli ) is a 1954 Italian anthology film directed by Vittorio De Sica. It was entered into the 1955 Cannes Film Festival.
Plot
The film is a tribute to Naples, where director De Sica spent his first years, ...
''
** Cannes Film Festival Official Selection
* ''
Il Tetto
''The Roof'' ( it, Il tetto) is a 1956 Italian drama film directed and produced by Vittorio De Sica.
Plot
Natale, an apprentice bricklayer, and Luisa, who has no marketable skill, marry and try to live with Natale's parents and other relatives i ...
''
** Cannes Film Festival OCIC Award Winner
* '' Anna di Brooklyn''
**
Berlin International Film Festival
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Official Selection
* ''
La Ciociara
''Two Women'' ( it, La ciociara , rough literal translation "The Woman from Ciociaria") is a 1960 war drama film directed by Vittorio De Sica from a screenplay by Cesare Zavattini and De Sica, based on the novel of the same name by Alberto Mora ...
Moscow International Film Festival
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Official Selection
* ''
Il Giardino dei Finzi-Contini
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''
**
Berlin International Film Festival
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Golden Bear
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History
The win ...
Winner
** Berlin International Film Festival Interfilm Award Winner – Otto Dibelius Film Award
*
Nastro d'Argento for Best Director
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1946 for ''
Sciuscià
''Shoeshine'' ( it, Sciuscià , from Neapolitan pronunciation of the English) is a 1946 Italian film directed by Vittorio De Sica. Sometimes regarded as his first masterpiece, the film follows two shoeshine boys who get into trouble with the po ...
Sciuscià
''Shoeshine'' ( it, Sciuscià , from Neapolitan pronunciation of the English) is a 1946 Italian film directed by Vittorio De Sica. Sometimes regarded as his first masterpiece, the film follows two shoeshine boys who get into trouble with the po ...
(Shoeshine)''
* Academy Award 1949 Special Foreign Language Film Award for ''
Bicycle Thieves
''Bicycle Thieves'' ( it, Ladri di biciclette; sometimes known in the United States as ''The Bicycle Thief'') is a 1948 Italian neorealist drama film directed by Vittorio De Sica. It follows the story of a poor father searching in post- World ...
Bicycle Thieves
''Bicycle Thieves'' ( it, Ladri di biciclette; sometimes known in the United States as ''The Bicycle Thief'') is a 1948 Italian neorealist drama film directed by Vittorio De Sica. It follows the story of a poor father searching in post- World ...
Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini
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Alfredo De Antoni
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Mario Almirante
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Mario Almirante
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Amleto Palermi
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Se ...
) as Il fine dicitore
* ''
Gli uomini, che mascalzoni!
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The film was a great success, De Sica and Lia Franca became stars and the song ''Parlami d'amore Mari ...
'' (1932, by
Mario Camerini
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The cousin of Augusto Genina, he made the most well-known films in Italy during the 1930s, most of them comedies starring Vittorio De Sica. H ...
Baldassarre Negroni
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Selected film ...
Carl Boese
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Selected filmography
* ''Farmer Borchardt'' (1917)
* ''Donna Lucia ...
)
* ''Pasa el amor'' (1933, by Adolf Trotz)
* '' Lisetta'' (1934, by
Carl Boese
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Selected filmography
* ''Farmer Borchardt'' (1917)
* ''Donna Lucia ...
Max Neufeld
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Sele ...
(he stars too the German version titles ''Das lied der sonne'')) as Dr. Giuseppe Paladino
* '' Un cattivo soggetto'' (1933, by
Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia
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Amleto Palermi
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Se ...
Gennaro Righelli
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) as Martino
* ''The Song of the Sun'' (1934, by Max Neufeld) as Paladino, il avvocato
* '' Darò un milione'' (1935, by
Mario Camerini
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The cousin of Augusto Genina, he made the most well-known films in Italy during the 1930s, most of them comedies starring Vittorio De Sica. H ...
Nunzio Malasomma
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* '' Mister Radio'' (1924)
* '' Orient'' (1924)
* '' The Doll Queen'' ...
) as Il dottore Alberto Spinelli
* ''
Lohengrin
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'' (1936, by
Nunzio Malasomma
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Selected filmography
* '' Mister Radio'' (1924)
* '' Orient'' (1924)
* '' The Doll Queen'' ...
Il signor Max
''Il Signor Max'' is a 1937 Italian "Telefoni Bianchi, white-telephones" comedy film directed by Mario Camerini and starring Vittorio De Sica and Assia Noris.
Plot
Gianni is a poor, young newspaper salesman in Rome. However, during his vacations h ...
'' (1937, by
Mario Camerini
Mario Camerini (6 February 1895 – 4 February 1981) was an Italian film director and screenwriter.
The cousin of Augusto Genina, he made the most well-known films in Italy during the 1930s, most of them comedies starring Vittorio De Sica. H ...
) as Gianni / Max Varaldo
* ''
But It's Nothing Serious
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'' (1937, by
Mario Camerini
Mario Camerini (6 February 1895 – 4 February 1981) was an Italian film director and screenwriter.
The cousin of Augusto Genina, he made the most well-known films in Italy during the 1930s, most of them comedies starring Vittorio De Sica. H ...
) as Memmo Speranza
* ''
Naples of Olden Times
''Naples of Olden Times'' (Italy: ''Napoli d'altri tempi'') is a 1938 Italian musical comedy film directed by Amleto Palermi and starring Vittorio De Sica, Emma Gramatica and Elisa Cegani.Gundle p.153 It was made at Cinecittà in Rome.
Synopsis
At ...
'' (1938, by
Amleto Palermi
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Se ...
Oreste Biancoli
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Camillo Mastrocinque
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Amleto Palermi
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Se ...
) as Paolo Veronda
* ''
They've Kidnapped a Man
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It was shot at t ...
'' (1938, by
Gennaro Righelli
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Naples That Never Die
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Department Store
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'' (1939, by
Mario Camerini
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) as Bruno Zacchi
* ''
It Always Ends That Way
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'' (1939, by
Enrique Telémaco Susini
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) as Alberto Miller
* ''
Manon Lescaut
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'' (1940, by
Carmine Gallone
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Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia
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) as Il conte Corrado Valli
* ''
Red Roses
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'' (1940, by
Giuseppe Amato
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and Vittorio De Sica) as Alberto Verani
* ''
The Two Mothers
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It was shot at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome. The film's sets ...
'' (1940, by
Amleto Palermi
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Se ...
Amleto Palermi
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) as Pietro Bandelli
* ''
Maddalena, Zero for Conduct
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Plot
A mys ...
Raffaello Matarazzo
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Matarazzo started writing film reviews for the Roman newspaper ''Il Tevere'' before re-editing scripts for the Italian film company Cines. His first films w ...
(script too, not credited)) as Fabrizio Marchini
* ''
Teresa Venerdì
''Teresa Venerdì'' is a 1941 Italian " white-telephones" comedy film directed by Vittorio De Sica.
Cast
*Vittorio De Sica ... Il dottore Pietro Vignali
*Adriana Benetti ... Teresa Venerdì
*Irasema Dilián ... Lilli Passalacqua
*Guglielm ...
'' (1941, by Vittorio De Sica) as Dott. Pietro Vignali
* '' Se io fossi onesto'' (1942, by
Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia
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(script too)) as Pietro Kovach
* ''
A Garibaldian in the Convent
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'' (1942, by Vittorio De Sica) as Nino Bixio (uncredited)
* '' La guardia del corpo'' (1942, by
Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia
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Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia
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(script too)) as Il barone Roberto
* '' I nostri sogni'' (1943, by
Vittorio Cottafavi
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Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia
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Marcello Pagliero
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Pagliero was born in London and died in Paris. He is perhaps best known for his performance in the Roberto Rossellini film '' Rome, ...
Gennaro Righelli
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(story and script too)) as Il conte Ghirani
* '' Natale al campo 119'' (1947, regia di
Pietro Francisci
Pietro Francisci (9 September 1906 – 1977) was an Italian film director, best remembered for the film ''Hercules'' (1958) which inspired the sword and sandal boom of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Born in Rome, his career took a distinct tur ...
(script too and supervision director, not credited)) as Don Vicenzino
* '' Sperduti nel buio'' (1947, by
Camillo Mastrocinque
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Vittorio Cottafavi
Vittorio Cottafavi (30 January 1914 – 14 December 1998) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He directed 70 films between 1943 and 1985. His film '' Il diavolo sulle colline'' was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at t ...
) as Leo, l'ateo
* ''
Cuore
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'' (1948, by
Duilio Coletti
Duilio Coletti (28 December 1906 – 22 May 1999) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He directed 29 films between 1934 and 1977.
Career
Born in Penne, Abruzzo, he took a degree in medicine and surgery and practiced the profess ...
Mamma Mia, What an Impression!
''Mamma Mia, What an Impression!'' (Italian: ''Mamma mia, che impressione!'') is a 1951 Italian comedy film directed by Roberto Savarese and starring Alberto Sordi, Giovanna Pala and Carlo Giustini.
It was shot at the Farnesina Studios of Tit ...
'' (1951, by
Roberto Savarese
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Selected filmography
* '' La p ...
)
* ''
Buongiorno, elefante!
''Hello Elephant'' ( it, Buongiorno, elefante!) is a 1952 Italian comedy film directed by Gianni Franciolini.
Cast
* Vittorio De Sica: Carlo Caretti
* María Mercader
María de la Asunción Mercader Forcada (; 6 March 1918 – 26 Januar ...
'' (1952, by
Gianni Franciolini
Gianni Franciolini (1 June 1910 – 1 January 1960) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He directed 19 films between 1939 and 1959.
Life and career
Born in Florence, in 1929 he moved to Paris to study journalism; there he came ...
In Olden Days
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Plot
The cart of old books
A good-natured peddler of old books shows his customers some works from the past ...
Max Ophüls
Maximillian Oppenheimer (; 6 May 1902 – 26 March 1957), known as Max Ophüls (; ), was a German-French film director who worked in Germany (1931–1933), France (1933–1940 and 1950–1957), and the United States (1947–1950). He made near ...
) as Baron Fabrizio Donati
* ''
Villa Borghese
Villa Borghese or Villa Borghese Pinciana ('Borghese family{{!Borghese villa on the Pincian Hill') is the villa built by the architect Flaminio Ponzio (and, after his death, finished by his assistant Giovanni Vasanzio), developing sketches by Scip ...
'' (1953, by
Gianni Franciolini
Gianni Franciolini (1 June 1910 – 1 January 1960) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He directed 19 films between 1939 and 1959.
Life and career
Born in Florence, in 1929 he moved to Paris to study journalism; there he came ...
) as L'avvocato Arturo Cavazzuti (segment: Incidente a Villa Borghese)
* ''
Pane, amore e fantasia
''Bread, Love and Dreams'' ( it, Pane, amore e fantasia) is a 1953 Italian romantic comedy film directed by Luigi Comencini. At the 4th Berlin International Film Festival it won the Silver Bear award.
Plot
The film is set in Sagliena, an imaginar ...
'' (1953, by
Luigi Comencini
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Cento anni d'amore
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It was shot at Cinecittà Studios
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'' (1954, by
Lionello De Felice
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Given name:
* Lionello Bononi, Italian of the Baroque period
* Lionello Cecil (1893–1957), Australian operatic tenor
* Lionello d'Este (1407–1450), marquis of Ferrara and Duke of ...
) as Duke Giovanni del Bagno aka Signor Pallini (segment "Pendolin")
* '' Gran Varietà'' (1954, by
Domenico Paolella
Domenico Paolella (18 October 1915 - 7 October 2002) was an Italian director, screenwriter and journalist.
Born in Foggia, between 1933 and 1935 Paolella won several contests for amateur directors; in the same years he started working as a journ ...
) as Veneziani - il fine dicitore (segment "Il censore")
* '' A Slice of Life'' (1954, by Alessandro Blasetti et Paul Paviot) as Il conte Ferdinando (segment "Don Corradino")
* '' Il letto'' (1954, by
Gianni Franciolini
Gianni Franciolini (1 June 1910 – 1 January 1960) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He directed 19 films between 1939 and 1959.
Life and career
Born in Florence, in 1929 he moved to Paris to study journalism; there he came ...
) as Roberto (segment "Divorce, Le")
* '' Vergine moderna'' (1954, by
Marcello Pagliero
Marcello Pagliero (15 January 1907 – 18 October 1980) was an Italian film director, actor, and screenwriter.
Pagliero was born in London and died in Paris. He is perhaps best known for his performance in the Roberto Rossellini film '' Rome, ...
Paolo Moffa
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Born in Rome, Moffa started his career in the 1930s as a script supervisor. Mainly active as ...
) as Il generale
* ''
Pane, amore e gelosia
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'' (1954, by
Luigi Comencini
Luigi Comencini (; 8 June 1916 – 6 April 2007) ''The Guardian'' was an Italian
) as Maresciallo Carotenuto
* ''
L'oro di Napoli
''The Gold of Naples'' ( it, L'oro di Napoli ) is a 1954 Italian anthology film directed by Vittorio De Sica. It was entered into the 1955 Cannes Film Festival.
Plot
The film is a tribute to Naples, where director De Sica spent his first years, ...
'' (1954, by Vittorio De Sica) as Il conte Prospero B. (segment "I giocatori") (uncredited)
* ''
Peccato che sia una canaglia
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Il segno di Venere
''The Sign of Venus'' ( it, Il segno di Venere) is a 1955 Italian comedy film directed by Dino Risi and starring Sophia Loren. It was entered into the 1955 Cannes Film Festival.
Plot
The story revolves around an attractive woman named Agnese ( ...
'' (1955, by
Dino Risi
Dino Risi (23 December 1916 – 7 June 2008) was an Italian film director. With Mario Monicelli, Luigi Comencini, Nanni Loy and Ettore Scola, he was one of the masters of ''commedia all'italiana''.
Biography
Risi was born in Milan. He had an o ...
) as Alessio Spano
* ''
Gli ultimi cinque minuti
''The Last Five Minutes'' (Italian: ''Gli ultimi cinque minuti'') is a 1955 French-Italian comedy film directed by Giuseppe Amato and starring Linda Darnell, Vittorio De Sica and Peppino De Filippo.Davis p.145 It is also known by the alternative ti ...
'' (1955, by
Giuseppe Amato
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He was born in ...
Mario Camerini
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The cousin of Augusto Genina, he made the most well-known films in Italy during the 1930s, most of them comedies starring Vittorio De Sica. H ...
) as Don Teofilo - governatore
* ''
Racconti romani
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'' (1955, by
Gianni Franciolini
Gianni Franciolini (1 June 1910 – 1 January 1960) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He directed 19 films between 1939 and 1959.
Life and career
Born in Florence, in 1929 he moved to Paris to study journalism; there he came ...
Dino Risi
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Biography
Risi was born in Milan. He had an o ...
) as Comandante Carotenuto
* ''
Lucky to Be a Woman
''Lucky to Be a Woman'' ( it, La fortuna di essere donna and also known as ''What a Woman!'') is a 1956 Italian comedy film directed by Alessandro Blasetti and starring Sophia Loren, Charles Boyer and Marcello Mastroianni.
Plot
A photographe ...
'' (1955, by Alessandro Blasetti) as Minor Role (uncredited)
* '' Il bigamo'' (1956, by
Luciano Emmer
Luciano Emmer (19 January 1918 – 16 September 2009) was an Italian film director. He was born in Milan, but most of his childhood lived in Venice.
He started as filmmaker at filming Giotto's frescoes in Padua in 1938. Screenwriter Serg ...
) as L'onorevole Principe / Attorney Principe
* ''
I giorni più belli
''I giorni più belli'' ( ''The Best Days'' or ''The Most Beautiful Days'') is a 1956 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Franco Interlenghi.
Cast
* Franco Interlenghi
* Vittorio De Sica
* Mario Carotenuto
* Valeria Mori ...
The Monte Carlo Story
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Giulio Macchi
Giulio Macchi (; 1866–1935) was an Italian aeronautical engineer, the founder of ''Società Anonima Nieuport-Macchi'' (now Alenia Aermacchi).
Macchi ran a small coachbuilder's works, ''Carrozzeria Fratelli Macchi'' (Macchi Brothers Coachworks) ...
(director's assistant too)) as Count Dino della Fiaba
* '' Noi siamo le colonne'' (1956, by
Luigi Filippo D'Amico
Luigi Filippo D'Amico (9 October 1924 – 28 April 2007) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. His 1974 film ''Il domestico'' was shown as part of a retrospective on Italian comedy at the 67th Venice International Film Festival.
Sele ...
) as Alfredo Celimontani
* '' Padri e figli'' (1957, by
Mario Monicelli
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) as Vincenzo Corallo
* ''
I colpevoli
''I colpevoli'' (french: Responsabilité limitée, ''The Guilty'') is a 1957 Italian-French drama film directed by Turi Vasile. It is based on the comedy play ''Sulle strade di notte'' by Renato Lelli.
Plot
Valerio Rossello is a judge, with a ...
'' (1957, by
Turi Vasile
Turi Vasile (22 March 1922 - 1 September 2009) was an Italian producer, director, playwright, screenwriter, film critic and author.
Life and career
Born in Messina, Sicily, Vasile started working as a playwright and a theatre director in the e ...
André Hunebelle
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Master Glass Artist
After attending polytechnic school for mathematics, he became a decorator, a designer, and then a mas ...
Francesco De Robertis
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Se ...
Mario Monicelli
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) as Antonio Locoratolo
* '' A Farewell to Arms'' (1957, directed by Charles Vidor (Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor) as Major Alessandro Rinaldi
* ''
Vacanze a Ischia
''Vacanze a Ischia'' (also known as ''Holiday Island'') is a 1957 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Camerini.
Plot
The lives of several people intersect as they go on vacation to enjoy a pleasant holiday on the island. A lawyer spends it in a ...
'' (1957, by
Mario Camerini
Mario Camerini (6 February 1895 – 4 February 1981) was an Italian film director and screenwriter.
The cousin of Augusto Genina, he made the most well-known films in Italy during the 1930s, most of them comedies starring Vittorio De Sica. H ...
Camillo Mastrocinque
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) as Marchese De Vitti
* ''
Amore e chiacchiere
''Amore e chiacchiere'', internationally released as ''Love and Chatter'', is a 1957 Italian comedy film directed by Alessandro Blasetti. It is based on a Cesare Zavattini's play with the same title.
For this film Carla Gravina was awarded best ...
Camillo Mastrocinque
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) as Comandante Castaldi
* ''
Anna of Brooklyn
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It was shot at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome. The film's sets were d ...
Antonio Leonviola
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Life and career
Leonviola was born in 1913 in Montagnana as Antonio Leone Viol ...
Javier Setó
Javier Setó (1926–1969) was a Spanish screenwriter and film director.
Selected filmography
* '' Forbidden Trade'' (1952)
* '' Bronze and Moon'' (1953)
* '' Bread, Love and Andalusia'' (1958)
* '' Pelusa'' (1960)
* ''The Castilian
''The Cast ...
Piero Costa
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Selected filmography
* ' (1944)
* ''Barrier of the Law'' (1954)
* '' The Last Race'' (1954)
* '' The Girl of San Pietro Square'' (1958)
* ''Revolt of ...
Alberto Cavalcanti
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Early life
Cavalcanti was born in Rio de Janeiro, the son of a ...
Gianni Puccini
Gianni Puccini (9 November 1914 – 3 December 1968) was an Italian screenwriter and film director. He wrote for 32 films between 1940 and 1967. He also directed 18 films between 1951 and 1968.
Selected filmography
* '' Ossessione'' (1943)
* ...
) as Ottavio Terenzi, padre di Marco
* '' Uomini e nobiluomini'' (1959, by Giorgio Bianchi) as Marchese Nicola Peccori Macinelli di Afragola
* ''
Vacanze d'inverno
''Winter Holidays'' ( it, Vacanze d'inverno) is a 1959 Italian comedy film directed by Camillo Mastrocinque and Giuliano Carnimeo (collaborating director), based on story by Oreste Biancoli. The music score is by Armando Trovajoli.
Cast
*Albert ...
'' (1959, by
Camillo Mastrocinque
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Luigi Capuano
Luigi Capuano (13 July 1904 – 20 October 1979) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. Born in Naples, he directed 43 films between 1947 and 1971.
Selected filmography
* '' Vertigine d'amore'' (1949)
* '' Flying Squadron'' (1949)
* ...
) as Director Pietro Giordani
* ''
Il moralista
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Roberto Rossellini
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) as Bardone AKA 'Grimaldi'
* ''
Ferdinando I, re di Napoli
''Ferdinando I, re di Napoli'' is a 1959 Italian comedy film directed by Gianni Franciolini.
Plot
Naples, 1806. The king Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies is frowned upon by the people, especially the comic theatrical Pulcinella, which continuall ...
'' (1959, by
Gianni Franciolini
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Life and career
Born in Florence, in 1929 he moved to Paris to study journalism; there he came ...
Piero Tellini
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Born in Florence, the son of the soprano Ines Alfani(the Soprano Opera singer for 10 years with Arturo Toscanini), Tellini graduated at the Centro ...
Mario Soldati
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Mario Bonnard
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Bonnard was born and died in Rome. He began his cinematic career as an actor becoming a popular romantic lead in numerous silent films made before World ...
) as The prince
* ''
The Angel Wore Red
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'' (1960, by
Nunnally Johnson
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Austerlitz Austerlitz may refer to:
History
* Battle of Austerlitz, an 1805 victory by the French Grand Army of Napoleon Bonaparte
Places
* Austerlitz, German name for Slavkov u Brna in the Czech Republic, which gave its name to the Battle of Austerlitz a ...
It Started in Naples
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'' (1960, by
Melville Shavelson
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Biog ...
Claude Boissol
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Selected filmography
* ''Three Boys, One Girl'' (1948)
* '' Th ...
) as Colonel Belalcazar
* ''
Le pillole di Ercole
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Cast
* Nino Manfredi as Dottor Pasqui
* Sylva Koscina ...
'' (1960, by
Luciano Salce
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) as Piero Cuocolo
* ''
The Millionairess
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Plot
By the ...
'' (1960, by
Anthony Asquith
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Luigi Zampa
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Biography
Son of a worker, Zampa studied filmmaking from 1932 to 1937 at the Italian film school Centro sperimentale di cinematografia in Rome.
He directed several ...
Dino Risi
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Biography
Risi was born in Milan. He had an o ...
) as Director
* ''
Gli attendenti
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Cast
* Vittorio De Sica: Colonel Filippo Bitossi
* Renato Rascel: Remigio De Acutis
* Dorian Gray: Lauretta
* Gino Cervi: Maggiore Penna
* Did ...
L'onorata società
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Cast
* Franco Franchi as Salvatore
* C ...
'' (1961, by
Riccardo Pazzaglia
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Born in Naples, Pazzaglia graduated in direction from the Centro Speri ...
Claude Autant-Lara
Claude Autant-Lara (; 5 August 1901 – 5 February 2000) was a French film director and later Member of the European Parliament (MEP).
Biography
Born at Luzarches in Val-d'Oise, Autant-Lara was educated in France and at London's Mill Hill Sc ...
) as L'ambassadeur d'Espagne
* '' The Last Judgment'' (1961, director) as Defense lawyer
* ''
The Wonders of Aladdin
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'' (1961, by
Mario Bava
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Gli incensurati
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'' (1961, by
Francesco Giaculli
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People with the given name Francesco
* Francesco I (disambiguation), seve ...
) as Colonnello Filippo Bitossi
* ''
I due marescialli
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'' (1961, by
Sergio Corbucci
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He is the older bro ...
) as Maresciallo Vittorio Cottone
* '' La Fayette'' (1962, by
Jean Dréville
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Selected filmography
* '' Autour de L'Argent'' (1928)
* ''A Man of Gold'' (1934)
* ''The Chess Player'' ( ...
) as Bancroft
* ''
Eva
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* Eva (name), a feminine given name
Arts, entertainment, and media Fictional characters
* Eva (Dynamite Entertainment), a comic book character by Dynamite Entertainment
* Eva (''Devil May Cry''), Dante's mother in t ...
Guidarino Guidi
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) (uncredited)
* ''
The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
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...
'' (1965, by
Terence Young Terence or Terry Young may refer to:
*Terence Young (director) (1915–1994), British film director
* Terence Young (politician) (born 1952), Canadian Conservative Party politician
* Terence Young (writer), Canadian writer
* Terry Young (American p ...
Alberto Sordi
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Early life
Born in Rome to a schoolteacher and a musician and the last of five children, Sordi was named in hon ...
) as Giuseppe's Father
* '' After the Fox'' (1966, director) as Himself (uncredited)
* ''
Gli altri, gli altri e noi
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The Biggest Bundle of Them All
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'' (1968, by
Ken Annakin
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The Thirteen Chairs
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* '' Trastevere'' (1971, by
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* '' The Small Miracle'' (1973, TV Movie, by
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Blood for Dracula
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'' (1974, by Ettore Scola) as Himself
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