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Vittorio De Sica (/ d ə ˈ s iː k ə / də SEE-kə, Italian: [vitˈtɔːrjo de ˈsiːka]; 7 July 1901 – 13 November 1974) was an Italian film director and actor, a leading figure in the neorealist movement.
Bicycle Thieves (Italian: Ladri di biciclette), also known as The Bicycle Thief, [5] is a 1948 Italian neorealist drama film directed by Vittorio De Sica. [6] It follows the story of a poor father searching in post-World War II Rome for his stolen bicycle, without which he will lose the job which was to be the salvation of his young family.
Terminal Station was the first Hollywood film of Italian director De Sica, as an international co-production with American mogul David O. Selznick. The collaboration was fraught with constant and severe creative differences between them that resulted in two different versions of the same film, an 89 minute Italian version and a 72 minute ...
Vittorio De Sica is an Italian film director. Pages in category "Films directed by Vittorio De Sica" The following 35 pages are in this category, out of 35 total.
De Sica's interest in the project surprised Simon, who at first dismissed it as a way for the director to support his gambling habit. But De Sica saw an opportunity to make a social statement about how the pursuit of money corrupts even the arts. Simon believed that De Sica also relished the opportunity to take potshots at the Italian film ...
The abbreviation is not always a short form of the word used in the clue. For example: "Knight" for N (the symbol used in chess notation) Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE.
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Italian: Il giardino dei Finzi Contini) is a 1970 historical war drama film directed by Vittorio De Sica.The screenplay by Ugo Pirro and Vittorio Bonicelli adapts Italian Jewish author Giorgio Bassani's 1962 semi-autobiographical novel, about the lives of an upper-class Jewish family in Ferrara during the Fascist era.
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (Italian: Ieri, oggi, domani) is a 1963 comedy anthology film directed by Vittorio De Sica. [3] Starring Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni, the film consists of three short stories about couples in different parts of Italy. The film won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 37th Academy Awards ...