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Vittorio De Sica ( / də ˈsiːkə / 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. Widely considered one of the most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema, four of the films he directed won Academy Awards ...
Vittorio De Sica. Director: Bicycle Thieves. Vittorio De Sica grew up in Naples, and started out as an office clerk in order to raise money to support his poor family. He was increasingly drawn towards acting, and made his screen debut while still in his teens, joining a stage company in 1923. By the late 1920s he was a successful matinee idol ...
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- Sora, Lazio, Italy
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- Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France
May 19, 2024 · Vittorio De Sica was an Italian film director and actor who first found fame as a matinee idol and who later was a major figure in the Italian Neorealist movement. He directed four masterpieces of the genre, including The Bicycle Thief (1948), which earned an Academy Award for best foreign film.
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Vittorio De Sica. Director: Bicycle Thieves. Vittorio De Sica grew up in Naples, and started out as an office clerk in order to raise money to support his poor family. He was increasingly drawn towards acting, and made his screen debut while still in his teens, joining a stage company in 1923. By the late 1920s he was a successful matinee idol of the Italian theatre, and repeated that ...
- July 7, 1901
- November 13, 1974
Aug 8, 2015 · While his 1960s sex comedy Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, is charming, Vittorio De Sica’s early films offer marvellous explorations of defeat. A forthcoming retrospective season shows how the ...
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Vittorio De Sica (7 July 1901 – 13 November 1974) was an Italian director and actor, a leading figure in the neorealist movement. Four of the films he directed won Academy Awards: Sciuscià and Bicycle Thieves (honorary), while Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow and Il giardino dei Finzi Contini won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Indeed, the great critical success of Sciuscià ...
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May 21, 2019 · The 40th Best Director of All-Time: Vittorio De Sica. De Sica. It feels late to finally be adding one of cinema’s great realists. Bicycle Thieves is an all-time film (14 th all-time on my top 500) and with Umberto D, Shoeshine and Two Women we have four top 500 films. This is the same amount as Rossellini (and De Sica is the one with a top ...