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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.
- Film director, actor
- 1917–1974
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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Films by Vittorio De Sica. by alenzizak • Created 5 years ago • Modified 5 years ago. This list contains all films by Italian director Vittorio De Sica. Note #1:Boccaccio '70, Le Streghe and Le Coppie are made by many directors, one of them being De Sica. Note #2: Un monde nouveau is not on the list because it is very hard/impossible to ...
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It was also the first film he made with the writer Cesare Zavattini with whom he would subsequently make Shoeshine (1946) and Bicycle Thieves (1948), heartbreaking studies of poverty in postwar Italy which won special Oscars before the foreign film category was officially established.
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Mar 19, 1999 · The film, now being re-released in a new print to mark its 50s anniversay, was directed by Vittorio De Sica, who believed that everyone could play one role perfectly: himself. It was written by Cesare Zavattini, the writer associated with many of the great European directors of the 1940s through the 1970s.
Aug 8, 2015 · Though De Sica went on to work with Mastroianni and Montgomery Clift, Loren and Jennifer Jones, there are no film stars in his first masterpieces, those extraordinary works of the late 1940s...
1948 1h 29m Not Rated. 8.3 (176K) Rate. In post-war Italy, a working-class man's bicycle is stolen, endangering his efforts to find work. He and his son set out to find it. Director Vittorio De Sica Stars Lamberto Maggiorani Enzo Staiola Lianella Carell. 2. Umberto D. 1952 1h 29m Not Rated.
