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Hailed around the world as one of the greatest movies ever made, the Academy Award–winning Bicycle Thieves, directed by Vittorio De Sica, defined an era in cinema. In poverty-stricken postwar Rome, a man is on his first day of a new job that offers hope of salvation for his desperate family when his bicycle, which he needs for work, is stolen. With his young son in tow, he sets off to track ...
Feb 12, 2007 · Viewed in retrospect, much of modern cinema can seem to flow from twin fountainheads: Orson Welles’s Citizen Kane (1941) and Vittorio De Sica’s Bicycle Thieves (1948). Though separated by World War II, the two movies symbolize the cardinal impulses that came to captivate serious audiences, critics, and filmmakers after the war. The tendencies they signaled—ones soon fused into a singular ...
Vittorio De Sica var skådespelare i charmörfacket innan han sadlade om och blev regissör. Först 1940 debuterade han som filmregissör och han brukar nämnas som pionjär för den italienska neorealismen. Hans filmer präglas av en kämpande humanism och djup medkänsla med arbetarklassen. I sin filmstil har han strävat efter att förena de ...
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.
Nov 3, 2020 · Together, poor besotted Giorgio and the exquisitely unattainable Micòl are the non-lovers in Vittorio de Sica’s The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, his profoundly disturbing and mysterious 1970 ...
Vittorio De Sica, (born July 7, 1902, Sora, Italy—died Nov. 13, 1974, Paris, France), Italian film director and actor. He joined an acting company in 1923 and soon became a matinee idol. He appeared on screen as a leading man in a series of light comedies, and he excelled in a dramatic role in Roberto Rossellini’s General della Rovere (1959).
Vittorio De Sica (* 7. Juli 1901 in Sora, Italien; † 13. November 1974 in Neuilly-sur-Seine bei Paris) war ein italienischer Schauspieler und Filmregisseur des Neorealismus; ab 1968 war er auch französischer Staatsbürger. [1] Sein Film Fahrraddiebe aus dem Jahr 1948 gilt unter Filmkritikern als einer der besten Filme aller Zeiten.
