Country: Italy
Year: 1948
Duration: 93'


Biography

film director

Vittorio De Sica

Vittorio De Sica (Sora, Italy, 1901 - Neully-sur-Seine, Nanterre, France, 1974) began working as an amateur actor as a young boy and became a true star in the 1930s, in particular thanks to films by Mario Camerini like What Scoundrels Men Are!, Mister Max and Department Store. Alongside his career as an actor, he also became a director, debuting with Red Roses. He became one of the pillars of neorealism with films like Shoeshine and Bicycle Thieves (both of which received an Oscar) and continued to make successful movies like Two Women, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow and The Garden of the Finzi-Continis.

FILMOGRAFIA

Rose scarlatte (coregia/codirector Giuseppe Amato, mm, 1940), Maddalena... zero in condotta (1940), Teresa Venerdì (1941), I bambini ci guardano (1943), Sciuscià (1946), Ladri di biciclette (1948), Miracolo a Milano (1951), Umberto D. (1952), L’oro di Napoli (1954), Il tetto (1956), La ciociara (1960), Il giudizio universale (1961), Boccaccio ’70 (ep. La riffa, cm, 1962), Il boom (1963), Ieri, oggi, domani, (1963), Matrimonio all’italiana, (1964), Le streghe (ep. Una sera come le altre, cm, 1967), Il giardino dei Finzi Contini (1970), Lo chiameremo Andrea (1972), Una breve vacanza (1973), Il viaggio (1974).

Cast

& Credits

Director: Vittorio De Sica.
Plot: Cesare Zavattini, sullo spunto offerto dal romanzo di Luigi Bartolini.
Screenplay: Cesare Zavattini, Vittorio De Sica, Suso Cecchi D'Amico, Oreste Biancoli, Adolfo Franci, Gherardo Gherardi, Gerardo Guerrieri.
Director of photography: Carlo Montuori.
Scenogratia: Antonino Traverso.
Music: Alessandro Cicognini.
Editor: Eraldo Da Roma.
Cast and characters: Lamberto Maggiorani (Antonio Ricci), Enzo Stajola (Bruno, suo figlio), Lianella Carell (Maria Ricci), Elena Altieri (la patronessa di beneficenza), Giulio Saltamerenda (Baiocco), Vittorio Antonucci (il ladro), Giulio Chiari, Michele Sakara, Fausto Guerzoni, Carlo Jachino, Massimo Randisi, Umberto Spadaro, Ida Bracci Dorati (la santona), Memmo Carotenuto, Nando Bruno.
Production company: Vittorio De Sica per PDS.
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