Vittorio De Sica
Directing
Biography
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 (the first foreign film to be so recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences) and Bicycle Thieves helped establish the permanent Best Foreign Film Award. These two films are considered part of the canon of classic cinema. Bicycle Thieves was cited by Turner Classic Movies as one of the 15 most influential films in cinema history. De Sica was also nominated for the 1957 Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for playing Major Rinaldi in American director Charles Vidor's 1957 adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, a movie that was panned by critics and proved a box office flop. De Sica's acting was considered the highlight of the film.
Born: July 7, 1901
Place of Birth: Sora, Frosinone, Lazio, Italy
Known For
We Are Cinema
An Italian documentary about Italian cinema.
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Angel in a Taxi
Marietto is a very lively and creative orphaned child, housed in a boarding school of nuns. One day, while browsing a newspaper, he sees a photo of a beautiful opera house dancer, Camilla, and is convinced that she is her mother.
We All Loved Each Other So Much
Three partisans bound by a strong friendship return home after the war, but the clash with everyday reality puts a strain on their bond.
Position Wanted
Maria is a housmaid and she is being engaged to Berto for fifteen years. Berto has not a lasting job so he is waiting for the death of his uncle Matteo to come into an inheritance. In the meantime Maria goes on with her work, first in the house of an unfaithful wife; then for an actor and his wife on the verge of leaving each other and last for Raffaele who wants to marry her. At last uncle Matteo dies...
Belmondo: The Incorrigible
Charismatic and resourceful, seducer and daredevil, Jean-Paul Belmondo has always played his roles as he lived, at a thousand miles an hour. He had only one passion: to entertain the public with his smile, his naturalness, his energy, his stunts. But contrary to appearances, his destiny was full of pitfalls. This film lifts the veil on a founding childhood that allowed him to overcome many obstacles throughout his life thanks to the tutelary figures of his father and mother. Told from the inside with the help of his autobiography, interviews and unpublished archives, this epic story traces the career of this turbulent young actor who launched the New Wave in Breathless before becoming the popular Bebel, an indestructible and provocative vigilante. From film to film, this documentary paints an intimate portrait of a man who built himself up to reach the top: his triumphs but also his trials, his doubts, his secrets, his angers, his clowning, his disappointments or his personal dramas.
If I Was Honest
The nephew of a wealthy nobleman, convicted for a forged check, is replaced in prison by a poor engineer. From the exchange of people derives a chain of misunderstandings and messes that ends out well.
My Name Is Anna Magnani
Traces the life of Anna Magnani, her creations, her successes, her triumphs, her boycotted career, her nonconformism, her anxieties, her generosity ... Punctuated with photos that tell her career in theater and cinema, Extracts of films, this documentary portrait also gives the floor to his friends and relatives, from Roberto Rossellini to Marcello Mastroianni, through Federico Fellini.
Cinépanorama
The Adventures of Pinocchio
Mastro Geppetto is a poor carpenter with no wife and no children. The man is very lonely, and after trading a piece of wood with his colleague Mastro Ciliegia, decides to build himself a puppet to keep him company.
Filmography
as Self (archive footage)
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as (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Marquis Di Fiore
as Mauro Del Giudice
as Maresciallo Cenciarelli
as Father Damico
as giudice
as Giudice
as Milord
as Enrico Dolphi
as Giove
as Giuseppe Mancini 'Pulcinella'
as Enrico Formichi
as Player in Venice casino
as Don Michele
as Di Seta
as Shoemaker
as Cardinal Rinaldi
as Le comte de Bièvre
as Cesare Celli
as Lando Marossi
as Self - Cesare Celli (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Self
as Retired
as Vittorio De Sica (uncredited)
as Self - Interviewee
as Commendator Trepossi
as der Graf
as (uncredited)
as Bancroft
as Maresciallo Vittorio Cotone
as Colonnello Filippo Bitossi
as Genie
as Defense lawyer
as Ambassador of Spain
as Salvatore il 'Capintesta'
as le réalisateur
as Il sindaco
as Joe
as Colonel Piero Cuocolo
as Colonel Belalcazar
as Mario Vitale
as le pape Pie VII
as General Clave
as The Prince
as Seccano
as Bardone AKA 'Grimaldi'
as Ricco Poccari
as O.I.M.P. President
as Director Pietro Giordani
as Maurizio
as marchese Nicola Peccoli Macinelli di Afragola
as professor Ottavio Tornabuoni
as Il prestigiatore con il piccione (uncredited)
as Spartaco
as Alfredo
as Tonino
as Armando Conforti
as Il professore
as Ernesto de Rossi, Kapitän
as Don Luigi
as Il 'comandante' Gastaldi
as Avvocato Bonelli
as Marchese Vittorio De Vittti
as Engineer Occhipinti
as Major Rinaldi
as Antonio Locoratolo
as Console Bordogin
as Alexander Gordy
as Conte Max Orsini Varaldo
as The Count
as Giorgio Vasari
as Vincenzo Corallo
as Alfredo Celimontani, il guitto squattrinato
as Count Dino della Fiaba
as Aristide Rossi
as Seneca
as Honorable Prince / Attorney Prince
as Self
as Maresciallo Carotenuto
as Mazzoni Baralla - the lawyer
as Don Teofilo - governatore
as Carlo Reani
as Alessio Spano
as Vittorio Stroppiani
as Maresciallo Carotenuto
as General
as Il conte Prospero B. (segment "I giocatori")
as Antonio Valli
as Roberto (segment "Divorce, Le")
as Conte Ferdinando / Don Corradino Scognamiglio
as Veneziani
as Duke Giovanni del Bagno aka Signor Pallini (segment "Pendolin")
as Gregory Stefanovich Smirnov
as Maresciallo Carotenuto
as Arturo Cavazzuti - the lawyer (segment: Incidente a Villa Borghese)
as Baron Fabrizio Donati
as Defense Advocate (segment "Il processo di Frine")
as Carlo Caretti
as Leonardo Leonardi
as Professor Landi
as Master Perboni
as Leo, l'ateo
as Don Vicenzino
as Carmine
as Il conte Ghirani
as Il signore distinto
as Paolo Morelli
as Adriano Lari
as Maurizio
as Leo
as Riccardo, investigatore privato
as Nino Bixio
as Pietro Kovach
as Dott. Pietro Vignali
as Fabrizio Marchini
as Alfredo Hartman
as Alberto Verani
as Conte Corrado Valli
as Renato Des Grieux
as Pietro Bandelli
as Alberto Milnar
as Bruno Zacchi
as Pietro Haguet
as Salvatore
as L'attore cinematografico
as Stefano San Mauro / Il figlio di San Mauro
as Mario Esposito
as Gianni / Max Varaldo
as Pio Fardella
as Memmo Speranza
as Il dottore Alberto Spinelli
as Alfredo
as Giovanni
as Gold
as Il professore Giacomo Banti
as Paladino, l'avvocato
as Dr. Giuseppe Paladino
as Fritz Peters
as Willy
as Bruno
as Mr. Brown
as Fine dicitore
as Prof. Rosolillo
as Pierre Clémenceau bambino