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Vittorio De Sica
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Vittorio De Sica (July 7, 1901 - November 13, 1974) was an Italian neorealist director and actor.
Born into poverty in Sora (Frosinone), near Rome, he began his career as a theatre actor in the early 1920s and joined Tatiana Pavlova's theatre company in 1923.
In 1933 he founded his own company with his wife Giuditta Rissone and Sergio Tofano. The company performed mostly light comedies, but they also staged plays by Beaumarchais, and worked with famous directors like Luchino Visconti.
His meeting with Cesare Zavattini was a very important event: together they created some of the most celebrated films of the neorealistic age, like Sciuscià (Shoeshine) and Ladri di biciclette (The Bicycle Thieves), both of which de Sica directed.
One of his best-received films is La Ciociara (Two Women) (1961), based on the novel by Alberto Moravia: Sophia Loren won the Oscar for her performance, and critics widely regard the film a classic. De Sica died in Paris on November 13, 1974.
- Gli uomini che mascalzoni (1932)
- Il signor Max (1937)
- Rose scarlatte (1939)
- Grandi magazzini (1939)
- Maddalena, zero in condotta (1940)
- Teresa Venerdì (1941)
- I bambini ci guardano (The Children Are Watching Us) (1942)
- Sciuscià (Shoeshine) (1946)
- Ladri di biciclette (Bicycle Thieves) (1948)
- Miracolo a Milano (Miracle in Milan) (1951)
- Umberto D. (1952)
- Pane, amore e fantasia (Bread, Love and Dreams) (1953)
- L'oro di Napoli (The Gold of Naples) (1954)
- The Monte Carlo Story (1957)
- La Ciociara (Two Women) (1961)
- Boccaccio '70 (segment La riffa) (1962)
- Ieri, oggi e domani (Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow) (1963)
- Matrimonio all'italiana (Marriage Italian-Style) (1964)
- Caccia alla volpe (After the Fox) (1966)
- Il Giardino dei Finzi-Contini (The Garden of the Finzi-Continis) (1970)
- Una Breve vacanza (A Brief Vacation) (1973)
- Il Viaggio (The Voyage) (1974)
- Vittorio De Sica at the Internet Movie Database
- They Shoot Pictures, Don't They?
- Vittorio De Sica director bio for The Garden of the Finzi-Continis Sony Pictures Entertainment website, retrieved April 8, 2006
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