Vittorio De Sica
Birthday: 1901-07-07
Place of Birth: Sora, Frosinone, Lazio, Italy
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.
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Twelve Plus One
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The Millionairess
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Working with De Sica
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Cinéma et Réalité
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If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium
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The Earrings of Madame de...
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Blood for Dracula
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Sophia Loren, a special destiny
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How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio
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The Traffic Policeman
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Teresa Venerdì
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Snow Job
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Il conte Max
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Maddalena, Zero for Conduct
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Bread, Love and Andalucia
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It Started in Naples
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What Scoundrels Men Are!
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Too Bad She's Bad
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The Assassination of Matteotti
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Amo te sola
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The Shoes of the Fisherman
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Totò, Vittorio and the Doctor
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1960
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A Farewell to Arms
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The Battle of Austerlitz
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The Miller's Beautiful Wife
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Nero's Mistress
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The Moralist
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Castles in the Air
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Gran varietà
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Domenica è sempre domenica
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Peddlin' in Society
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The Gold of Naples
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Scandal in Sorrento
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Bread, Love and Dreams
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The Sign of Venus
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Love in Rome
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Position Wanted
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The Two Marshals
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Frisky
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Ferdinand I King of Naples
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The Last Judgment
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Mister Max
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Me, Me, Me... and the Others
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The Anatomy of Love
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Winter Holidays
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The Biggest Bundle of Them All
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The Monte Carlo Story
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The Secrets of the Bed
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The Angel Wore Red
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An Italian in America
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Our Dreams
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Lost in the Dark
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Doctor and the Healer
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Sophia Loren in Rome
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Fathers and Sons
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Hanno rapito un uomo
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But It's Nothing Serious
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100 Years of Love
Six episodes (adapted from as many short stories: Gozzano, D'Annunzio, Guido Rocca, Marino Moretti, ...
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Holiday Island
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Paris Casino
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Noi siamo le colonne
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A Garibaldian in the Convent
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Ai vostri ordini, signora...
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I'll Give a Million
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Mafia Things
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Two Happy Hearts
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The Old Lady
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Department Store
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La donna che venne dal mare
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The Adventuress from the Floor Above
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Vittorio D.
A documentary about Vittorio de Sica with clips of his films and testimonials from friends and famil...
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Hello Elephant
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Hector the Mighty
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Dear Caroline
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Lohengrin
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The Clemenceau Affair
The Clemenceau Affair (Italian: Il processo Clémenceau) is a 1917 silent Italian adventure film dire...
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My Wife's Enemy
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No One Comes Back
A host of college girls take different life paths in the Italy of the 1930s....
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That's Life: Vittorio De Sica
Documentary about the life and career of Italian film director Vittorio De Sica....
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The Wonders of Aladdin
Young Aladdin has a series of wild adventures after he discovers a magic lamp containing a genie....
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It Happens in Roma
Airy comedy of a man a woman and the lengths they'll go to for a really great apartment! Located in ...
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Love and Chatter
Maria and Paul love them, but they are very young and, moreover, Maria is the daughter of the munici...
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Il mondo vuole così
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Lo sbaglio di essere vivo
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Gastone
During the period between world wars, vaudeville sketches were popular before film showings.Gastone ...
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The Orderly
Colonels, majors, lieutenants: all of them live in the same building. Some of them have a wife or ch...
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Gli altri, gli altri e noi
An unemployed youth tries different jobs such as waiter, hairdresser, porter, salesman and when desp...
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Venetian Honeymoon
There is a lot of excitement in the high society of Venice: An Arab prince, who always travels incog...
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It Happened in Rome
Three girls are on a hitchhiking trip through northern Italy, the riviera, Venice, Pisa and Rome....
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The Guilty
Valerio Rossello is a judge, with a rigid and uncompromising mentality. He is married to Lucia, a wo...
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If I Was Honest
The nephew of a wealthy nobleman, convicted for a forged check, is replaced in prison by a poor engi...
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Time of Vacation
Holiday time in Corniolo, a resort 40 kilometres from Rome. In a recently opened hotel various chara...
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Un sorriso, uno schiaffo, un bacio in bocca
Anthological movie with some of the most famous movie sequences in Italian cinema produced by glorio...
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Fast and Sexy
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The Garden That Doesn't Exist
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The Sinner
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Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
Cinecitta is today known as the center of the Italian film industry. But there is a dark past. The f...
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Long Live Henry IV... Long Live Love!
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We Are All in Temporary Liberty
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Scandal Man
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Unknown Men of San Marino
A mysterious man, who had lost his memory, arrives in San Marino among other refugees during the Sec...
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I Don't Know You Anymore
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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,...
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Christmas at Camp 119
Second World War . Field 119 in California (USA ) . War is long over , but the Italian Prisoners Sti...
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The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
A bawdy story of how a poor damsel surrenders her virtue again and again to get to the top of societ...
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Das Lied der Sonne
Impresario Adler is imprisoned for insulting an official and therefore unable to negotiate an import...
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Lafayette
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Storia de fratelli e de cortelli
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The Inveterate Bachelor
Marcello is engaged to Gina, the daughter of the boarding house where he lives, but he is undecided ...
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The Girl of San Pietro Square
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The Adventures of Pinocchio
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Cinéastes de notre temps : Max Ophuls ou la ronde
A 1965 episode of the French television program Cinéastes de notre temps, featuring interviews with ...
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Il mondo dei miracoli
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Tomorrow Is Too Late
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Heart
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Il matrimonio
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Man of Three Worlds: Luchino Visconti
BBC television program exploring Visconti’s mastery of cinema, theater, and opera direction....
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My Name Is Anna Magnani
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The Honored Society
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The Cheerful Squadron
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Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema
A documentary about the Italian cinema as art form and industry....
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The Cuckoo Clock
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Nel blu dipinto di blu
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Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
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Le pillole di Ercole
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Rome: Free City
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Manon Lescaut
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General Della Rovere
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Trastevere
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Three Etc.'s and the Colonel
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I Don't See, You Don't Speak, He Doesn't Hear
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Policarpo, ufficiale di scrittura
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Men and Noblemen
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Eva
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Modern Virgin
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It Happened in the Park
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Roman Tales
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The Bigamist
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La compagnia dei matti
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Orson Welles at Large: Portrait of Gina
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Pazza di gioia
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The Small Miracle
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We All Loved Each Other So Much
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Viaggia, ragazza, viaggia, hai la musica nelle vene
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Lionpower from MGM
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After the Fox
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