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Vittorio De Sica (July 7 1901 - November 13 1974) was an Italian neorealist director and actor.

Life
Natural into poverty in Sora (Frosinone), he began his career as a theatre actor in the early 1920s and joined Tatiana Pavlova's theatre company in 1923.

Around 1933 he founded his own company by using his married woman Giuditta Rissone and Sergio Tofano. A company performed mostly lightly comedies, but it besides staged plays by Beaumarchais, and worked sustaining renowned directors such as Luchino Visconti.

His meeting by owning Cesare Zavattini was a crucial event: it wrote together a few of the virtually all celebrated films of the neorealistic age, like Sciuscià (Shoeshine) and Ladri di biciclette (The Bicycle Thieves).

One of his right-received is La Ciociara (Two Women) (1961): Sophia Loren won the Oscar for her performance, and critics widely regard the film a classic. De Sica died around Paris on November 13, 1974.

Selected filmography
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) ''L'oro di Napoli (The Gold of Naples) (1954) 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)

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Vittorio De Sica
Sony Pictures' biography of "one of the world's most influential filmmakers."

Vittorio De Sica
Biography and filmography from the Internet Movie Database.

Vittorio de Sica
Synopses of seven of the director's film including "The Bicycle Thief" and "Umberto D".

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Strictly Film School looks at three of the director's films.


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