Poetry and cruelty of life were harmonically combined in the works that Vittorio De Sica wrote and directed together with screenwriter Cesare Zavattini: among them, Shoeshine ( 1946 ), The Bicycle Thief ( 1948 ) and Miracle in Milan ( 1951 ).

Italy has produced many important cinematography auteurs, including Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, Roberto Rossellini, Vittorio De Sica, Ettore Scola, Sergio Leone, Dario Argento, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Bernardo Bertolucci, Franco Zeffirelli, Mario Bava, Sergio Corbucci, Lucio Fulci, Mario Monicelli, Marco Ferreri, Elio Petri, Ermanno Olmi, Umberto Lenzi, Lina Wertmüller, and Luchino Visconti.

In 1961 Sophia Loren won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as a woman who is raped in World War II, along with her adolescent daughter, in Vittorio De Sica's Two Women.

* 1901 – Vittorio De Sica, Italian director ( d. 1974 )

In May 2010, Loach told Tom Lamont in an interview about the three films that have influenced him most: Vittorio De Sica's Bicycle Thieves ( 1948 ), Milos Forman's Loves of a Blonde ( 1965 ) and Gillo Pontecorvo's Battle of Algiers ( 1966 ).

From left: Salvo Cuccia, Martin Scorsese and Vittorio De Seta at the Tribeca Film Festival | 2005 Tribeca Film Festival.

Vittorio De Sica ( 7 July 1901 or 1902 – 13 November 1974 ) was an Italian director and actor, a leading figure in the neorealist movement.

Vittorio De Sica died at 73 after a surgery at the Neuilly-sur-Seine hospital in Paris.

Roma, città aperta directed by Roberto Rossellini ( 1945 ), Sciuscià directed by Vittorio De Sica ( 1946 ), Paisà directed by Roberto Rossellini ( 1946 ), La terra trema directed by Luchino Visconti ( 1948 ), The Bicycle Thief directed by Vittorio De Sica ( 1948 ), and Bitter Rice directed by Giuseppe De Santis ( 1949 ), are some well-known examples.

* November 13 – Vittorio De Sica, Italian film director ( b. 1901 )

An important point to note is that out of Scorsese's selection of Italian films from a select group of directors ( Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti, Vittorio De Sica, Michelangelo Antonioni ) Rossellini's films form at least half of the films discussed and analyzed, highlighting Rossellini's monumental role in Italian and world cinema.

He also worked with directors such as Vittorio De Sica and Roberto Rossellini.

She was the first actress of the talkie era to win an Academy Award for a non-English-speaking performance, for her portrayal of Cesira in Vittorio De Sica's Two Women.

After playing the lead role in Two Nights with Cleopatra ( 1953 ), her breakthrough role was in The Gold of Naples ( 1954 ), directed by Vittorio De Sica.

In 1961, she starred in Vittorio De Sica's Two Women, a stark, gritty story of a mother who is raped while trying to protect her daughter in war-torn Italy.

Among Loren's best-known films of this period are Samuel Bronston's epic production of El Cid ( 1961 ) with Charlton Heston, The Millionairess ( 1960 ) with Peter Sellers, It Started in Naples ( 1960 ) with Clark Gable, Vittorio De Sica's triptych Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow ( 1963 ) with Marcello Mastroianni, Peter Ustinov's Lady L ( 1965 ) with Paul Newman, the 1966 classic Arabesque with Gregory Peck, and Charlie Chaplin's final film, A Countess from Hong Kong ( 1967 ) with Marlon Brando.

In 1935, he met Vittorio De Sica, beginning a partnership that produced some two dozen films, including such masterpieces of Italian neorealism as

He worked with other famous actors and directors: Dario Niccodemi ( 1924-1927 ); Luigi Almirante and Giuditta Rissone ( 1927-1930 ), Elsa Merlini, Vittorio De Sica, Evi Maltagliati, Gino Cervi etc.

The town of Ferrara was also the setting of the famous film The Garden of the Finzi-Continis by Vittorio De Sica in ( 1970 ), that tells the vicissitudes of a rich Jewish family during the dictatorship of Benito Mussolini and World War II.

It also influenced several Indian film directors including Bimal Roy, who made Do Bigha Zameen ( 1955 ), after watching Vittorio De Sica's Bicycle Thieves ( 1948 ).

In addition to the threat of television, there was also increasing competition from foreign films, such as Vittorio De Sica's Bicycle Thieves ( 1948 ), the Swedish film Hon dansade en sommar ( English title: One Summer of Happiness ) ( 1951 ), and Ingmar Bergman's Sommaren med Monika ( Summer with Monika ) ( 1953 ).

Inspired by Italian neo-realistic cinema, Bimal Roy made Do Bigha Zameen after watching, Vittorio De Sica's Bicycle Thieves ( 1948 ).

Satyajit Ray cited Italian filmmaker Vittorio De Sica's Bicycle Thieves ( 1948 ) and French filmmaker Jean Renoir's The River ( 1951 ), which he assisted, as influences on his debut film Pather Panchali ( 1955 ).

He won the Grand Prix du Festival at the Cannes Film Festival twice: in 1946 for Iris and the Lieutenant () ( part of an eleven-way tie ), and in 1951 for his film Miss Julie () ( an adaption of the August Strindberg's play which tied with Vittorio De Sica's Miracle in Milan ).

He wrote, " Again the Italians have sent us a brilliant and devastating film in Vittorio De Sica's rueful drama of modern city life, The Bicycle Thief.

Vittorio de Sica's Umberto D, which depicted the lonely life of a retired man, could only strike government officials as a dangerous throwback, due to the opening scene featuring police breaking up a demonstration of old pensioners and the ending scene featuring Umberto's aborted suicide attempt.

Perhaps the best example of this was in Vittorio De Sica's 1952 film Umberto D ...

Inspired by Italian neo-realistic cinema, he made Do Bigha Zameen after watching, Vittorio De Sica's Bicycle Thieves ( 1948 ).

Vittorio De Sica's 1971 film adaptation stars Lino Capolicchio as Giorgio ( the narrator ) and Dominique Sanda as Micòl.

One film that had a lasting impression on Panahi was Vittorio De Sica's Bicycle Thieves.

Working in Italian cinematography, he began as an assistant to Vittorio de Sica during the movie Bicycle Thieves in 1948.

* Bicycle Thieves ( Vittorio De Sica, 1948 )

* 1948: Ladri di biciclette, regìa di Vittorio De Sica ( voce del venditore di biciclette a Porta Portese, attore non identificato )

Bicycle Thieves (), also known as The Bicycle Thief, is a 1948 Italian neorealist film directed by Vittorio De Sica.

Carrozzeria Touring traces its roots to the 1926 purchase of a controlling interest in the Milan based coachbuilder, Carrozzeria Falco, by Milanese lawyers Felice Bianchi Anderloni ( 1882 – 1948 ) and Gaetano Ponzoni from Carrozeria Falco's founder, Vittorio Ascar.

Vittorio Bertazzoni founded the company in the village in 1948 and the company still remains in the private ownership of the Bertazzoni family.

* Vittorio Bertazzoni founded Smalterie Metallurgiche Emiliane Guastall ( Smeg ) in the village in 1948 as a metal enamelling factory.

Octopamine was first discovered by Italian scientist Vittorio Erspamer in 1948 in the salivary glands of the octopus and has since been found to act as a neurotransmitter, neurohormone and neuromodulator in invertebrates.

* Party Leader in the Chamber of Deputies: Vittorio Emanuele Orlando ( 1946 ), Luigi Einaudi ( 1946 ), Francesco Saverio Nitti ( 1946 – 1947 ), Epicarmo Corbino ( 1947 – 1948 ), Raffaele De Caro ( 1948 – 1961 ), Giovanni Malagodi ( 1961 – 1971 ), Aldo Bozzi ( 1971 – 1987 ), Paolo Battistuzzi ( 1987 – 1993 ), Savino Melillo ( 1993 – 1994 )

* Bicycle Thieves ( 1948 ), directed by Vittorio De Sica

* Kaos ( film ), a 1984 Italian film directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani

In 1940, Antonioni moved to Rome, where he worked for Cinema, the official Fascist film magazine edited by Vittorio Mussolini.

Her most famous novel was Madame de ..., published in 1951, which was adapted into the celebrated film The Earrings of Madame de ... ( 1953 ), directed by Max Ophüls and starring Charles Boyer, Danielle Darrieux and Vittorio de Sica.

Vittorio Gassman, Knight Grand Cross, OMRI ( born Vittorio Gassmann ; 1 September 1922 – 29 June 2000 ), popularly known as Il Mattatore, was an Italian theatre and film actor and director.

It was made into a film by Vittorio de Sica in 1970.

The 2012 Italian drama film Caesar Must Die (), directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, follows convicts in their rehearsals ahead of a prison performance of Julius Caesar.

Vittorio de Sica directed the film Il Judizio Finale with Katy, Ernest Borgnine, Vittorio Gassman, Silvana Mangano and Melina Mercouri.

He appeared also in Stanley Kramer's Not as a Stranger ( 1955 ), " the worst film with the best cast "; and he even tried the European sword and sandal films in Vittorio Cotaffavi's La vendetta di Ercole ( 1960 ) also known in USA as Goliath and the Dragon.

In 1941, Magnani starred in Teresa Venerdì, ( Friday Theresa ) which the writer and director, Vittorio De Sica, called Magnani's " first true film ".

Two Women (, roughly translated as " Woman from Ciociaria ") is a 1960 Italian film directed by Vittorio De Sica.

Marriage Italian-Style () is a 1964 film by Vittorio De Sica that tells the World War II era story of a cynical, successful businessman named Domenico ( Mastroianni ), who, after meeting a naive country girl, Filomena ( Loren ), one night in a Neapolitan brothel, keeps frequenting her for years in an on-off relationship ( as she continues working as a prostitute ).

His half-sister, the actress María Mercader, was the second wife of Italian film director Vittorio De Sica.

Just then, film star Vittorio Vidal rushes out of the smart Pompeii Club, in pursuit of his beautiful mistress, Ursula.

After the Fox () is a 1966 British-Italian comedy film starring Peter Sellers and directed by Vittorio De Sica.

Peter Sellers said that his main reason for doing the film was the chance to work with Vittorio De Sica.