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.

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.

Vittorio De Sica's 1948 film Bicycle Thieves is also representative of the genre, with non-professional actors, and a story that details the hardships of working-class life after the war.

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* Manon Lescaut ( 1940 ), directed by Carmine Gallone, with Vittorio de Sica and Alida Valli

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

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.

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

* Shoeshine ( Vittorio De Sica, 1946 )

* Bicycle Thieves ( Vittorio De Sica, 1948 )

* Miracle in Milan ( Vittorio De Sica, 1951 )

# Prince Vittorio Amedeo Theodore of Savoy ( 1723 – 1725 ) died in infancy ;

Dirk Hamer died of his wounds on 7 December 1978, and Vittorio Emanuele was arrested.

One photograph, " Cookie and Vittorio's Wedding " ( 1986 ), documents Mueller's wedding to Vittorio Scarpati, an Italian artist and jewelry designer from Naples who died of AIDS just seven weeks before Mueller.

His father, Vittorio Veltroni, an eminent RAI manager in the 1950s, died only one year later.

Among the major artistic films of this era were La città delle donne, E la nave va, Ginger and Fred by Fellini, L ' albero degli zoccoli by Ermanno Olmi ( winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival ), La notte di San Lorenzo by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, Antonioni's Identificazione di una donna, and Bianca and La messa è finita by Nanni Moretti.

The Piazza ( first renamed Piazza Vittorio Emmanuele II, then Piazza della Repubblica, the present name ) was significantly widened and a large triumphal arch was constructed at the west end.

Lloyd George represented Britain at the Versailles Peace Conference, clashing with French Premier Georges Clemenceau, U. S. President Woodrow Wilson and Italian Prime Minister Vittorio Orlando.

* 1997: Award for collaborating director – director of photography ( Vittorio Storaro ) at Camerimage

Largely prevented from writing about politics ( the editor-in-chief of the magazine was Vittorio Mussolini, son of Benito Mussolini ), the critics attacked the white telephone films that dominated the industry at the time.

New roads are opened, including the way of King Ferdinand ( now Via Vittorio Emanuele ), in 1842 the Bridge of Lions is erected near the old Roman bridge Arena ; installed gas lighting at night.

And the Iron Crown at Monza has remained there permanently, with two exceptions: in 1878, when, in Rome, it was placed on the coffin of Vittorio Emanuele II and during the two world wars when it was held in the Vatican.

After an 11-year engagement, Vittorio Emanuele married Swiss biscuit heiress and world-ranked water skier Marina Ricolfi-Doria in Tehran on 7 October 1971, at the occasion of the 2, 500 year celebration of Iran's monarchy.

Vittorio Emanuele also dropped his case at the European Court of Human Rights.

They stay at the villa of Corleone family friend Don Tommasino ( Vittorio Duse ).

The Italian Admiral also learned that Formidable was at sea thanks to the decryption team aboard Vittorio Veneto.

On 28 March, an IMAM Ro. 43 floatplane launched by Vittorio Veneto spotted the British cruiser squadron at 06: 35.

Other revivals of Spontini include Agnes von Hohenstaufen at the Maggio Musicale festival in Florence in 1954, starring Franco Corelli and conducted by Vittorio Gui, and in Rome in 1970, with Montserrat Caballé and Antonietta Stella, conducted by Riccardo Muti.

In 1980, de Cesaris was then picked up by Alfa Romeo for the final events of the 1980 World Championship, replacing Vittorio Brambilla who had, in turn, replaced Patrick Depailler when he was killed testing at Hockenheim.

The Big Four ( World War I ) | The " Big Four " at the Treaty of Versailles: David Lloyd George, Vittorio Emanuele Orlando, Georges Clemenceau and Woodrow Wilson.

Every year, the Concorso Nazionale Corale " Trofei Città di Vittorio Veneto " takes place at Vittorio Veneto.

That year Agostinho rode the world professional road championship at Imola, while still an amateur, and came 16th after initiating the move which brought victory for the Italian, Vittorio Adorni.

Attempts at renovation took place during the second half of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th, when the European tendencies penetrated into the country, reflected in numerous important buildings of Buenos Aires, such as the Santa Felicitam Church, by Ernesto Bunge ; the Central Post Office and Palace of Justice, by Norbert Maillart ; and the National Congress and the Colón Opera House, by Vittorio Meano.

*: Mons, Le Cateau, Retreat from Mons, Marne 1914 and 1918, Aisne 1914, La Bassée 1914, Ypres 1914, 1915 and 1917, Nonne Bosschen, Hill 60, Gravenstafel, St. Julien, Aubers, Somme 1916 and 1918, Albert 1916 and 1918, Bazentin, Delville Wood, Pozières, Flers-Courcelette, Morval, Thiepval, Le Transloy, Ancre Heights, Arras 1917 and 1918, Scarpe 1917 and 1918, Arleux, Bullecourt, Messines 1917 and 1918, Langemarck 1917, Menin Road, Polygon Wood, Broodseinde, Poelcappelle, Passchendaele, Cambrai 1917 and 1918, St Quentin, Ancre 1918, Lys, Estaires, Hazebrouck, Bailleul, Kemmel, Bethune, Scherpenberg, Tardenois, Amiens, Bapaume 1918, Drocourt-Quéant, Hindenburg Line, Havrincourt, Épehy, Canal du Nord, Selle, Valenciennes, Sambre, France and Flanders 1914-18, Piave, Vittorio Veneto, Italy 1917-18, Suvla, Landing at Suvla, Scimitar Hill, Gallipoli 1915, Egypt 1916

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 ).