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In 1935, he met Vittorio De Sica, beginning a partnership that produced some twenty films, including such masterpieces of Italian neorealism as Sciuscià (1946), Ladri di biciclette (1948), Miracolo a Milano (1951), and Umberto D. (1952).
Cesare Zavattini. Writer: Bicycle Thieves. Cesare Zavattini was born on 20 September 1902 in Luzzara, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. He was a writer and director, known for Bicycle Thieves (1948), Umberto D. (1952) and It's Forever Springtime (1950). He was married to Olga Berni. He died on 13 October 1989 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
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His first film treatment became Mario Camerini’s classic social satire, Darò un milione (1935; “I’ll Give a Million”), starring Vittorio De Sica. Zavattini completed 126 screenplays during his long career, 26 of which were for films directed by De Sica.
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Adapted for the screen by Cesare Zavattini from the 1946 novel by Luigi Bartolini, and starring Lamberto Maggiorani as the desperate father and Enzo Staiola as his plucky young son, Bicycle Thieves received an Academy Honorary Award (most outstanding foreign language film) in 1950, and in 1952 was deemed the greatest film of all time by Sight ...
Sep 22, 2020 · “The cinema,” claims screenwriter Cesare Zavattini, the chief theorist of what came to be known as Italian neorealism in the early 1950s, “has always felt the ‘natural’ and practically ...
Once invested with an attentive eye and ear, the most ordinary reality becomes extraordinary and revelatory, an infinite repertory of images “worth narrating in every moment.”. In Luzzara, Zavattini’s family ran an elegant café and pastry shop in the center of town.
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Sep 18, 2021 · Zavattini’s take on Matera. Being a teenager in Rome during the post-war years, Zavattini was influenced by the neorealist movement and that influence remained present during the multi-decade span of his career.
