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  De Sica

  noun

  Vittorio 1901–74, Italian motion-picture director, producer, and actor.
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  de Sica

  noun

  Vittorio (vitˈtɔːrjo). 1902–74, Italian film actor and director. His films, in the neorealist tradition, include Shoeshine (1946) and Bicycle Thieves (1948)

De Sica

American  

[duh see-kuh, de see-kah] / də ˈsi kə, dɛ ˈsi kɑ /

noun

1. Vittorio 1901–74, Italian motion-picture director, producer, and actor.

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de Sica British  

/ de ˈsiːka /

noun

1. Vittorio (vitˈtɔːrjo). 1902–74, Italian film actor and director. His films, in the neorealist tradition, include Shoeshine (1946) and Bicycle Thieves (1948)

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De Sica de Sica

Raised on a censor-approved diet of propaganda and escapist fare, he was energized by bleak and poetic masterworks by neorealist Italian filmmakers such as Vittorio De Sica.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 10, 2023

In Italy, she worked with some of the country’s top directors following the war, including Mario Monicelli, Luigi Comencini, Pietro Germi and Vittorio De Sica.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 16, 2023

An aficionado of Italian cinema might be reminded of treasured stories of family conflict and adolescent friendship, of farm labor and factory work — of Pasolini, Olmi, Fellini and De Sica.

From New York Times ● Jan. 27, 2022

Loren "was created differently, behaved differently, affected me differently from any woman I have known", De Sica once said.

From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2020

Roma is a throwback to the great Italian neorealist film-makers Roberto Rossellini and Vittorio De Sica.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 30, 2018

It happened to such great Italian neorealists as Vittoria de Sica, Luchino Visconti and Roberto Rossellini.

From The Guardian ● May 6, 2020

Veteran Actor Vittorio de Sica guessed his income at $48,000, which was just half of what the tax collector guessed, which may in turn be as little as one-seventh of what he actually made.

From Time Magazine Archive

Malle was not after the kind of shattering catharsis that Vittorio de Sica, working with similar material, achieved in The Garden of the Finzi-Continis.

From Time Magazine Archive