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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
The story was adapted into a movie by Vittorio De Sica and winner of the 1972 Academy Award for best foreign language film.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 10, 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
The Italian director and actor Vittorio De Sica is best known internationally for the searing, poignant, humanist pictures he made in the late 1940s and early ’50s.
From New York Times ● Jun. 15, 2017
It happened to such great Italian neorealists as Vittoria de Sica, Luchino Visconti and Roberto Rossellini.
From The Guardian ● May 6, 2020
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
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
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