Giuseppe de Santis

Giuseppe De Santis was born in Fondi, in Lazio, in 1917. A student in Rome, he took the directing courses at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia and wrote in the journal Cinema texts that laid the foundations of neorealism. He collaborated on the screenplay of Luchino Visconti's first film, then made his first fiction feature in 1947. Kept away from production from the 1970s onward, he died in Rome in 1997.

In the catalogue 2

• CinemaBitter RiceRiso amaroGiuseppe de Santis · 1949Cinema
• CinemaAttack and RetreatItaliani brava genteGiuseppe de Santis · 1964Cinema