Giuseppe De Santis

Giuseppe De Santis (February 11th 1917 - May 16th 1997) was an Italian realizer of cinema, undoubtedly one of most outstanding of the Néo-réalisme of the years 1940. Its films are punctuated burning calls to the social reform.

He was the brother of the Director of photography Pasqualino De Santis.

Biography

De Santis was born with Fondi, in the Lazio.

Initially studying in philosophy and literature, it enters soon to the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia of Rome. De Santis becomes then journalist with the review Cinema : its articles are as many pleas for the first realizers neorealists whose films, which tend to reflect simple the realities , often tragedies, of the life of the proletariat, are often made except studio with actors not-professionals.

In 1942, De Santis collaborates in the scenario of Ossessione , the first film of Luchino Visconti.

While continuing its collaboration with the review, it is invested more and more in the writing for the cinema and becomes assistant. In 1945, it carries out its first film, Days of glory (Giorni di gloria) . In this film and the two following, it calls sincerely with an improvement of the living conditions of the Italian working class.

Its third film is bitter Riz (Riso amaro) (1950), history of an young woman who works in the rice plantations and must choose between two sighing of different social condition. The film, which marks the new cinematographic style Italian, made Silvana Mangano a high-speed motorboat and is worth in Santis a nomination with the Oscars for its scenario.

It is the time when the movement neorealist starts to quickly lose the favor of the public and the critic. New realizers center their films, often dramatic, on the relations between the protagonists. De Santis adapts to this change, but its films suffer from it. Whereas it turns until in 1973, it will never find the power of its beginnings.

In 1952, it turns Eleven hours sounded (Roma ore 11) , illustration of the tragedy real accident whose Augusto Genina had given its version the previous year in prohibited Histoires (Tre storie proibite) .

De Santis dies in 1997 in Rome, of the continuations of an heart attack. He is unanimously regarded as one of the largest Italian realizers of the 20th century.

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