Alessandro Blasetti was an Italian film director and screenwriter who influenced Italian neorealism with the film Quattro passi fra le nuvole. Blasetti was one of the leading figures in Italian cinema during the Fascist era. He is sometimes known as the "father of Italian cinema" because of his role in reviving the struggling industry in the late 1920s.
Blasetti in 1965
Blasetti in 1954
Blasetti in 1965
Italian neorealism, also known as the Golden Age, was a national film movement characterized by stories set amongst the poor and the working class. They are filmed on location, frequently with non-professional actors. They primarily address the difficult economic and moral conditions of post-World War II Italy, representing changes in the Italian psyche and conditions of everyday life, including poverty, oppression, injustice and desperation.
A still shot from Rome, Open City, by Roberto Rossellini (1945)
Wandering Musicians by Italian neorealist artist Bruno Caruso (1953)
Bicycle Thieves by Vittorio De Sica (1948)
Shoeshine by Vittorio De Sica (1946)