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Vittorio De Seta

Italian cinema director and screenwriter From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Vittorio De Seta
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Vittorio De Seta (15 October 1923 28 November 2011) was an Italian cinema director and screenwriter, considered one of Italian cinema's great imaginative realists of the 1960s.[1][2]

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Biography

He was born in Palermo, Sicily, to a wealthy family, and studied architecture in Rome, before deciding to become a director.

De Seta made ten short documentaries between 1954 and 1959, before directing his first feature-length film, Banditi a Orgosolo (Bandits of Orgosolo).

His early documentaries focus on the everyday life of many of Sicily's poorest workers, and are notable for their lack of voice-over narration, quiet mood, and striking color.

In 2005 the rediscovery of Vittorio De Seta's work was a highlight of Tribeca Film Festival and Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, where Détour De Seta, a documentary on the Italian director was presented.[1][3]

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Filmography

  • Banditi a Orgosolo (1961)
  • Almost a Man (1966)
  • L'invitata (1969)
  • Diario di un maestro (1972) TV mini-series
  • Un anno a Pietralata (1974) TV movie
  • In Calabria (1993)
  • Lettere dal Sahara (2006)
  • articolo 23 (2008) Short

Documentaries

  • Vinni lu tempu de li pisci spata, 1954
  • Isole di fuoco, 1954
  • Sulfarara, 1955
  • Pasqua in Sicilia, 1955
  • Contadini del mare, 1955
  • Parabola d'oro, 1955
  • Pescherecci, 1958
  • Pastori di Orgosolo, 1958
  • Un giorno in Barbagia, 1958
  • I dimenticati, 1959
  • In Calabria, 1993
  • Dedicato ad Antonino Uccello, 2003
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Awards

Bibliography

Bibliography
  • Alessandro Rais (curated by). Il cinema di Vittorio De Seta. Catania, Giuseppe Maimone Editore, 1995. ISBN 88-7751-088-9
  • Il mondo perduto: i cortometraggi di Vittorio De Seta. 1954-1959, book and DVD. Milan, Feltrinelli Editore, 2009. ISBN 978-88-07-74034-3
  • Paolino Nappi. L'avventura del reale. Il cinema di Vittorio De Seta. Soveria Mannelli, Rubbettino, 2015. ISBN 978-88-498-4493-1
  • Antioco Floris,Banditi a Orgosolo, il film di Vittorio de Seta, Cinema Focus, Rubbettino editore, Soveria Mannelli (Catanzaro) 2019.
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