Vittorio De Seta

Not to be confused with Vittorio de Sica.

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]

Vittorio De Seta
Born	(1923-10-15)15 October 1923 Palermo, Italy
Died	28 November 2011(2011-11-28) (aged 88) Sellia Marina (Calabria), Italy
Occupation(s)	Film director, screenwriter
Years active	1954–2011

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]

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

Awards

• 1957. David di Donatello: Targa d'argento.^[4]
• 1961. Best First Work in the Venice Film Festival with Banditi a Orgosolo.^[5]
• 1962. Silver Ribbon of the Best Cinematography B/W at the Sindacato Nazionale Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani (Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists) with Banditi a Orgosolo.^[5]

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.

Documentari

• Détour De Seta. Documentary film. Dir. Salvo Cuccia. Palomar-Endemol, 2004. 57 min.^[1]

See also

• Il mondo perduto