Il cinema neorealista
Neorealist cinema
In the post-war period, Italy was a country destroyed. The cities were full of rubble and the people were looking for how to survive.
In this context was born the neorealism. Directors such as Roberto Rossellini, Vittorio De Sica and Luchino Visconti shot their their films directly on the street.
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They did not use use actors professional, but real people real. They did not build build sets, but used the real reality as backdrop.
The film most famous of this movement is Bicycle Thieves biciclette by De Sica. It tells the story of a father and a son who search a bicycle stolen through the the streets of Rome.
The neorealism has influenced the cinema of the world in a profound way. Directors Iranian, Japanese and American have been been inspired by this style.