Il neorealismo: il cinema della verità

The neorealism was born from the rubble of the Second World War. With the studios film destroyed and the budgets very limited, the directors filmed in the streets, using non-professional actors non-professional actors and natural light natural.

Roberto Rossellini with "Rome Open City" and Vittorio De Sica with "Bicycle Thieves" Bicycle Thieves brought onto the screen stories of ordinary people common who struggled to survive.

What that made these films revolutionary was the their honesty brutal. Not there were heroes triumphant nor happy endings guaranteed: only the life as it was, with its its miseries and its small small dignities.

The movement had an impact enormous on world cinema world. The French New Wave New Wave French, the British Free Cinema Cinema British and the American independent cinema independent American all owe all something to the insights of the neorealists Italian.

Although the neorealist as a movement faded faded around the mid of the nineteen fifties, the its lesson remains current: the cinema can be a instrument of denunciation social capable of changing the conscience collective.