Raf Vallone plays Francesco Dominici, a shepherd and war veteran who returns home to find that his flock Read More »
Tag Archives: Giuseppe De Santis
Tragic Hunt (1947) Giuseppe De Santis, Vivi Gioi
Immediately after the war, a truck on which the newlyweds Michele and Giovanna travel Read More »
Rome 11:00 (1952) Giuseppe De Santis, Lucia Bosé
Based on an actual incident, this is the story of five girls (told in a slow beginning) who are among the 200 women Read More »
Men and Wolves / Uomini e lupi (1957) Giuseppe De Santis, Leopoldo Savona, Silvana Mangano, Yves Montand, Pedro Armendáriz
A draft, his wife, his son and a man who pretends to come to a miserable lobero people of Abruzzo. Read More »
Attack and Retreat AKA Italiani brava gente (1964) Giuseppe De Santis, Arthur Kennedy, Zhanna Prokhorenko, Raffaele Pisu
During the summer of 1941, Germany and its European allies invade the Soviet Union. Read More »
Days of Glory AKA Giorni di gloria (1945) Giuseppe De Santis, Umberto Barbaro, Umberto Calosso, Donato Carretta
The film shows the life of the antifascist partisans, the events that led to the liberation of Rome Read More »
The Year Long Road AKA La strada lunga un anno (1958) Giuseppe De Santis, Silvana Pampanini, Eleonora Rossi Drago, Massimo Girotti
The plot is set in an underdeveloped and remote area of a fictitious country Read More »
Giorni d’amore / Days of Love (1954) Giuseppe De Santis, Leopoldo Savona, Marcello Mastroianni, Marina Vlady, Giulio Calì, Comedy, Drama
Riso amaro / Bitter Rice (1949) Giuseppe De Santis, Vittorio Gassman, Doris Dowling, Silvana Mangano, Drama
Francesca and Walter are two-bit criminals in Northern Italy, and, in an effort to avoid the police, Francesca joins a group of women rice workers. Read More »
Un marito per Anna Zaccheo / A Husband for Anna (1953) Giuseppe De Santis, Silvana Pampanini, Amedeo Nazzari, Massimo Girotti, Drama
Anna Zaccheo is a beautiful young woman from a working class Neapolitan family. Her main concern is to find herself a suitable husband. She meets a young sailor Andrea one day and gets engaged to him. But while she is waiting for Andrea to return from the navy she gets raped by her boss. Her life suddenly takes a downward spiral.
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