Giuseppe De Santis

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Giuseppe De Santis, 1954

Giuseppe De Santis (born February 11, 1917 in Fondi ; † May 16, 1997 in Rome ) was an Italian film director who is assigned to neorealism . He is known for his socially critical films, such as Bitter Rice from 1949, which support calls for social reform. De Santis was the brother of the Italian cameraman Pasqualino De Santis .

Life

De Santis first studied philosophy and literature and then attended the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome. While working as a journalist for cinema magazines, he became interested in early neorealist films. In 1943 De Santis worked on the script for Ossessione (Obsession / Obsessed with love), Luchino Visconti's first film . The crime novel The Bill Without the Landlord by James M. Cain served as a template .

From then on, De Santis worked more and more as a screenwriter and assistant director in addition to his work as a journalist . In 1947 he worked as a director for the first time in the production of the film Caccia tragica (Tragic Hunt) . This and the two following films were an intense call for better living conditions for the Italian working class. His third film, Bitter Rice, about a worker in the rice fields turned the young Silvana Mangano into a film star and earned De Santis an Oscar nomination.

Italian neorealism ended in the early 1950s, and De Santis adapted to changing public tastes. However, his films no longer had the powerful expression and success of the early years. At the 1995 Venice Film Festival , De Santis was awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement. Giuseppe De Santis died in Rome in 1997 as a result of a heart attack .

In the opening credits of his films, Giuseppe De Santis was sometimes listed as Giuseppe De Sanctis or Gino de Sanctis.

Films (selection)

  • 1945: Days of Glory (Giorni di gloria)
  • 1946: The sun rises again (Il sole sorge ancora)
  • 1947: Tragic Hunt (Caccia tragica)
  • 1949: bitter rice (Riso amaro)
  • 1950: Vendetta (Non c'è pace fra gli ulivi)
  • 1952: It happened point 11 (Roma ore 11)
  • 1953: Curse of Beauty (Un marito per Anna Zaccheo)
  • 1954: Days of Love (Giorni d'amore)
  • 1956: Women and Wolves (Uomini e lupi)
  • 1957: The betrothed of death (I fidanzati della morte)
  • 1958: Road of Passion (Cesta dugna godinu dana)
  • 1964: Italiani brava gente
  • 1972: Un apprezzato professionista di sicuro avvenire
  • 1995: Oggi è un altro giorno

literature

  • Stefano Masi: Giuseppe de Santis (= Il Castoro cinema 96, ISSN  0392-4440 ). La Nuova Italia, Florence 1982.
  • Antonio Parisi: Il cinema di Giuseppe De Santis. Tra passione e ideologia. Cadmo, Rome 1983.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano, I registi. Dal 1930 ai giorni nostri. Gremese, Rome 2002, ISBN 88-8440-171-2 , pp. 148/149.
personal data
SURNAME De Santis, Giuseppe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES De Sanctis, Giuseppe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian film director
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Fondi
DATE OF DEATH May 16, 1997
Place of death Rome