Born in Sora, Italy, in 1901 and died in Paris in 1974, De Sica was first a popular actor and then a director whose neorealist films with non-professional casts showed the lives of ordinary people in post-war Italy with great compassion.
Filmography
- The Children Are Watching Us (1944)
- Shoeshine (1946)
- Bicycle Thieves (1948)
- Miracle in Milan (1951)
- Umberto D. (1952)
- Two Women (1960)
- Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963)
- Marriage Italian Style (1964)
- The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970)
- Sunflower (1970)
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