ABSTRACT
Ossessione (Obsession) (Industrie Cinematografiche Italiane, Italy, 1942, Dir: Luchino Visconti)
Roma, Città Aperta (Rome, Open City) (Minerva, Italy, 1945, Dir: Roberto Rossellini)
Riso Amaro (Bitter Rice) (Lux, Italy, 1949, Dir: Giuseppe de Santis)
Miraculo a Milano (Miracle in Milan) (PDS/ENIC, Italy, 1951, Dir: Vittorio de Sica)
Rocco e i Suoi Fratelli (Rocco and His Brothers) (Titanus/Les Films Marceau, Italy/France, 1960, Dir: Luchino Visconti)
L’albero degli zoccoli (The Tree of the Wooden Clogs) (Curzon/RAI/GPC, Italy, 1978, Dir: Ermanno Olmi)
The initial period of Italian Neo-realism is one that grew out of Italian Fascist documentary production during the Second World War, and ran from 1942 through to 1952 (though Neo-realist films were sporadically produced until the movement effectively died out in 1960). It is, however, not the dates that are significant, but the effect this new style of filmmaking had in the aftermath of the war, and on subsequent Italian and other national cinemas (notably South American) to the present day.
