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After a three-year break, the Mostra (Venice Film Festival) is staged once more in the Lido at Venice. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 22/12 - |
The premiere of Vittorio De Sica's Sciuscia (Shoeshine) takes place. Shot largely on location, the film stars Rinaldo Smordoni and Franco Interlengi as the impoverished shoeshine boys plying their trade in Rome. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Roberto Rossellini’s L’Amore is released. The film, which stars Federico Fellini and Anna Magnani, is in two parts: The Human Voice by Jean Cocteau, and The Miracle, based on an idea by Fellini. [MORE] |
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| 24/11 - |
Vittorio de Sica’s neo-realist Ladri di Biciclette (Bicycle Thief) is released. Reflecting the desperate poverty of the times, it tells the simple tale of a working man’s search for his stolen bike, without which he is unable to work. Non-actors Lamberto Maggiorani and Enzo Staiola as his son help add to the air of realism. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Roberto Rossellini’s Germania, anno zero (Germany, Year Zero) is released. Set in post-war Berlin, it tells the tale of a 12-year-old boy driven to desperate measures to ease the burden suffered by his family. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Roberto Rossellini begins location shooting on the volcanic island of Stromboli, off the straits of Messina with the cast of Stromboli, which includes Ingrid Bergman and non-actor Mario Vitale. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 18/6 - |
Abel Gance and producer Georges de la Grandière are given a private audience by Pope Pius XII at the Vatican to discuss The Divine Tragedy, their proposed film on the life of Christ. [MORE] [ADD] |
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The Andreotti Act, a law initiated by Giulio Andreotti, is passed. The law taxes film imports to support domestic production; it both increases subsidies and strengthens government control over film censorship. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 21/9 - |
Giuseppe De Santis’ Riso Amaro (Bitter Rice) is released. The film stars the voluptuous 19-year-old Silvana Mangano. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 26/10 - |
Pier Paulo Pasolini is expelled from the Italian Communist Party for ‘morally and politically unacceptable behaviour’ after the party receive a police report revealing his homosexuality. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 22/12 - |
La Rosa di Bagdad, Italy’s first animated feature, is released. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 29/12 - |
A new quota law comes into effect: cinemas must screen Italian films for a minimum of 80 days a year. To avoid a proliferation of poor-quality quota quickies, the films must be quality-approved by a quota council. Qualifying films earn a subsidy of 10% of their gross revenue for five years, while films considered to be of artistic merit receive a further 8%. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Roberto Rossellini’s Stromboli is released. Starring Rossellini’s lover, Ingrid Bergman, as a Lithuanian woman subjected to a harsh existence after marrying an Italian fisherman (Mario Vitale) to avoid internment in a prison camp, the film is more controversial because of Bergman’s and Rossellini’s tangled love life than for the film’s subject matter. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Free to marry Roberto Rossellini after her divorce from husband Dr. Peter Lindstrom, Ingrid Bergman faces the wrath of the American public following the release of her film, Stromboli. Senator Edwin C. Johnson declares, ‘The degenerate Rossellini has deceived the American people with an idiotic story of a volcano and a pregnant woman. We must protect ourselves against such scourges.’ Bergman’s response: "Americans do not understand that a mother might be blinded by passion to the point of sacrificing her daughter." [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 25/11 - |
38-year-old Michelangelo Antonio’s debut feature, Cronaca di un Amore (Chronicle of a Love), is released. Lucia Bosé and Massimo Girotti star as illicit lovers plotting to murder the woman’s husband. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Roberto Rossellini's giullare di Dio (Flowers of St. Francis), a tale about the life of Saint Francis of Assisi, is released. [MORE] [ADD] |
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