Italian Neorealism

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Italian Neorealism was a post–World War II film movement in Italy characterized by on-location shooting, non-professional actors, and stories focused on the everyday struggles of the working class and poor.

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instanceOf Italian cultural movement
film movement
alsoKnownAs Italian Neorealism
surface form: Neorealismo italiano
characteristic focus on everyday life
focus on the poor
focus on working-class characters
location sound or minimal dubbing
loosely structured narratives
low-budget production
natural lighting
on-location shooting
open endings
political and social critique
social realism
use of non-professional actors
use of real urban and rural settings
countryOfOrigin Italy
emergedAfter World War II
influenced British social realism
French New Wave
Indian parallel cinema
surface form: Indian Parallel Cinema

New Hollywood
Third Cinema
influencedBy Fascist-era Italian cinema conditions
French poetic realism
Resistance and anti-fascist culture
economic hardship in postwar Italy
language Italian
mainLocation Italy
movementEnd early 1950s
movementStart 1943
notableDirector Alberto Lattuada
Cesare Zavattini
Giuseppe De Santis
Luchino Visconti
Roberto Rossellini
Vittorio De Sica
notableFilm Bicycle Thieves
Germany, Year Zero
surface form: Germany Year Zero

La terra trema
surface form: La Terra Trema

Ossessione
Paisan
Rome, Open City
Umberto D.
relatedGenre social realism in film
theme human dignity under hardship
moral ambiguity
poverty
social injustice
unemployment
typicalSetting rural villages
urban slums
war-ravaged cities

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this entity surface form: Italian neorealism
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this entity surface form: Italian neorealism
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this entity surface form: Italian neorealism
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this entity surface form: Italian neorealism
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this entity surface form: Italian neorealism
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this entity surface form: Italian neorealism
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this entity surface form: Italian neorealist cinema
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this entity surface form: Italian neorealism
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this entity surface form: Italian neorealism
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Italian Neorealism alsoKnownAs Italian Neorealism
this entity surface form: Neorealismo italiano
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this entity surface form: Italian neorealism
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this entity surface form: Italian neorealism
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Cinecittà Studios significantPeriod Italian Neorealism
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this entity surface form: Italian neorealism
film "Stromboli" (1950) filmMovement Italian Neorealism
subject surface form: Stromboli
this entity surface form: Italian neorealism
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this entity surface form: Italian neorealist cinema
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this entity surface form: Italian neorealism
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this entity surface form: Italian neorealist cinema tradition
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this entity surface form: Italian neorealism
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this entity surface form: Italian neorealism
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this entity surface form: Italian neorealism
Rome, Open City movement Italian Neorealism
this entity surface form: Italian neorealism
Paisan movement Italian Neorealism
this entity surface form: Italian neorealism
Germany, Year Zero movement Italian Neorealism
this entity surface form: Italian neorealism
The Flowers of St. Francis movement Italian Neorealism
this entity surface form: Italian neorealism
General Della Rovere partOf Italian Neorealism
this entity surface form: Italian neorealist cinema tradition
Marcella De Marchis notableWorkField Italian Neorealism
this entity surface form: Italian neorealist cinema
Marcella De Marchis movement Italian Neorealism
this entity surface form: Italian neorealism
Renzo Rossellini (composer) movement Italian Neorealism
subject surface form: Renzo Rossellini
this entity surface form: Italian neorealism
Sonali Das Gupta movement Italian Neorealism
this entity surface form: Italian neorealist cinema (through association with Roberto Rossellini)
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