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Alessandro Blasetti (3 July 1900 – 1 February 1987) was an Italian film director and screenwriter who influenced Italian neorealism with the film Quattro passi fra le nuvole. Blasetti was one of the leading figures in Italian cinema during the Fascist era.
Alessandro Blasetti was born on 3 July 1900 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was a director and writer, known for First Communion (1950), La corona di ferro (1941) and Me, Me, Me... and the Others (1966). He was married to Maria Laura Quagliotti. He died on 1 February 1987 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
Nov 2, 2010 · Alessandro Blasetti (1900–1987), a law school graduate and failed movie extra, started out as a film critic and participant in what might be viewed as a forerunner of the French Nouvelle Vague (New Wave) of the 1950s and 1960s: the Augustus cooperative.
Alessandro Blasetti (Roma, 3 luglio 1900 – Roma, 1º febbraio 1987) è stato un regista, sceneggiatore, montatore e critico cinematografico italiano, fra i più celebri e significativi del suo tempo, tanto da poter essere definito «padre fondatore del moderno cinema italiano».
Jan 29, 2020 · Alessandro Blasetti is paradoxically both one of the most significant and one of the least recognised of Italian film directors. Though he started out as a critic and intellectual and was the princ...
Alessandro Blasetti’s films were known for their realism and social commentary on the issues facing Italian society at the time. He tackled topics such as poverty, injustice, and the struggles of the working class, shedding light on the harsh realities of life in Italy.
Blasetti’s pioneering film has been credited with introducing a number of cinematic techniques which would become calling cards of Italy’s Neo-Realist directors, such as De Sica, Visconti and Rossellini, during the 1940’s and 1950’s.
