Vittorio De Seta
Italian cinema director and screenwriter
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::summary Italian cinema director and screenwriter ::
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| Field | Value |
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| name | Vittorio De Seta |
| image | Vittorio De Seta.jpg |
| birth_date | |
| birth_place | Palermo, Italy |
| death_date | |
| death_place | Sellia Marina (Calabria), Italy |
| occupation | Film director, screenwriter |
| years_active | 1954–2011 |
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Vittorio De Seta (15 October 1923 – 28 November 2011) was an Italian cinema director and screenwriter, considered one of Italian cinema's great imaginative realists of the 1960s.
Biography
He was born in Palermo, Sicily, to a wealthy family, and studied architecture in Rome, before deciding to become a director.
De Seta made ten short documentaries between 1954 and 1959, before directing his first feature-length film, Banditi a Orgosolo (Bandits of Orgosolo).
His early documentaries focus on the everyday life of many of Sicily's poorest workers, and are notable for their lack of voice-over narration, quiet mood, and striking color.
In 2005 the rediscovery of Vittorio De Seta's work was a highlight of Tribeca Film Festival and Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, where Détour De Seta, a documentary on the Italian director was presented.
Filmography
- Banditi a Orgosolo (1961)
- Almost a Man (1966)
- L'invitata (1969)
- Diario di un maestro (1972) TV mini-series
- Un anno a Pietralata (1974) TV movie
- In Calabria (1993)
- Lettere dal Sahara (2006)
- articolo 23 (2008) Short
Documentaries
- Lu tempu di li pisci spata, 1954
- Isole di fuoco, 1954
- Surfarara, 1955
- Pasqua in Sicilia, 1955
- Contadini del mare, 1955
- Parabola d'oro, 1955
- Pescherecci, 1958
- Pastori di Orgosolo, 1958
- Un giorno in Barbagia, 1958
- I dimenticati, 1959
- In Calabria, 1993
- Dedicato ad Antonino Uccello, 2003
Awards
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- David di Donatello: Targa d'argento.
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- Best First Work in the Venice Film Festival with Banditi a Orgosolo.
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- Silver Ribbon of the Best Cinematography B/W at the Sindacato Nazionale Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani (Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists) with Banditi a Orgosolo.
Bibliography
;Bibliography
- Alessandro Rais (curated by). Il cinema di Vittorio De Seta. Catania, Giuseppe Maimone Editore, 1995.
- Il mondo perduto: i cortometraggi di Vittorio De Seta. 1954-1959, book and DVD. Milan, Feltrinelli Editore, 2009.
- Paolino Nappi. L'avventura del reale. Il cinema di Vittorio De Seta. Soveria Mannelli, Rubbettino, 2015.
- Antioco Floris,Banditi a Orgosolo, il film di Vittorio de Seta, Cinema Focus, Rubbettino editore, Soveria Mannelli (Catanzaro) 2019. ;Documentari
- Détour De Seta. Documentary film. Dir. Salvo Cuccia. Palomar-Endemol, 2004. 57 min.
References
References
- [http://www.tribecafilm.com/filmguide/archive/Detour_De_Seta.html ''Détour De Seta''] {{webarchive. link. (19 January 2012 at the [[Tribeca Film Festival]]. Retrieved July 12, 2010)
- (2011-11-29). "Morto il regista Vittorio De Seta". [[Corriere della Sera]].
- [http://www.fullframefest.org/advisory.php Full Frame Fest - Advisory Board - Martin Scorsese] {{webarchive. link. (1 July 2010 Retrieved July 12, 2010)
- link. (25 July 2011 . Retrieved July 11, 2010)
- [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053632/awards Awards for Bandits of Orgosolo] at the [[Internet Movie Database. IMDb]]. Retrieved July 11, 2010
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