Days of Love
The extraordinary journey of this actor, a leading figure in Italian and European cinema for over three decades, brings us back to the heart of the most demanding auteur cinema, as well as to the most inventive, joyful, and iconic popular films. With a unique sense of style and a casual elegance, he became one of the most accomplished embodiments of the screen actor.
Winner of the Golden Shell, 1955 San Sebastián International Film Festival
Angela and Pasquale would like to get married, but their respective families, modest farmers, lack the money to organize a “traditional” ceremony. So they come up with a plan to avoid spending too much...

Giuseppe De Santis
Giuseppe De Santis was an Italian film director. One of the most idealistic neorealist filmmakers of the 1940s and 1950s, he wrote and directed films punctuated by ardent cries for social reform. In 1942, De Santis collaborated on the script for Ossessione, Luchino Visconti's debut film, which is usually considered one of the first neo-realist films. He made his own directorial debut with Tragic Hunt in 1947. Like the two films to follow, it was a sincere call for better living conditions for the Italian working class and agrarian workers. His third film Bitter Rice (1950), was a landmark of the new cinematic style, made a star of Silvana Mangano and earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Story. By the early 1950s, the neorealist movement was falling out of favour with critics and audiences. New filmmakers began using dramatic stories that centered on relationships and de Santis also altered his focus, though without fully recapturing the impact of his earlier work. Nevertheless, he is unanimously regarded one of the greatest Italian directors of the 20th century.
