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The physical infrastructure of the film industry had survived the War better in Italy than elsewhere in Europe and it was here that post-European War film making first flourished. Filmmakers attempted to realistically portray the bleak conditions of post-war Europe using real locations and non-professional, as well as professional, actors in a style known as "neorealism". The great masters of this style were  Roberto Rossellini, Luchino Visconti and Vittoria De Sica.     

As Europe became more prosperous through the fifties, neorealism disappeared but several talented directors, who had begun as neorealists, kept Italian movies prominent. These included Federico Fellini, Michaelangelo Antonioni, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Bernado Bertolucci.
 

Year Title Director Cast
1945 Open City Rossellini Aldo Fabrizi
1948 The Earth Trembles Visconti Luchino Visconti (narrator)
1948 Bicycle Thieves Da Sica Lamberto Maggiorani
Enzo Staiola
1952 Umberto D Da Sica Carlo Battisti
1954 La Strada Fellini Anthony Quinn
Giulietta Masini
1956 Nights of Cabiria Fellini Giulietta Masini
1960 La Dolce Vita Fellini Marcello Mastroianni
Anita Ekberg
Anouk Aimee
1960 La Notte Antonioni Jeanne Moreau
Marcello Mastroiani
Monica Vita
1962 L'Eclisse Antonioni Monica Vita
Alain Delon
1963 8 1/2 Fellini Marcello Mastroianni
Claudia Cardinale
Anouk Aimee
1964 Blow Up Antonioni Vanessa redgrave
Sarah Miles
David Hemmings
1964 The Gospel According to Mathew Pasolini Enrique Irazoqui
1965 Juliet of the Spirits Fellini Giulietta Masini
1969 Fellini Satyricon Fellini Martin Potter
Hiram Keller
1968 Teoema Pasolini Silvano Morgano
Terrence Stamp
1970 Zabriski Point Antonioni Mark Frechette
Daria Halprin
1970 The Decameron Pasolini Franco Citti
1970 The Conformist Bertolucci Jean-Luc Trintignant
1972 Last Tango in Paris Bertolucci Marlon Brando
Maria Schneider

   

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