Giuseppe De Santis
Highest Rated: 100% Ossessione (1942)
Lowest Rated: 100% Ossessione (1942)
Birthday: Feb 11, 1917
Birthplace: Fondi, Lazio, Italy
Film critic and early advocate of Italian Neorealism who turned to directing after co-writing several films, notably Luchino Visconti's first feature "Ossessione" (1942). "Bitter Rice" (1949) remains De Santis' best known work, a somber but sexy study of female rice pickers in the Po Valley starring Silvana Mangano.
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Attack and Retreat | Director | - | 1965 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Year Long Road |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 1958 |
| No Score Yet | 100% | Rome 11:00 |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 1952 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | No Peace Under the Olive Trees |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 1951 |
| 100% | 81% | Bitter Rice |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 1949 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Outcry | Screenwriter | - | 1946 |
| 100% | 85% | Ossessione | Screenwriter | - | 1942 |