Alessandro Blasetti was an Italian film director who influenced Italian neorealism

Italian neorealism

Italian neorealism is a style of film characterized by stories set amongst the poor and working class, filmed on location, frequently using nonprofessional actors...

 with the film Quattro passi fra le nuvole. He played himself in Luchino Visconti

Luchino Visconti

Luchino Visconti di Modrone, Count of Lonate Pozzolo was an Italian theatre, opera and cinema director, as well as a screenwriter. He is best known for his films The Leopard and Death in Venice .-Life:...

's film Bellissima

Bellissima (film)

Bellissima is an Italian neorealism film by Italian director Luchino Visconti. The film is about and was shot at Cinecittà. Alessandro Blasetti, the film director, appears as himself....

starred by Anna Magnani

Anna Magnani

Anna Magnani was an Italian stage and film actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress, along with four other international awards, for her portrayal of a Sicilian widow in The Rose Tattoo....

, a Roman mother who desires to make her daughter a filmstar in Cinecittà

Cinecittà

Cinecittà is a large film studio in Rome that is considered the hub of Italian cinema.-History:The studios were founded in 1937 by Benito Mussolini and his head of cinema Luigi Freddi for propaganda purposes, under the slogan "Il cinema è l'arma più forte"...

 where Blasetti makes the screen test for the child actors.

Blasetti was born in Rome, where he also died. He was President of the Jury at the 1967 Cannes Film Festival

1967 Cannes Film Festival

-Jury:*Alessandro Blasetti *Georges Lourau *Sergei Bondarchuk *René Bonnell *Jean-Louis Bory *Miklós Jancsó *Claude Lelouch *Shirley MacLaine...

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Selected filmography

• Sole (1929)
• Nerone (1930)
• Resurrectio (1930)
• Terra madre (1931)
• La tavola dei poveri (1932)
• Palio! (1932)
• Il caso Haller (1933)
• 1860 (film)
  1860 (film)
  1860 is an Italian film directed by Alessandro Blasetti, released in 1934. The movie presages Italian neorealism in that it was shot wholly on location. Also, most contemporaneous historical epics used a star to focus on grand historical characters...
  
  (1934)
• Vecchia Guardia (1934)
• Aldebaran (1935)
• Contessa di Parma (1936)
• Un'avventura di Salvator Rosa(1940)
• La corona di ferro (1941)
• La cena delle beffe
  La cena delle beffe
  La cena delle beffe is an opera in four acts composed by Umberto Giordano to an Italian libretto by Sem Benelli adapted from his play of the same name...
  
  (1941)
• Quattro passi fra le nuvole (1943)
• Un giorno nella vita
  Un giorno nella vita
  Un giorno nella vita is a 1946 Italian war film directed by Alessandro Blasetti. It was entered into the 1946 Cannes Film Festival. American title: "A Day In the Life". This film was screened in 2009 at the Film Society of Lincoln Center's retrospective "Life Lessons" Italian Neorealism and the...
  
  (1946)
• Fabiola
  Fabiola (film)
  Fabiola is a 1949 Italian language motion picture historical drama directed by Alessandro Blasetti, very loosely based on the 1854 novel of the same name by Nicholas Patrick Wiseman. The film stars Michèle Morgan, Henri Vidal and Michel Simon...
  
  (1949)
• Prima comunione
  Prima comunione
  Prima comunione is a 1950 Italian comedy film directed by Alessandro Blasetti. It won an award at the Venice Film Festival.-Cast:*Aldo Fabrizi ... Mr. Carloni*Gaby Morlay ... Maria Carloni*Ludmilla Dudarova ... Signorina Ludovisi...
  
  (1950)
• Altri tempi: zibaldone numero 1 (1951)
• Peccato che sia una canaglia
  Too Bad She's Bad
  Too Bad She's Bad is a 1954 Italian comedy directed by Alessandro Blasetti. It stars Sophia Loren and is based on Alberto Moravia's story, Fanatico, from his Racconti Romani.-Cast:* Vittorio De Sica - Vittorio Stroppiani...
  
  (1954)
• Altri tempi: zibaldone numero 2 (1954)
• La fortuna di essere donna (1956)
• Europa di notte (1959)
• Three Fables of Love
  Three Fables of Love
  Three Fables of Love is a 1962 French-Italian-Spanish comedy film starring Anna Karina. It was shown as part of a retrospective on Italian comedy at the 67th Venice International Film Festival.-Cast:* Manuel Alexandre* Ángel Álvarez...
  
  (1962)
• Liolà (1963)
• Io, io, io... e gli altri (1966)