Alessandro Blasetti was an Italian film director and screenwriter who influenced Italian neorealism with the film Quattro passi fra le nuvole.
10 Facts About Alessandro Blasetti
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Alessandro Blasetti is sometimes known as the "father of Italian cinema" because of his role in reviving the struggling industry in the late 1920s.
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Alessandro Blasetti worked for several film magazines and led a campaign for national film production, which had largely ceased by this point.
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In 1929 Alessandro Blasetti made his directorial debut with Sun, a fictional story set against the ongoing draining of the Pontine Marshes.
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The strong reception for Sun led to Alessandro Blasetti receiving an offer from Stefano Pittaluga, the only significant commercial producer left working in Italy at the time.
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Alessandro Blasetti directed what would have been the first Italian sound film Resurrection, but delays meant that it was released after Gennaro Righelli's The Song of Love.
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In 1934 Alessandro Blasetti directed the play 18 BL a "mass theatre" performed outdoors with 2,000 amateur actors.
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Alessandro Blasetti was a driving force in the revival of the Italian film industry in the 1930s, having lobbied for greater state funding and support.
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Alessandro Blasetti played himself in Luchino Visconti's film Bellissima starred by Anna Magnani, a Roman mother who desires to make her daughter a filmstar in Cinecitta where Blasetti makes the screen test for the child actors.
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Alessandro Blasetti was President of the Jury at the 1967 Cannes Film Festival.