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Umberto D. (pronounced [umˈbɛrto di]) is a 1952 Italian neorealist film directed by Vittorio De Sica. Most of the actors were non-professional, including Carlo Battisti who plays the title role of Umberto Domenico Ferrari, a poor elderly man in Rome who is desperately trying to keep his rented room.
Umberto D.: Directed by Vittorio De Sica. With Carlo Battisti, Maria Pia Casilio, Lina Gennari, Ileana Simova. An elderly man and his dog struggle to survive on his government pension in Rome.
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- Vittorio De Sica
- 1955-11-07
Apr 28, 2002 · Umberto D is a 1952 Italian film by Vittorio De Sica about a retired civil servant facing poverty and eviction. Roger Ebert praises its simplicity, realism and dignity, and calls it the best of the neorealist films.
Umberto D. is a 1952 Italian film that depicts the struggles of an elderly pensioner in postwar Rome. The Criterion Collection offers a new restoration, a documentary, essays, and an interview with the director and the actress Maria Pia Casilio.
- Umberto Domenico Ferrari
May 2, 2015 · “Umberto D.” (1952) is about an old man who struggles to survive on a government pension. “It may be the best of the Italian neorealist films,” the critic Roger Ebert wrote, “the one...
Mar 5, 1990 · De Sica’s Umberto D. is widely considered a masterwork of this principled movement, an elegant if bleak film that stands with Bergman’s Wild Strawberries as one of the great portraits of old age and loneliness ever brought to the screen.
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Umberto D. is perhaps the most astringent film ever made about a poor old man and his dog. Critics today tend to like the astringent parts: the long, deliberately undramatic sequences full of mundane activity (such as a housemaid’s morning routine), performed with little or no dialogue and shot as if in real time.
