KnowraVittorio De SicaLinked fromLinked fromThe 13 pages that link to Vittorio De Sica, each with the reason it gives.All 13Related 11Compared with 2Social realismRelated: His films used everyday settings and working-class protagonists to portray social hardship.Italian neorealismRelated: His collaborations with Zavattini made everyday poverty a sustained dramatic subject.Luchino ViscontiCompared with: De Sica’s focus on everyday poverty offers a counterpoint to Visconti’s sustained attention to aristocratic decline.Nonprofessional actorsRelated: He cast nonprofessional performers in films including The Bicycle Thieves.Bicycle ThievesRelated: His direction gives the story its humane attention to ordinary hardship.Roberto RosselliniCompared with: His humanist neorealism offers a useful comparison with Rossellini's more spiritually searching cinema.Nino RotaRelated: Rota composed for films directed by De Sica, linking his work to postwar Italian cinema.Alberto SordiRelated: De Sica directed Sordi in films that joined popular comedy to social observation.Sophia LorenRelated: De Sica directed Loren in defining films, including Two Women and Marriage Italian Style.Gina LollobrigidaRelated: His pairing with Lollobrigida anchored the Bread, Love films.Cinema of ItalyRelated: His films brought postwar hardship and ordinary lives to the center of Italian cinema.TotòRelated: De Sica directed Totò in “The Gold of Naples,” giving him a place in a neorealist portrait of the city.Luigi ComenciniRelated: De Sica starred in Bread, Love and Dreams as the village marshal.