Vittorio De Seta, Italian film director and screenwriter, died he was 88.

Vittorio De Seta  was an Italian cinema director and screenwriter, considered one of the Italian cinema's great imaginative realists of the 1960s  died he was 88..^[1][2]

^{(15 October 1923 – 28 November 2011)}

Biography

He was born in Palermo, Sicily, to a wealthy family, and studied architecture in Rome, before deciding to become a director.
De Seta made ten short documentaries between 1954 and 1959, before directing his first feature-length film, Banditi a Orgosolo (Bandits of Orgosolo).
His early documentaries focus on the everyday life of many of Sicily's poorest workers, and are notable for their lack of voice-over narration, quiet mood, and striking color.
In 2005 the rediscovery of Vittorio De Seta's work was a highlight of Tribeca Film Festival and Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, where was presented Détour De Seta, a documentary on the Italian director.^[1][3]

Filmography

• Banditi a Orgosolo (1961)
• Un uomo a metà (1966)
• L'invitata (1969)
• Diario di un maestro (1972) TV mini-series
• Un anno a Pietralata (1974) TV movie
• In Calabria (1993)
• Lettere dal Sahara (2006)
• articolo 23 (2008) Short

Documentaries

• Vinni lu tempu de li pisci spata, 11', 1955
• Isole di fuoco, 11', 1955
• Sulfarara, 10', 1955
• Pasqua in Sicilia, 11', 1955
• Contadini del mare, 10', 1955
• Parabola d'oro, 10', 1955
• Pescherecci, 11', 1958
• Pastori di Orgosolo, 11', 1958
• Un giorno in Barbagia, 14', 1958
• I dimenticati, 20', 1959
• Dedicato ad Antonino Uccello, 30', 2003

Awards

• 1957. David di Donatello: Targa d'argento.^[4]
• 1961. Best First Work in the Venice Film Festival with Banditi a Orgosolo.^[5]
• 1962. Silver Ribbon of the Best Cinematography B/W at the Sindacato Nazionale Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani (Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists) with Banditi a Orgosolo.^[5]

Further reading

Bibliography

• Alessandro Rais (curated by). Il cinema di Vittorio De Seta. Catania, Giuseppe Maimone Editore, 1995. ISBN 88-7751-088-9
• Il mondo perduto: i cortometraggi di Vittorio De Seta. 1954-1959, book and DVD. Milano, Feltrinelli Editore, 2009. ISBN 978-88-07-74034-3

Documentary

• Détour De Seta. Documentary film. Dir. Salvo Cuccia. Palomar-Endemol, 2004. 57 min.^[1]

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