Neo- realism is also known as the Golden era of Italian Cinema. It came after the end of world war II after the fall of Mussolini’s government. It a is national film movement characterized by stories set amongst the poor and the working class, this movies are mostly filmed on location, and they use non professional actors for the play. Neo- realism films mostly highlight on the difficult economic and moral conditions of post World War II. These films represent the changes in the Italian psyche and conditions of everyday life which includes depression, poverty, unemployment, oppression and injustice.
1945-51 what made these films seem so realistic? Partly the contrast with many of the films that preceded them. Italian …show more content…
An as we can see the immediate effect of Neorealism is most evident in the work of the two best-known Spanish directors to emerge in the 1950s, Luis Garcia Berlanga and Juan Antonio Bardem.
Welcome, Mr. Marshall ( 1951 ), scripted by Bardem and directed by Berlanga, is a comic fable reminiscent of De Sica's Miracle in Milan.
We can also see the impact in India. By the time Italian neorealist films arrived in India, the movement was in crisis in Italy. In 1952 some of the well known specimens of the movement came to India at the International Film Festival organised by Films Division.
Though films from 23 countries came, neorealist films received special mention in the popular reports of magazines such as Filmfare and Chitrabani. ‘Bicycle thief’, especially impacted Satyajit Ray who is known to have said “if I ever made Pather Panchali I would make it in the same way”. Also in the works of Bimal Roy, Prakash Aurora, Sarhadi and Amar Kumar one can see a realist shift as well.Lower middle class poverty, children on the streets, unemployment and urban experience became recurring themes.In style as well the change was visible in the use of location, space and …show more content…
Guided by the intelligent and rigorously structured screenplays of his frequent and most important collaborator, Cesare Zavattini, De Sica’s major films are preoccupied with urgent social and political topics facing postwar Italy poverty and the hardscrabble life of the streets, intergenerational estrangement, and the sense of general moral decay and vacuity cast by the dark shadow of the Fascist