Cinema of Italy

The history of Italian cinema began a just few months after the Lumière brothers had discovered it, and it was precisely with a few seconds of film in which Pope Leo XIII was blessing the camera.

Renowned figures

Directors

• Filoteo Alberini
• Gianni Amelio
• Michelangelo Antonioni
• Francesca Archibugi
• Dario Argento
• Marco Bellocchio
• Bernardo Bertolucci
• Alessandro Blasetti
• Liliana Cavani
• Luigi Comencini
• Vittorio De Sica
• Federico Fellini
• Marco Ferreri
• Pietro Germi
• Alberto Lattuada
• Sergio Leone
• Mario Monicelli
• Ermanno Olmi
• Pier Paolo Pasolini
• Elio Petri
• Gillo Pontecorvo
• Dino Risi
• Francesco Rosi
• Roberto Rossellini
• Ettore Scola
• Steno (Stefano Vanzina)
• Giuseppe Tornatore
• Luchino Visconti
• Lina Wertmüller

Actors and Actresses

• See: List of actors from Italy

Literature

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