Vittorio De Seta

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1923-10-15 (88 years old)

Deathday

2011-11-28

Place of Birth

Palermo, Sicily, Italy

Vittorio De Seta

Biography

Vittorio De Seta (15 October 1923 – 28 November 2011) was an Italian cinema director and screenwriter, considered one of the Italian cinema's great imaginative realists of the 1960s. 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.

Production

1961

1955

1958

Fishing Boats

as Director

1955

Golden Parable

as Director

1955

Easter in Sicily

as Director

1955

Islands of Fire

as Producer

1955

Islands of Fire

as Director

1955

1958

1955

Surfarara

as Director

1959

The Forgotten

as Producer

1959

The Forgotten

as Director

1973

Diary of a Teacher

as Screenplay

1966

Almost a Man

as Director

1955

1955

Sea Countrymen

as Director

1958

2006

2006

1993

In Calabria

as Director

1969

The Uninvited

as Director

1973

1961

1969

The Uninvited

as Writer

1960

1966

Almost a Man

as Story

1958

Orgosolo’s Shepherds

as Director of Photography

1955

Easter in Sicily

as Director of Photography

1959

The Forgotten

as Director of Photography

1955

Islands of Fire

as Director of Photography

1955

Sea Countrymen

as Director of Photography

1966

Almost a Man

as Screenplay

1955

Golden Parable

as Director of Photography

1966

Almost a Man

as Producer

1961

Bandits of Orgosolo

as Director of Photography

1958

1958

Fishing Boats

as Director of Photography

1955

The Age of Swordfish

as Director of Photography

1958

Fishing Boats

as Producer

1958

A Day in Barbagia

as Director of Photography

1955

1958

2009

The Lost World

as Cinematography

2009

The Lost World

as Director

1955

Magic Village

as Assistant Director

1955

Magic Village

as Screenplay

1956

1955

Surfarara

as Producer

1955

1955

Surfarara

as Editor

1955

Easter in Sicily

as Producer

1955

1955

1955

1958

1959

The Forgotten

as Presenter

1959

The Forgotten

as Editor

1961

Bandits of Orgosolo

as Screenplay

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