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Our constant research on neo-realism has led us to the discovery of some wonderful trailers.
This is not a ranking, but a simple sharing of beautiful vintage previews, that richly described the movie, the atmosphere and the characters.
And also an opportunity for us to tell some anecdotes related to these masterpieces.
Bicycle Thieves marks the return of De Sica as a director after the commercial flop of Sciuscà. De Sica personally invested his money to produce the film based on the novel adapted by Cesare Zavattini.
Visconti was inspired for this film by an episode actually happened about a year and a half before, when the director Blasetti, during the casting for “First Communion” was looking for a girl as the protagonist and had to deal with a mother who wanted at all costs impose his daughter, telling everyone that she was “beautiful”.
The film had a very complicated construction, the shooting started in January del’45 while Italy was still at war, despite every kind of obstacles, from the lack of availability of equipment, transports, lights and the inability to use Cinecittà at the time used as a shelter for the displaced, Rossellini and his crew improvised shooting in the old Capitani theater, in Avignonesi street, behind Tritone street, realizing at the end of a movie even more intense and real.
Fellini had several difficulties in the realization of this film, which was rejected by all the producers and distributors, because considered non-commercially appealing. Then movie was presented at the 15th International Venice Film Festival, where it wasn’t positively reviwed by the “marxist intellectuals” rejected the film on ideological grounds, particularly objecting to what they considered Christian notions of conversion and redemption.Then was presented to the French audience where The Road obtained a great success.
De Santis had the idea for this film while he was at Milan Central Station waiting for the train to Rome, he heard some rice weeders singing while they were also awaiting for their trains and he was completely fascinated.
