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.

Directed

1. Bandits of Orgosolo (1961) — Director
2. The Age of Swordfish (1955) — Director
3. Islands of Fire (1955) — Director
4. A Day in Barbagia (1958) — Director
5. Sea Countrymen (1955) — Director
6. Easter in Sicily (1955) — Director
7. The Forgotten (1959) — Director
8. Fishing Boats (1958) — Director
9. Golden Parable (1955) — Director
10. Orgosolo’s Shepherds (1958) — Director
11. Sulfur Mines (1955) — Director
12. Diary of a Teacher (1973) — Director
13. Almost a Man (1966) — Director
14. The Uninvited (1969) — Director
15. Letters from Sahara (2006) — Director
16. In Calabria (1993) — Director
17. Diary of a School Teacher (1973) — Director
18. Gela 1959: Pozzi a mare (1960) — Director
19. Quando la scuola cambia (1979) — Director
20. The Lost World (2009) — Director
21. All Human Rights for All (2008) — Director
22. Articolo 23 (Pentedattilo) (2008) — Director
23. Dedicato ad Antonino Uccello (2003) — Director
24. La Sicilia rivisitata (1981) — Director
25. Hong Kong, città di profughi (1980) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Lomax the Songhunter (2004) — Self
2. Cinéma et Réalité (1967) — Self
3. Mark Donskoy, King and Jester (2011)
4. What Do You Know About Me (2009) — Self
5. Détour De Seta (2005) — Self
6. Tornare a Orgosolo (1997) — Himself
7. Vittorio De Seta, la grammatica del documentario (2008) — Himself
8. Vittorio De Seta: The Filmmaker Is an Athlete (2010) — Self
9. Vittorio De Seta: Lo sguardo in ascolto (1995) — Self