Alessandro Blasetti

Biography

Alessandro Blasetti (3 July 1900 – 1 February 1987) was an Italian film director and screenwriter who influenced Italian neorealism with the film Quattro passi fra le nuvole. Blasetti was one of the leading figures in Italian cinema during the Fascist era. He is sometimes known as the "father of Italian cinema" because of his role in reviving the struggling industry in the late 1920s.

Directed

1. Too Bad She's Bad (1954) — Director
2. Four Steps in the Clouds (1942) — Director
3. What a Woman! (1956) — Director
4. Me, Me, Me... and the Others (1966) — Director
5. The Iron Crown (1941) — Director
6. First Communion (1950) — Director
7. The Jester's Supper (1942) — Director
8. 1860 (1934) — Director
9. The Anatomy of Love (1954) — Director
10. Times Gone By (1952) — Director
11. The Four Truths (1962) — Director
12. Fabiola (1949) — Director
13. Resurrection (1931) — Director
14. Love and Chatter (1958) — Director
15. Simón Bolívar (1969) — Director
16. Ettore Fieramosca (1938) — Director
17. Sole! (1929) — Director
18. Retroscena (1939) — Director
19. A Day in the Life (1946) — Director
20. An Adventure of Salvator Rosa (1939) — Director
21. The Table of the Poor (1932) — Director
22. Old Guard (1934) — Director
23. Mother Earth (1931) — Director
24. Nerone (1930) — Director
25. A Very Handy Man (1964) — Director
26. European Nights (1959) — Director
27. Palio (1932) — Director
28. No One Comes Back (1945) — Director
29. Aldebaran (1935) — Director
30. The Duchess of Parma (1937) — Director
31. I Love, You Love (1962) — Director
32. La fiammata (1952) — Director
33. The Haller Case (1933) — Director
34. Soldier's Girl (1967) — Director
35. Nel duomo di Milano (1947) — Director
36. Ippodromi all'alba (1950) — Director
37. Miracolo a Ferrara (1953) — Director
38. La caccia alla volpe nella campagna Romana (1938) — Director
39. La lunga strada del ritorno (1962) — Director
40. Assisi By Blasetti (1932) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Bellissima (1952) — Self
2. A Difficult Life (1961) — Self
3. The Four Truths (1962) — (segment "Le lièvre et le tortue")
4. Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita (2021) — Self (archive footage)