A still shot from Rome, Open City, by Roberto Rossellini (1945)
Years active
1943–1952
Location
Italy
Major figures
Roberto Rossellini, Vittorio De Sica, Cesare Zavattini, Luchino Visconti, Giuseppe De Santis, Suso Cecchi d'Amico, Federico Fellini, Bruno Caruso, Michelangelo Antonioni
Influences
Poetic realism, Marxism, Christian humanism
Influenced
French New Wave, Cinema Novo, Iranian New Wave
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