Alessandro Blasetti (3 July 1900 – 1 February 1987) was an Italian film director who influenced Italian neorealism with the film Quattro passi fra le nuvole. He played himself in Luchino Visconti’s film Bellissima starred by Anna Magnani, a Roman mother who desires to make her daughter a filmstar in Cinecittà where Blasetti makes the screen test for the child actors.
Blasetti was born in Rome, where he also died. He was President of the Jury at the 1967 Cannes Film Festival. His 1969 film Simón Bolívar was entered into the 6th Moscow International Film Festival.[1]
Selected filmography
- Sun (1929)
- Nerone (1930)
- Resurrectio (1930)
- Terra madre (1931)
- La tavola dei poveri (1932)
- Palio! (1932)
- Il caso Haller (1933)
- 1860 (film) (1934)
- Vecchia Guardia (1934)
- Aldebaran (1935)
- The Countess of Parma (1936)
- Un’avventura di Salvator Rosa (1940)
- La corona di ferro (1941)
- La cena delle beffe (1941)
- Quattro passi fra le nuvole (1943)
- Un giorno nella vita (1946)
- Fabiola (1949)
- Prima comunione (1950)
- Altri tempi (1951)
- Peccato che sia una canaglia (1954)
- A Slice of Life (1954)
- La fortuna di essere donna (1956)
- Europa di notte (1959)
- Three Fables of Love (1962)
- Liolà (1963)
- Io, io, io… e gli altri (1966)
- Simón Bolívar (1969)