Francesco De Robertis (1902–1959) was an Italian
screenwriter
A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based.
...
,
film editor and
director. His semi-documentary film-making style of the early 1940s has been credited as an influence on the development of
Italian neorealism.
[Bondanella, p. 32]
Selected filmography
Director
* ''
Men on the Sea Floor
''Men on the Sea Floor'' (Italian:''Uomini sul fondo'') is a 1941 Italian drama film directed by Francesco De Robertis. De Robertis specialised in semi-documentary films, in this case portraying the crew of an Italian submarine trapped after an ac ...
'' (1941)
* ''
The Lovers of Ravello'' (1951)
* ''
Heroic Charge'' (1952)
* ''
Uomini ombra'' (1954)
* ''
Mizar (Sabotaggio in mare)'' (1954)
Screenwriter
* ''
The White Ship'' (1941)
References
Bibliography
*Bondanella, Peter. ''A History of Italian Cinema''. Continuum, 2009.
External links
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1902 births
1959 deaths
Italian film editors
Italian film directors
20th-century Italian screenwriters
Italian male screenwriters
20th-century Italian male writers
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