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Vittorio De Sica: Staging Life

2026 · 100 min

A warm, reflective portrait that moves gently through archives and memories, inviting you to look closely at a life devoted to seeing the world.

Overview: A documentary feature film about Vittorio De Sica, one of the greatest masters of world cinema. Through a new access to his family, rare archives and testimonies of contemporary artists and filmmakers from the entire world, the ilm retraces his life, his work and legacy. An intimate portrait of an author able to transform the observation of the real in an universal emotion and reveals the modernity of a gaze which keeps on illuminating cinema and our way of seeing the world.

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Tone: warmstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: art
memory
family
identity
work
Places: big city
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: documentary
true story
ensemble
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex none

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Action	0
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Humour	3
Realism	9
Romance	1
Tension	1
Darkness	2
Complexity	5
Emotional weight	6

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Genres: documentary
Directed by: Francesco Zippel
Written by: Francesco Zippel
Starring: Vittorio De Sica, Christian De Sica, Isabella Rossellini, Eleonora Baldwin, Ruben Östlund, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, Brando De Sica
Cinematography: Marco Tomaselli
Runtime: 100 min
Country: Italy
Languages: French, English, Italian, Persian

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