Dino Risi’s Neorealist Documentaries, Program 1

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1848. 1948. Italy. Directed by Dino Risi

This first program of Dino Risi’s virtually unknown neorealist documentaries, made between 1946 and 1950, centers on a Milanese war orphanage, a funeral in Tigullio, the renovation of the Cathedral of Milan, and a centennial commemoration of Italy’s war of independence in 1848. During the Second World War, Risi was a practicing psychiatrist and an assistant to the filmmakers Mario Soldati and Alberto Lattuada. After the war, he struck out on his own to make more than 20 indelibly humanistic portraits of life and culture in battle-scarred Italy. The program culminates in a meditation on the Five Days of Milan that sparked Italy’s war of independence in 1848; produced by Lattuada and Giorgio Strehler, founder of the Piccolo Teatro, the film is a tribute to revolutionaries of all social classes. All archival 35mm prints courtesy Cineteca Nazionale.

Verso la vita. 1946. Italy. Directed by Dino Risi. In Italian; English subtitles. 12 min.

Tigullio minore. 1947. Italy. Directed by Dino Risi. In Italian; English subtitles. 10 min.

La provincia del sette laghi. 1948. Italy. Directed by Dino Risi. In Italian; English subtitles. 10 min.

La fabbrica del Duomo. 1949. Italy. Directed by Dino Risi. In Italian; English subtitles. 10 min.

1848. 1948. Italy. Directed by Dino Risi. In Italian; English subtitles. 11 min.

This film accompanies Dino Risi.

Past events

Tue, Dec 20, 2016, 4:30 p.m.

MoMA, Floor T2, Theater 2

The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2
Thu, Dec 15, 2016, 4:30 p.m.

Introduced by Sergio Toffetti, Cineteca Nazionale

MoMA, Floor T2, Theater 2

The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2

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