| This lost masterpiece of Italian neorealism was directed by Marcello Pagliero, famous for playing the resistance leader tortured by the Nazis in Roberto Rossellini’s ROME OPEN CITY, and was scripted by Ennio Flaiano (La Dolce Vita, 8½), Suso Checchi D’Amico (THE LEOPARD, ROCCO AND HIS BROTHERS) and Cesare Zavattini (BICYCLE THIEVES, MIRACLE IN MILAN). |