Giuseppe De Santis - The Artist, the Man

The documentary sets out to tell the story of a director who was able to attract the whole world’s attention and yet as a consequence of his political and aesthetic coherence was able to do far less work than he deserved. The story of a professor of cinema studies who earned the gratitude and affection of all his students. The story of a lover of the cinema who was able to unite his social and civil engagement with a capacity to entertain worthy of Hollywood. (Venice International Film Festival)