Francesco De Robertis
Italian film director and producer

Francesco De Robertis

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Italian film director and producer
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16 October 1902(San Marco in Lamis)
Death:
3 February 1959(Rome)
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Francesco De Robertis (1902–1959) was an Italian screenwriter, 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.

Selected filmography

Director

  • Men on the Sea Floor (1941)
  • Heroic Charge (1952)
  • Uomini ombra (1954)
  • Mizar (Sabotaggio in mare) (1954)

Screenwriter

  • The White Ship (1941)