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Italian actor and director

Christian De Sica (Italian pronunciation:[ˈkristjandeˈsiːka]; born 5 January ) is an Italian actor, comedian, television presenter, and filmmaker.

Life

De Sica was born in Rome, the second son of Italian director Vittorio De Sica and Spanish actress María Mercader. His first cousin once removed was Ramón Mercader, the murderer of Leon Trotsky. After attending Liceo classico in Rome, where he had Carlo Verdone as his deskmate, De Sica worked in a hotel in Venezuela, where he began his career as an artist. He enrolled in Lettere (Literature and Arts) at La Sapienza university () but did not graduate.

He was attracted to music, and participated in the Sanremo Festival singing "Mondo mio" ("My World") (). However, the results convinced him to follow in his father's footsteps and devote himself to acting. De Sica developed his own style of comedy and entertainment also in Rai television shows, such as Bambole, non c'è una lira, which gave him a large success in

Acting career

With his father's help, he was able to take his first steps in the movie world with such teachers and mentors as Roberto Rossellini (Blaise Pascal, ), Vittorio De Sica himself (A Brief Vacation, ), Pupi Avati (House of Pleasure for Women, ) and Salvatore Samperi ( Liquirizia and Chaste and Pure).

He married Silvia Verdone, sister of Carlo, with whom he had two children, Brando and Mariarosa. He achieved fame in the s: in Borotalco was released, together with his brother-in-law Verdone, the

Christoph Huber

A popular and brilliant actor, Vittorio De Sica proved himself an outstanding director as well. Unfortunately, his reputation as a filmmaker is defined almost exclusively via his famous neorealist classics. Big mistake. A note on the dynamics on film history.

&#;Ze wrong man has escaped!&#;

These immortal last words&#;uttered by the titular trickster (played by Peter Sellers) in Vittorio De Sica&#;s Caccia alla volpe (After the Fox, ) as he realizes that his disguise is so cunning he has fooled himself (maybe you have to see it to fully appreciate the gag)&#;just seemed a great punchline to me when I saw the film several times as a kid. It was just one of those comedies they used to play every other year during the post-midnight marathon national television habitually programmed on New Year&#;s Eve. Only later, I kept flashing back to that moment whenever I thought about the conundrum of Vittorio De Sica, misunderstood director. I fell prey early to that misunderstanding myself: During my teenage years, when&#;a budding cinephile&#;I first delved into tomes about film history and belatedly grasped who the director of Caccia alla volpe was. Let&#;s just say, I found it hard to realign this colorful romp with the concept of &#;De Sica&#; I encountered in the history books&#;how come the acclaimed director of serious Italian neorealist classics presented this gift for this young Sellers fan, weaned on cherished reruns of Blake Edwards’ Pink Panther films?

Don&#;t get me wrong: I haven&#;t seen Caccia alla volpe for some 30 years, but back then I just found it (repeatedly) hilarious. The confusion started later, when I was confronted with Vittorio De Sica, key auteur of neorealism, and seemingly given to altogether loftier ambitions. In retrospect, that construct probably should have been filed under &#;De Sica&#;, one of those received-wisdom cement blocks that make up the mainstream of film history but don&#;t neces