Cinema Of Italy
The history of Italian cinema began just a few months after the Lumière brothers had patented their Cinematographe, when Pope Leo XIII was filmed for a few seconds in the act of blessing the camera.
Read more about Cinema Of Italy: Early Years, Avant-garde, Cinecittà, Neorealism, Pink Neorealism and Comedy, Peplum (aka Sword and Sandal), The Spaghetti Western, Auteurs, Sophia Loren's Academy Award, Thriller/Horror, Poliziotteschi, The 1980s Crisis, 1990 To Present
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