Francesco De Robertis

Italian screenwriter, film editor and director

Francesco De Robertis (16 October 1902 – 3 February 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.^[1]

Selected filmography

Director

• Men on the Sea Floor (1941)
• The Lovers of Ravello (1951)
• Heroic Charge (1952)
• Uomini ombra (1954)
• Mizar (Sabotaggio in mare) (1954)

Screenwriter

• The White Ship (1941)

References

1. Bondanella, p. 32

Bibliography

• Bondanella, Peter. A History of Italian Cinema. Continuum, 2009.

External links

• Francesco De Robertis at IMDb