Carlo Lizzani discusses the crisis and decadence of Neorealism in Italian cinema. In the fifties Rossellini seeks new ways to depict social change taking place in Italy, while upcoming talents such as Fellini, Antonioni and Lizzani use neorealism as a starting point for their personal probings. Meanwhile Neorealism spreads, giving rise to new schools of filmmaking in England, South America and France.
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