Giuseppe De Santis

00:48:27 its great successes abroad, and could hardly make its way

00:48:30 in the midst of a flood of films, American, French... that we loved

00:48:35 but they were not our cinema.

00:48:42 or dedicate myself to the movies.

00:48:46 And Peppe said to me: "Look, Carlo

00:48:54 to become a democratic and modern country.

00:48:58 And with his films, Peppe did this.

00:49:07 It looks like a pomelo, eh?

00:49:10 It's a mix, a graft between...

00:49:12 For us, between the orange and the citron, there's a second

00:49:22 Feel... It's huge! I've never seen it before.

00:49:25 Cedrangolo... how do you say that in Italian?

00:49:29 Then it's this!

00:50:49 The legacy by Giuseppe De Santis is loyalty.

00:50:57 The legacy of a particular moral ethic and of a lively sympathy.

00:51:03 I think that, sadly, he left very little legacy, because it is a type of Cinema

00:51:10 and more generally a cultural product that in Italy are by now untraceable.

00:51:22 it's not enough to be a director and to love cinema, as many believe.

00:51:28 Leopardi said, "He who loves one thing and ignores all others

00:51:36 He was right. Cinema should not be an isolated microcosm.

00:51:43 On the contrary, it should be open to the rest of the world

00:51:51 some of that richness; if not, it conveys only poverty.

00:52:14 The memory of Giuseppe De Santis lives on in educational activities

00:52:19 De Santis Golden Dolly to renew the attention he always gave to the young.