Cesare Zavattini

  • May 9, 2014 / 18:00
  • May 30, 2014 / 18:00

Director: Carlo Lizzani
Italy, 68, 2003, color
Italian with Turkish subtitles

This "portrait" of Zavattini is a travel through the entire history of Italian cinema from the 1930s to the 1970s. It also reveals the many mysteries of the Neorealist season, the era that ushered Italian cinema onto world stage, but which had already laid down its foundations in the preceding war years, and which cast its shadow over many works made during the following decades. Only through an examination of the complex, sometimes contradictory, and even provocative personality of Zavattini, can the audience come to a better understanding of the coexistence of imagination and reality that was one of the main characteristics of Neorealism.

 

Rome, Open City

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Paisan

Paisan

Germany Year Zero

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Stromboli

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Umberto D

Umberto D

Bread, Love and Dreams

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I Vitelloni

I Vitelloni

Journey to Italy

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Banditi a Orgosolo

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Cesare Zavattini

Cesare Zavattini

History of Italian Cinema

History of Italian Cinema

Memory Building Memories / Memory Room / Memento Mori

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Each memory tells an intimate story; each collection presents us with the reality of containing an intimate story as well. The collection is akin to a whole in which many memories and stories of the artist, the viewer, and the collector are brought together. At the heart of a collection is memory, nurtured from the past and projecting into the future.

Istanbul’s Historical Peninsula in 18th and 19th Century Paintings

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With the Topkapı Palace, the center of political authority until the 19th century, and many other examples of classical Ottoman and Byzantine architecture included in its premise the Historical Peninsula is the heart of the Empire. 

Is he sping on us?  <br>Vajiko Chachkhiani

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Vajiko Chachkhiani

Pera Museum, in collaboration with Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV), is one of the main venues for this year’s 15th Istanbul Biennial from 16 September to 12 November 2017.