Alessandro Blasetti

Alessandro Blasetti
Blasetti in 1965
Born	(1900-07-03)3 July 1900 Rome, Kingdom of Italy
Died	1 February 1987(1987-02-01) (aged 86) Rome, Italy
Occupation	Film director
Years active	1917–1981

Alessandro Blasetti (3 July 1900 – 1 February 1987) was an Italian film director and screenwriter who influenced Italian neorealism with the film Quattro passi fra le nuvole. Blasetti was one of the leading figures in Italian cinema during the Fascist era. He is sometimes known as the "father of Italian cinema" because of his role in reviving the struggling industry in the late 1920s.^[1]