A Conversation about Italian Neo-Realism and Satyajit Ray

Italian Neo-realism shaped filmmaking around the world in the postwar period. For example, movies such as Rossellini’s Rome Open City (1945), De Sica’s Bicycle Thief (1948), and Visconti’s La Terra Terma (1948) had a tremendous impact in India, especially in the work of Satyajit Ray. Ray’s Apu Trilogy would go onto win awards at the Berlin, Cannes, and Venice Film Festivals and bring Indian art films to the global stage.