1. B Y: J U A N I G A R C Í A A N D A N D R E A M A RT Í N
EUROPEAN CINEMA AFTER
THE SECOND WORLD WAR
Activity A 103 Workshop 8.-
“The Art in Europe after the War”
3. GERMAN DIRECTORS EXILED IN USA
RUNNING AWAY FROM NAZISM
Germany had become an affiliate of Hollywood. The
majority of movies were originally from America and those
directed in Germany were represented by low quality novel
adaptations and classic remakes.
Billy Wilder Otto Preminger Ernst Lubitsch
4. ITALIAN NEOREALISM
• It is a film movement characterized by stories set
amongst the poor and the working class, filmed on
location, frequently using non-professional actors.
• Neorealism was a sign of cultural change and social
progress in Italy. Its films presented contemporary
stories and ideas
• Neorealism became famous globally in 1946 with
Roberto Rossellini's Rome, Open City. The Bicycle Thief
of Vittorio de Sicca (1948) is also representative of the
kind, and a story that details the hardships of working-
class life after the war.
6. 8 DECADES OF ITALIAN CINEMA
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YHh9NreG9w
7. NOUVELLE VAGUE (NEW WAVE)
• It was a movement in French cinema in the 1960s, led
by directors such as Claude Chabrol, Jean Luc Godard,
François Truffaut and Erich Rohmer, that abandoned
traditional narrative techniques in favor of greater use of
symbols and abstraction and dealt with themes of social
alienation, psychopathology and sexual love. This
movement was a kind of protest against commercial
cinema.
8. THE MOST EMBLEMATIC FILMS
Hiroshima mon amour (1959)
of Alain Resnais
Les Quatre Cents Coups (1959)
of Jean-Pierre Lêaud
9. THE MOST EMBLEMATIC FILMS
Jules et Jim (1962)
of François Truffaut
À bout de Souffle (1960)
of Jean-Luc Godard
12. PILAR MIRÓ
• She studied periodism and right, and she was graduated
in the Official cinema school, when she was teacher too.
• She worked in TVE since 1960. From here jumped to the
cinema world writing and directing some films.
13. PILAR MIRÓ
• In 1982 occupied the
position of General Director
of Cinematography until
1985. Later she directed
Werther. In 1986 returned to
occupied a politic charge
directing the Radiotelevisión
Española until 1989. In
1988 she inaugurated the
Buñuel studies
14. LUIS GARCÍA BERLANGA
• Debuted as director in
1951 with the film "Esa
pareja feliz". Its cinema is
characterized by its irony
and its satires about politic
and social differences. In
the Franco's dictatorship
he showed his ability to
taunt censorship with
situations and dialogues
not explicit but with
intelligent backlight.
15. LUIS GARCÍA BERLANGA
• His film Plácido was nominated for the better film of
speak not English Oscar in 1961.
16. PEDRO ALMODOVAR
• He is a Spanish film director,
screenwriter, producer and
former actor. He came to
prominence as a director and
screenwriter during La Movida of
Madrid, a popular cultural
renaissance that followed the
death of Spanish dictator
Francisco Franco.
• His first few films characterized
the sense of sexual and political
freedom of the period. He
established his own film
production company, El Deseo.
