Vittorio De Seta

“Il mondo perduto” collects six documentaries that Vittorio De Seta shot in 1954 in Sicily and four other important short films that ...

Sicily, Granitola, 1955. At the first light of dawn, the fishermen set out in their boats for open water, timing the rhythm of their oars to ...

A short anthropological documentary from 1954. Director De Seta was fortunate enough to document swordfish fishing; by 1956 it no longer existed.

Filming amid the flaxen wheat fields of Sicily, Vittorio De Seta documents the everyday rituals of farmers during harvest time.

Harshness and beauty exist side by side in this look at the lives of sulfur mine workers and their families in southern Italy.