
Vittorio De Seta (15 October 1923 – 28 November 2011) was an Italian cinema director and screenwriter, considered one of the Italian cinema's great imaginative realists of the 1960s. De Seta made ten short documentaries between 1954 and 1959, before directing his first feature-length film, Banditi a Orgosolo (Bandits of Orgosolo). His early documentaries focus on the everyday life of many of Sicily's poorest workers, and are notable for their lack of voice-over narration, quiet mood, and striking color.

In Calabria

Diario di un maestro

Diario di un maestro

Banditi a Orgosolo

Isole di fuoco

I dimenticati

Un giorno in Barbagia

Un uomo a metà

Lu tempu di li pisci spata

Pescherecci

Pastori di Orgosolo

Parabola d'oro

Contadini del mare

L'invitata

Solfarata

Lettere dal Sahara

Pasqua in Sicilia

Gela 1959: Pozzi a mare

Quando la scuola cambia

Il mondo perduto

All Human Rights for All

Articolo 23 (Pentedattilo)

Dedicato ad Antonino Uccello

La Sicilia rivisitata

Hong Kong, città di profughi