Post-WWII

His films like 'The Conformist' and 'Last Tango in Paris' deeply explore fascism's aftermath and the psychological scars of the post-war period on Italian society.

His masterpieces including 'Ashes and Diamonds' and 'A Generation' directly confront the devastation of WWII and Poland's struggle for identity in the post-war communist era.

A pioneer of Italian neorealism, his films like 'Rome, Open City' and 'Germany Year Zero' captured the raw, immediate reality of post-war European cities and their traumatized populations.