The retrospective will gather the main and precursor Italian films of neorealism about post-war reality, poverty, hope, and human dignity. Viewers can expect 35mm Soviet distribution copies from the State Film Fund. Italian neorealism was born out of a desire to look at life without studio gloss and convenient illusions. After the war, cinema turned to the streets, queues, markets, working-class neighborhoods, poor families, the unemployed, children, and the elderly. The camera became more attentive to real spaces, non-professional faces, random gestures, and those situations where a private fate unexpectedly reveals the state of an entire country. The program includes films by Roberto Rossellini, Vittorio De Sica, Giuseppe De Santis, Pietro Germi, Mario Camerini, Renato Castellani, and Alessandro Blasetti. Among them are chronicles of the Resistance, stories of migration, unemployment, family poverty, peasant labor, hope, and everyday survival. Viewers will see "Four Steps in the Clouds," "Rome, Open City," "Bitter Rice," "Bicycle Thieves," "The Road of Hope," "Rome at 11 O'Clock," "Two Cents Worth of Hope," and "Dreams on the Road." The current Moscow program is presented on KUDAGO.