Alessandro Blasetti (3 July 1900 – 1 February 1987) was an Italian film director and screenwriter who influenced
Italian neorealism with the film
Quattro passi fra le nuvole. Blasetti was one of the leading figures in Italian cinema during the
Fascist era. He is sometimes known as the "father of Italian cinema" because of his role in reviving the struggling industry in the late 1920s.