With the advent of World War II, many filmmakers all around the world choose to depict the reality rather than re-create it. Audiences were tired of movies with happy ending when the world was being becoming more corrupt by the second. They needed stories they could relate to. Every country had different ways of implementing the reality into their stories, but every realist filmmaker showed its audience something they could relate to. Some of the most prominent filmmakers from this movement were Jean Renoir from France and Vittoria de Sica from Italy. Even though their interpretation of realism differed in some aspects, their aim was to show the humanity in the most monstrous time humanity ever experienced.
Jean Renoir was one of the most