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The Centro sperimentale di cinematografia (Experimental film centre or Italian National film school) was established in 1935 in Italy and aims to promote the art and technique of cinematography and film.

It is the oldest film school in Western Europe, founded in the city of Rome in 1935 during the Mussolini era, was and is still financed by the Italian government and focuses on education, research, publication and theory.

The center is the most important Italian institution for training, research and experimentation in the field of cinema, intended in its widest sense, of films, documentaries, fiction and animation.

Among his old alumni are:

Directors:

• Michelangelo Antonioni

• Giuseppe De Santis

• Luigi Zampa

• Pietro Germi

• Francesco Maselli

• Nanni Loy

• Folco Quilici

• Christian Filippella

• Emidio Greco

• Carlo Verdone

• Francesca Archibugi

• Liliana Cavani

• Umberto Lenzi

Actors:

• Alida Valli

• Carla Del Poggio

• Andrea Checchi

• Claudia Cardinale

• Domenico Modugno

• Giorgio Albertazzi

• Francesca Neri

• Enrico Lo Verso

Cinematographers:

• Pasqualino De Santis

• Nestor Almendros

• Vittorio Storaro