 The war came home to Italy in 1943 and the country was divided in bitter civil war.The film movement that emerged from the turmoil, characterised by Italian Neorealism, had little need of classical practitioners like Umberto Sclanizza and Giovacchino Forzano, whose careers never recovered from the association with Fascism.Demoralised and stricken by ill-health, he returned occasionally to theatre work before his death in Venice on 14 December 1951.