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Roberto Rossellini

Birthday: Born in 1906-05-08 in Rome, Italy

Deathday: 1977-06-03

Roberto Rossellini (8 May 1906 – 3 June 1977) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. Rossellini was one of the directors of the Italian neorealist cinema, contributing films such as Roma città aperta (Rome, Open City 1945) to the movement.

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Mentiras verdaderas

Character: Self (archive footage)

Daily interviews discussing the guest's personal lives and national contingency....

Un film et son époque

Character: Self (archive footage)

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L'età del ferro

Character: Narrator

A comprehensive overview of the entire Iron Age from the time of the Ertuscans to the present day....

L'India vista da Rossellini

Character: Himself

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Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

Character: Self

A talk show presented by Michel Drucker...

Cinépanorama

Character: Self

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La lotta dell'uomo per la sua sopravvivenza

Character: Himself, host

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Cinéma et Réalité

Character: Self

In this documentary, giants of italian cinema such as Rossellini, De Sica, Fellini and Zavattini talk about the importance of cinema after WW2, and about huge moments of social rebellion. This movie gives the floor to the creators of italian neorealism....

Addo' sta Rossellini?

Character: Self (archive footage)

A film about Alfonso, who was the protagonist of the third episode of Paisà (the street urchin who steals the American soldier's shoes). A reflection on neorealism, filmed with Michele Schiavino and Maria Paola Fadda, third special Sony video prize at the Locarno Film Festival....

Amazing Monsieur Fabre

Character: (uncredited)

It centres on the life of the entomologist Jean-Henri Fabre and his total devotion to studying insect behavior, travelling from Avignon to Paris, from Paris to his death in Sérignan. He is honoured by the French president Raymond Poincaré and his patience, obstinacy and knowledge are also recognised by Napoleon III, the publisher Charles Delagrave and the philosopher John Stuart Mill. They reach their climax in his book, Souvenirs entomologiques....

Once Upon a Time... 'Rome, Open City'

Character: Self (archive footage)

Television documentary about the making of Roberto Rossellini's 1945 film "Rome, Open City"....

Anna Magnani - Recitare la verità

Character: (archive footage)

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The Treasure of His Youth: The Photographs of Paolo Di Paolo

Character: Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

The life of the legendary Italian photojournalist Paolo Di Paolo through his photographs, which capture the essence of a fascinating and turbulent Italy, the one inhabited by Anna Magnani and Pier Paolo Pasolini, a country that no longer exists....

Interview with Salvador Allende: Power and Reason

Character: Self - Interviewer

An interview with the president of Chile conducted by Roberto Rossellini in 1971, but broadcast only after his death....

Isabella Rossellini - Aus dem Leben eines Schmetterlings

Character: Himself

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Rossellini Through His Own Eyes

Character: Self (archive footage)

Made up almost entirely of archival interviews with Italian film director Roberto Rossellini (with audio interviews playing over various behind-the-scene bits and archival footage) the director recalls his early life, how he got into film, his political beliefs and how they were formed....

Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words

Character: Self (archive footage)

A personal and captivating account of the extraordinary life and work of Ingrid Bergman (1915-82), a young Swedish woman who became one of the most celebrated actresses in world cinema....

Med Ingrid Bergman på Berns

Character:

Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini at a gala held in Sweden in 1953....

Birth of a Nation

Character: Self

Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades....

ORG

Character: Self (archive footage)

Explores the complex relationship between the spirit, body, and mind. The film is a nightmare with closed eyes because it counts among the most terrible moments of my life, my second exile, which lasted a very long time. Inspired by an ancient Hindu legend....

My Name Is Anna Magnani

Character: Self (archive footage)

Traces the life of Anna Magnani, her creations, her successes, her triumphs, her boycotted career, her nonconformism, her anxieties, her generosity ... Punctuated with photos that tell her career in theater and cinema, Extracts of films, this documentary portrait also gives the floor to his friends and relatives, from Roberto Rossellini to Marcello Mastroianni, through Federico Fellini....

Ingrid Bergman Remembered

Character: Self (archive footage)

Her name conjures up beauty, grace, talent and style. One of the greatest actresses of her time, she is best remembered for a natural and vulnerable persona which was so genuine and alluring. Her cinematic contributions produced such classics as "Casablanca," "Gaslight" and "Anastasia." But Ingrid's story goes deeper than the triumphs of her movie career....

The War of the Volcanoes

Character: Self (archive footage)

In 1948, a fan letter arrived for director Roberto Rossellini from Ingrid Bergman, one of Hollywood’s biggest stars; after a meeting in New York, Rossellini invited Bergman to Italy to work on a project. Meanwhile, Anna Magnani, one of Italy’s biggest stars and Rossellini’s longtime lover, was furious. When the Rossellini/Bergman project was announced as a tale set on Stromboli, one of the volcanic Aeolian Islands, Magnani quickly set up her own Aeolian project, financed by Hollywood, to be call...

General Della Rovere

Character: Man in Gestapo office (uncredited)

The Gestapo forces con man Victorio Bardone to impersonate a dead partisan general in order to extract information from his fellow inmates....

A Brief Encounter with the Rossellini Family

Character: Self

Commissioned by a Swedish newspaper, this news-reel like short on the life of the famous Swedish actress is a kind of ‘at home with Ingrid Bergman’ reportage, depicting her at work and spending time with her children. Kort möte med familjen Rossellini happened to be made during the production of Journey to Italy in Naples and on Capri, thereby providing us with a unique record from the making of this legendary film....

The Rossellinis

Character: Self (archive footage)

A laid-back journey in search of one of the world’s most fascinating families, observed and examined from within its most intimate relationships, where the truth and depth of a memoir meet the ironic tone of an indie comedy....


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