Roberto Rossellini

Roberto ROSSELLINI (1906-1977) made his first feature films in a film industry controlled by Mussolini's son Vittorio. After the war, he made the anti-fascist Roma, città aperta, a film which was later regarded as the start of Neorealism. Paisà and Germania anno zero continue on this path. In the early fifties, Rossellini married Ingrid Bergman, which resulted in a series of important films, among them Viaggio in Italia (1954). With a new relationship (with the Indian scriptwriter Sonali Das Gupta) a new period dawned for Rossellini as a documentary maker (India).

Filmography

(selection) La nave bianca (1941), Un pilota ritorna (1942), L’uomo della croce (1943), Roma città aperta (1945), Paisà (1946), Germania anno zero (1947), L’amore (ep. Una voce umana, 1948), La macchina ammazzacattivi (1948), Stromboli terra di Dio (1950), Francesco giullare di Dio (1950), Europa 51 (1952), Dov’è la libertà (1953), Viaggio in Italia (1954), Giovanna d’Arco al rogo (1954), La paura (1954), Le psychodrame (1956), India (1958), Il generale Della Rovere (1959), Era notte a Roma (1960), Viva l’Italia (1960), Vanina Vanini (1961), Anima nera (1962), La presa del potere da parte di Luigi XIV (tv, 1966), Atti degli apostoli (tv, 1968), Socrate (tv, 1970), Pascal (tv, 1971), Agostino d’Ippona (tv, 1972), Anno uno (1974), Il Messia (1975).

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