Posted on August 10, 2016 |
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Ingrid Bergman in Her Own Words / Jag är Ingrid (2015)
Biography | Documentary
A captivating look behind the scenes of the remarkable life of a young Swedish girl who became one of the most celebrated actresses of American and World cinema.
Starring: Ingrid Bergman, Pia Lindström, Roberto Rossellini, Isotta Rossellini, Isabella Rossellini, Fiorella Mariani
Director: Stig Björkman
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Tags: Fiorella Mariani, Ingrid Bergman, Isabella Rossellini, Isotta Rossellini, Pia Lindström, Roberto Rossellini, Stig Björkman
Posted on January 2, 2015 |
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Paisà / Paisan (1946)
Drama
Six vignettes follow the Allied invasion from July 1943 to winter 1944, from Sicily north to Venice.
Starring: Carmela Sazio, Gar Moore, William Tubbs
Director: Roberto Rossellini
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Posted on October 11, 2013 |
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India: Matri Bhumi (1959)
Documentary | Drama
The film consists of four episodes through which Roberto Rossellini’s impressions and feelings about India and its society emerge. The film opens with the story of an elephant driver getting married. This is followed by a labourer who has worked on the Irakud damn for seven years and who wants to leave the village; then there is an old peasant who saves a tiger’s life; finally, there is the story of the monkey which finds itself alone in the desert after its owner’s death. Rossellini went to India in 1957 to direct a documentary mini-series (L’India vista da Rossellini) for the Italian and French televisions. He also wanted to make a feature film. The drafted script (written with Iranian scriptwriter Fereyoun Hoveyda) completely changed as soon as he started to work with the young Indian woman Sonali Senroy Das Gupta. The feature film was shot in parallel to the documentary mini-series, with the same team.
Director: Roberto Rossellini
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Posted on October 8, 2013 |
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Europa '51 / Europe '51 (1952)
Drama
Irene Girard is an ambassador's wife and used to always live in luxury. After the dramatic death of her son, she feels guilty of having neglected him and feels compelled to help people in need who cross her path. One day she offers shelter to a man who is evading justice, and she ends being arrested herself. Her husband, for the sake of social propriety, arranges for a doctor to declare her insane. Irene escapes one prison to enter another, and to reflect on what sort of society she lives in.
Starring: Ingrid Bergman, Alexander Knox, Giulietta Masina, Ettore Giannini
Director: Roberto Rossellini
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Posted on October 3, 2013 |
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Stromboli / Stromboli, terra di Dio (1950)
Drama
Karen, a young woman from the baltic countries, marries fisherman Antonio to escape from a prisoners camp. But the life in Antonio's village, Stromboli, threatened by the vulcano, is a tough one and Karen can not get used to it.
Starring: Ingrid Bergman, Mario Vitale, Renzo Cesana
Director: Roberto Rossellini
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Posted on February 11, 2013 |
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Germania anno zero / Germany Year Zero (1948)
Drama
The concluding chapter of Roberto Rossellini's War Trilogy is the most devastating, a portrait of an obliterated Berlin, seen through the eyes of a twelve-year-old boy. Living in a bombed-out apartment building with his sick father and two older siblings, young Edmund is mostly left to wander unsupervised, getting ensnared in the black-market schemes of a group of teenagers and coming under the nefarious influence of a Nazi-sympathizing ex-teacher. Germany Year Zero (Deutschland im Jahre Null) is a daring, gut-wrenching look at the consequences of fascism, for society and the individual.
Starring: Edmund Moeschke, Ernst Pittschau, Ingetraud Hinze, Franz-Otto Krüger, Erich Gühne
Director: Roberto Rossellini
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Tags: Edmund Moeschke, Erich Gühne, Ernst Pittschau, Franz-Otto Krüger, Ingetraud Hinze, Roberto Rossellini
Posted on October 16, 2011 |
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Rome Open City / Roma, città aperta (1945)
Drama | War
Rome, 1944. Giorgio Manfredi, one of the leaders of the Resistance, is tracked down by the Nazis. He goes to his friend Francesco's, and asks Pina, Francesco's fiancée, for help. Pina must warn a priest, Don Pietro Pellegrini, that Giorgio needs to leave the town as soon as possible…
Starring: Anna Magnani, Aldo Fabrizi, Marcello Pagliero, Vito Annichiarico, Nando Bruno, Harry Feist, Giovanna Galletti
Director: Roberto Rossellini
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Tags: Aldo Fabrizi, Anna Magnani, Giovanna Galletti, Harry Feist, Marcello Pagliero, Nando Bruno, Roberto Rossellini, Vito Annichiarico
