Roberto rossellini

Explore the groundbreaking films and artistic vision of Roberto Rossellini, one of the most influential directors in the history of cinema. Discover his innovative storytelling techniques and immerse yourself in the world of Italian neorealism.
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Motion Picture Director. He spent a comfortable childhood in the environment of the Roman upper middle class, his father, a building contractor, directed Roberto and his brother Renzo towards a humanistic education. The stability of the family falters when the mother leaves home with another man and moves to Varese...

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Diane Yoder
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In the late 1940s, the incandescent Hollywood star Ingrid Bergman found herself so stirred by the revolutionary neorealist films of Roberto Rossellini that she sent the director a letter, introducing herself and offering her talents. The resulting collaboration produced a series of films that are works of both sociopolitical concern and metaphysical melodrama, each starring Bergman as a woman experiencing physical dislocation and psychic torment in postwar Italy. It also famously led to a…

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L.B. Johnson