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  1. May 19, 2024 · Roberto Rossellini was one of the most widely known post-World War II motion-picture directors of Italy. His films Roma città aperta (1945; Open City) and Paisà (1946; Paisan) focussed international attention on the Italian Neorealist movement in films.

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    • Rome Open City. Directed by Roberto Rossellini • 1945 • Italy. Starring Aldo Fabrizi, Anna Magnani, Marcello Pagliero. This was Roberto Rossellini’s revelation, a harrowing drama about the Nazi occupation of Rome and the brave few who struggled against it.
    • Paisan. Directed by Roberto Rossellini • 1946 • Italy. Starring Carmela Sazio, Robert Van Loon, Dots M. Johnson. Roberto Rossellini’s follow-up to his breakout ROME OPEN CITY was the ambitious, enormously moving PAISAN, which consists of six episodes set during the liberation of Italy at the end of World ...
    • Germany Year Zero. Directed by Roberto Rossellini • 1948 • France, Italy, West Germany. Starring Edmund Meschke, Ernst Pittschau, Ingetraud Hinze.
    • L’amore. Directed by Roberto Rossellini • 1948 • Italy. Roberto Rosselini directs Anna Magnani in two short films about love and loneliness. In the first, a woman makes a last-ditch attempt to save her relationship over the phone.
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  3. Nov 10, 2006 · With the vast majority of his films unavailable for home rental, the father of Italian neo-realism and Isabella Rossellini has been reduced to little more than a cinephile cult figure, a faded...

  4. After his Neorealist Trilogy, Rossellini produced two films now classified as the 'Transitional films': L'Amore (1948) (with Anna Magnani) and La macchina ammazzacattivi (1952), on the capability of cinema to portray reality and truth (with recalls of commedia dell'arte ).

  5. This list contains all films by Italian director Roberto Rossellini. Note #1: Les Sept Péchés Capitaux (1952), Siamo Donne (1953), Amori Di Mezzo Secolo (1954) and Ro.Go.Pa.G. (1963) are directed by many directors and Rossellini was one of them. Note #2: Desiderio (1946) is co-directed by Marcello Pagliero.

  6. In 1945, Roberto Rossellini was hailed "The Father of Neorealism" with his first international success "Rome, Open City" which was consistent with the neorealist prescription. His next two movies, "Paisan" and "Germany, Year Zero" likewise did the same.

  7. Bergman and Rossellini made a number of films together, including Stromboli (1949) and Voyage in Italy (1953). Voyage inspired the members of the French new wave to name Rossellini the "father of modern cinema," widening the scope of his supposed paternity. The new wave's adulation did not stem primarily from his direct reproduction of reality ...