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    Roberto Rossellini

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  1. Roberto Gastone Zeffiro Rossellini [1] [2] (8 May 1906 – 3 June 1977) was an Italian film director, screenwriter and producer. He was one of the most prominent directors of the Italian neorealist cinema, contributing to the movement with films such as Rome, Open City (1945), Paisan (1946), and Germany, Year Zero (1948).

    • 3 June 1977 (aged 71), Rome, Italy
    • 1936–1977
    • Film director, producer, screenwriter
  2. Apr 4, 2024 · Roberto Rossellini (born May 8, 1906, Rome—died June 3, 1977, Rome) 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. The son of a successful sculptor and ...

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  3. Roberto Rossellini was a pioneer of neo-realism, one of the most influential directors of all time. He made classics like Rome, Open City, Paisan and Germany Year Zero, and had scandalous affairs with Ingrid Bergman and Sonali Senroy DasGupta.

    • January 1, 1
    • Rome, Lazio, Italy
    • January 1, 1
    • Rome, Lazio, Italy
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  5. May 17, 2018 · Roberto Rossellini was an Italian film director and a pioneer of neo-realism. He made documentaries, features, and TV shows, and had a turbulent personal life with Ingrid Bergman and Somali Das Gupta.

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    • 'Rome, Open City' (1945) IMDb Rating: 8.0/10. Although it was not the first neorealist movie ever made (Luchino Visconti's Ossessione was released in 1942 and inspires debate about whether or not it fits the genre), there is no doubt that Rossellini's film was one of the most remarkable; Oscar nom just proves that.
    • 'Il Generale Della Rovere' (1959) IMDb Rating: 7.9/10. Based on a novel by Indro Montanelli which drew inspiration from a true story, Il Generale Della Rovere is equally set in the year 1944.
    • 'Germany Year Zero' (1948) IMDb Rating: 7.8/10. The third installment of the War Trilogy, Germany Year Zero, provides an outlook inside the life of a young German boy (Edmund Moeschke) as he struggles with the difficult task of providing for his family at only 12 years of age in the aftermath of World War II in Berlin.
    • 'Paisan' (1946) IMDb Rating: 7.6/10. Paisan continues the director's critically acclaimed war trilogy by providing viewers with six different unconnected episodes that follow the Allied invasion from July 1943 to the end of 1944, when American military personnel attempted to interact with Italian locals in the push north as German forces are forced to retreat from Sicily to the delta of Po River.
  6. Explore the films of Roberto Rossellini, a founder of Italian neorealism and a pioneer of documentary-like authenticity and philosophical stringency. Watch his celebrated War Trilogy, his Bergman Trilogy, and his historical dramas on The Criterion Channel.

  7. Nov 15, 2006 · Roberto Rossellini (b. Italy, 1906–1977) is a key artist of the mid-twentieth century whose contribution to cinema—particularly in his stunning adaptations of Neorealist strategies ( Rome Open City [1945], Paisan [1946])—is inestimable and whose influence on other directors, such as Jean-Luc Godard and Martin Scorsese, is profound.

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