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Biography. Early life. Rossellini was born in Rome. His mother, Elettra ( née Bellan), was a housewife born in Rovigo, Veneto, and his father, Angiolo Giuseppe "Peppino" Rossellini, who owned a construction firm, [3] was born in Rome from a family originally from Pisa, Tuscany.
- 3 June 1977 (aged 71), Rome, Italy
- 1936–1977
- Film director, producer, screenwriter
Apr 4, 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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Jan 12, 2009 · Rossellini remains best known for “Open City” (1945), a story of anti-Nazi resistance set in the last days of the war in Europe and partly filmed in the streets of Rome.
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Italian filmmaker. Roberto Rossellini was born into a well-educated, vivacious bourgeois family in Rome. His self-proclaimed "zest to understand" the world around him was first cultivated by a salon of artists, writers, and musicians who filled the Rossellini family home each Sunday during his childhood and early adolescence.
Roberto Gastone Zeffiro Rossellini (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).
May 11, 2015 · But the name that will always be associated with neorealism is Roberto Rossellini, and most especially his Rome, Open City (1945) and Paisà (1946), two rough, grainy movies set in Italy during...
Rossellini broke out with ROME OPEN CITY, a shattering and vivid chronicle of the Nazi occupation of Italy’s capital, followed by PAISAN and GERMANY YEAR ZERO, which round out his celebrated War Trilogy.
