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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).
- 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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2 Videos. 14 Photos. The master filmmaker Roberto Rossellini, as one of the creators of neo-realism, is one of the most influential directors of all time. His neo-realist films influenced France's nouvelle vague movement in the 1950s and '60s that changed the face of international cinema.
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- Rome, Lazio, Italy
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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.
- 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.
May 13, 2019 · The 32nd Best Director of All-Time: Roberto Rossellini. Rossellini. Rossellini is one half of the Truffaut/Godard of Italian Neorealism movement with De Sica and I’m not sure there’s a Bicycle Thieves without Rossellini.
May 17, 2018 · ROSSELLINI, Roberto. Nationality: Italian. Born: Rome, 8 May 1906. Family: Married. 1) Marcella de Marquis (marriage annulled), two children; 2) actress Ingrid Bergman, 1950 (divorced), three children, including actress Isabella; 3) screenwriter Somali Das Gupta (divorced), one son.
