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Roberto Rossellini - what members say

Journey To Italy review by Savage from London, England

A genuine original 25 November 2006
...Roberto Rossellini had long been dissatisfied with conventional methods of cinema story-telling and had, in his films with his then-wife, Ingrid Bergman, (and those around them) ... Read customer review

Francesco, Giullare Di Dio review by from Croydon, England

Simple but effective 30 January 2006
...h pleasure, then, that I can recommend this Italian film from 1950, directed by Roberto Rossellini just a few years after his contrasting masterpiece, Rome, Open City. It compris... Read customer review

Era Notte A Roma review by A customer from Gateshead

era notte a roma 10 June 2008
...I found this disappointing for a Roberto Rossellini film. It is not in the same league as his other films. A very ordinary film from a director of many extra-ordinary films. ... Read customer review

Roberto Rossellini - filmography

Night In Rome (2000)
Starring: London Philharmonic Orchestra
Director: Roberto Rossellini
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In keeping with his previous film Generale Della Rovere, filmmaker Robert Rossellini pursues a wartime theme in his 145-minute personal epic Era Notte a Roma. The story concerns three Allied POWS, who escape from their camp and hide out in Rome. The trio is given shelter by a beautiful young woman. ..read more »

40% from 3 members
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Anima Nera (1961)
Starring: Tony Brown, Nadja Tiller
Director: Roberto Rossellini
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Adriano Zucchelli (Vittorio Gassman) is a man with a past and he has hopes to keep it behind him. It looks like his ambitions of burying his checkered history are coming into fruition as he is getting married but when an unexpected inheritance comes his way, his past comes back to haunt him.

40% from 3 members
Due for release on 26th March 2012

Era Notte A Roma on DVD (1960)
Starring: Giovanna Ralli, Renato Salvatori, Leo Genn
Director: Roberto Rossellini
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1960s Italian war drama directed by Roberto Rossellini. When three Allied POWS escape from their camp and hide out in Rome, they are given shelter by a beautiful young woman. Now that they finally have something tangible to fight over, the three prisoners' national chauvinism (one is Russian, one ..read more »

67% from 126 members

Il Generale della Rovere on DVD (1959)
Starring: Vittorio De Sica, Hannes Messemer, Vittorio Caprioli
Director: Roberto Rossellini
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Based on an article by the Italian journalist Indro Montanelli, Rossellini casts Vittorio De Sica as confidence trickster Emanuele Bardone who helps to save Italians arrested by the Gestapo or at least pretending to do so in exchange for money or gifts from their family. When he attempts to save a ..read more »

73% from 26 members

Joan of Arc at the Stake (1954)
Starring: Ingrid Bergman, Tullio Carminati, Giacinto Prandelli
Director: Roberto Rossellini
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It was once said of Ingrid Bergman that she'd played Joan of Arc so often that she wouldn't be satisfied until she was burned at the stake. Actually, nobody ever said that, but someone should have. Directed by Bergman's then-husband Roberto Rossellini, Joan at the Stake is a nonmusical adaptation ..read more »

20% from 2 members
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Journey To Italy on DVD (1953)
Starring: Ingrid Bergman, George Sanders, Leslie Daniels
Director: Roberto Rossellini
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George Sanders and Ingrid Bergman play Alexander and Katherine Joyce, a bored married couple in Naples, waiting around for an inherited house to be sold. With time on their hands the cracks begin to show in their marriage. Rejecting Hollywood norms, Rossellini uses periods of pure cinematography, ..read more »

62% from 990 members

The Machine That Kills Bad People (1952)
Starring: Gennaro Pisano, Marilyn Buferd, William Tubbs
Director: Roberto Rossellini
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Rossellini's rarely-seen satirical fantasy, now restored, about a photographer whose magic camera has the power to kill the greedy and the corrupt.

53% from 3 members
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Europa '51 (1952)
Starring: Ingrid Bergman
Director: Roberto Rossellini
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When her son dies Irene's life is turned around, and she suddenly has her eyes opened to the suffering and inequality all around her.

54% from 9 members
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Stromboli (1950)
Starring: Ingrid Bergman, Mario Vitale, Renzo Cesana
Director: Roberto Rossellini
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A poor, homeless woman marries a Sicilian fisherman in order to find a new life for herself after the end of World War II. To her dismay, she finds that she has given up one form of imprisonment for another.

62% from 26 members
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Francesco, Giullare Di Dio on DVD (1950)
Starring: Aldo Fabrizi
Director: Roberto Rossellini
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Francesco, Giullare Di Dio is told in a series of disconnected vignettes, each documenting different daily events and experiences of the Franciscans.

66% from 331 members

Germany Year Zero on DVD (1948)
Starring: Alexandra Manys, Hans Sangen
Director: Roberto Rossellini
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A desperate thirteen-year-old boy scrambles for survival in the nightmarishly dilapidated remains of 1945 Berlin, trying to support his sick father by thieving and scavenging in the streets. When he encounters a kindly former schoolteacher, the old man reveals himself to be a devious Nazi ..read more »

67% from 277 members

Paisan (1946)
Starring: Carmela Sazio, Robert Van Loon, Benjamin Emanuel
Director: Roberto Rossellini
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Six vignettes follow the Allied invasion from July 1943 to winter 1944, from Sicily north to Venice. Communication is fragile. A woman leads an Allied patrol through a mine field; she dies protecting a G.I., but the Yanks think she killed him. A street urchin steals shoes from a G.I. who tracks him ..read more »

67% from 23 members
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Rome, Open City on DVD (1945)
Starring: Anna Magnani, Aldo Fabrizi, Anna Magnani/Aldo Fabrizi
Director: Roberto Rossellini
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Based on true the story of Don Morosi, a priest and Resistance worker shot by the Germans in wartime Rome, Roberto Rossellini's first feature after the Mussolini era has become synonymous with Italian neo-realism. Shot on the locations where the events actually happened, using hand-held cameras, ..read more »

71% from 1,871 member

Roberto Rossellini facts

5 most recent films

Night In Rome - 2.0 stars
Anima Nera - 2.0 stars
Era Notte A Roma - 3.5 stars
Il Generale della Rovere - 3.5 stars
Joan of Arc at the Stake - 1.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Rome, Open City - 3.5 stars
Era Notte A Roma - 3.5 stars
Germany Year Zero - 3.5 stars
Francesco, Giullare Di Dio - 3.5 stars
Journey To Italy - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Joan of Arc at the Stake - 1.0 stars
Anima Nera - 2.0 stars
Night In Rome - 2.0 stars
Europa '51 - 2.5 stars
The Machine That Kills Bad People - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Ingrid Bergman - 4 times - show films
Hannes Messemer - 3 times - show films
Vittorio De Sica - 2 times - show films
Aldo Fabrizi - 2 times - show films
Vittorio Caprioli - 2 times - show films