Roberto Rossellini Movies

  • 1959
    India: Matri Bhumi

    India: Matri Bhumi

    India: Matri Bhumi

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    Several stories depicting the landscapes and fauna of India are mixed with documentary footage.

    India: Matri Bhumi
  • 1993
    Rossellini Through His Own Eyes

    Rossellini Through His Own Eyes

    Rossellini Through His Own Eyes

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    Made up almost entirely of archival interviews with Italian film director Roberto Rossellini (with audio interviews playing over various...

    Rossellini Through His Own Eyes
  • 1962
    Benito Mussolini

    Benito Mussolini

    Benito Mussolini

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    Benito Mussolini
  • 2009
    L'ultimo Pulcinella

    L'ultimo Pulcinella

    L'ultimo Pulcinella

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    An Italian actor (Massimo Ranieri) and his son (Domenico Balsamo) stage a show in a Parisian theater.

    L'ultimo Pulcinella
  • 2012
    The War of the Volcanoes

    The War of the Volcanoes

    The War of the Volcanoes

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    In 1948, a fan letter arrived for director Roberto Rossellini from Ingrid Bergman, one of Hollywood’s biggest stars; after a meeting in New...

    The War of the Volcanoes
  • 1972
    Augustine of Hippo

    Augustine of Hippo

    Augustine of Hippo

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    A biography of St. Augustine as he enters the episcopacy and deals with heresy and the decline of the Western Roman Empire.

    Augustine of Hippo
  • 1941
    The White Ship

    The White Ship

    The White Ship

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    Although released anonymously, as was the custom with all films produced by the Italian Navy, La Nave Bianca is the first feature-length effort...

    The White Ship
  • 1954
    Orient Express

    Orient Express

    Orient Express

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    On December 24th the Orient Express gets snowbound near a little mountain village and its passengers are forced to spend some time there, mingling...

    Orient Express
  • 1953
    Med Ingrid Bergman på Berns

    Med Ingrid Bergman på Berns

    Med Ingrid Bergman på Berns

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    Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini at a gala held in Sweden in 1953.

    Med Ingrid Bergman på Berns
  • 2010
    Isabella Rossellini - Aus dem Leben eines Schmetterlings

    Isabella Rossellini - Aus dem Leben eines Schmetterlings

    Isabella Rossellini - Aus dem Leben eines Schmetterlings

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    She is one of the icons of our time: Isabella Rossellini, award-winning actress, supermodel, experimental filmmaker, feminist. She was married to...

    Isabella Rossellini - Aus dem Leben eines Schmetterlings
  • 1967
    Cinéma et Réalité

    Cinéma et Réalité

    Cinéma et Réalité

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    In this documentary, giants of italian cinema such as Rossellini, De Sica, Fellini and Zavattini talk about the importance of cinema after WW2, and...

    Cinéma et Réalité
  • 1953
    The Chicken

    The Chicken

    The Chicken

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    Ingrid Bergman notices that her roses have been destroyed. At first she suspects it is her dogs or her children, but later on notices a chicken...

    The Chicken
  • 1946
    Desire

    Desire

    Desire

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    Paola, a Milan call girl, returns home to her village in the Abruzzi mountains in an attempt to go straight. Rejected by her father, blackmailed by a...

    Desire
  • 1967
    Idea di un'isola

    Idea di un'isola

    Idea di un'isola

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    A documentary about Sicily and its peculiar customs, with an emphasis on religious rites and the clash of modernity versus traditional values.

    Idea di un'isola
  • 1939
    La vispa Teresa

    La vispa Teresa

    La vispa Teresa

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    La vispa Teresa (“Lively Theresa”) is based on a well known song; a girl, ten, catches a butterfly and all the other insects intervene to...

    La vispa Teresa
  • 1974
    Year One

    Year One

    Year One

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    Rossellini’s biopic of the postwar Christian Democrat leader, Alcide De Gaspari, who was responsible for keeping the Communists out of power in...

    Year One
  • 1997
    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

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    Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.

    Birth of a Nation
  • 1952
    L’invidia

    L’invidia

    L’invidia

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    Starring Andrée Debar and Orféo Tamburi and based on Colette’s La chatte, this visually compelling short forms the fourth part of...

    L’invidia
  • 1951
    Santa Brigida

    Santa Brigida

    Santa Brigida

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    Approximately ten minutes of 35mm footage survives at the Svenska Filmminstitutet from a documentary (probably not completed or even edited) shot in...

    Santa Brigida
  • 1940
    Undersea Fantasy

    Undersea Fantasy

    Undersea Fantasy

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    The tale of two fish in love, threatened by an octopus and saved by an eel.

    Undersea Fantasy