Roberto Rossellini

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Films

Germany Year Zero

Door Roberto Rossellini

1947 | 78 min | Klassiekers

Klassiekers | 78 min | 1947

A young German boy faces the problems of a tough life in immediate post WWII Berlin. Edmund, a young boy who lives in war-devastated Germany after the Second World War has to do all kinds of work and tricks to help his family in getting food and barely survive. One day he meets a man who used to be one of his teachers in school and hopes to get support from him, but the ideas of this man do not lead Edmund in a clearer or safer way of living...

Rome, Open City

Door Roberto Rossellini

1945 | 98 min | Klassiekers

Klassiekers | 98 min | 1945

Life stories cross, while Rome is occupied by the Nazis. Pina loves Francesco, a clandestine printer. Manfredi is the leader of the Roman resistance movement. Father Pietro, a parish priest, helps the resistance by transmitting messages and money. The Gestapo commander captures both of them, and interrogates Giorgio violently. They attempt to use Pietro’s religious beliefs to convince hi to betray his cause, citing that he allies himself with atheists. Pietro responds that anyone who strives to ...

Voyage en Italie

Door Roberto Rossellini

1953 | 88 min | Klassiekers

Klassiekers | 88 min | 1953

The Joyces are an English couple who have gone to Italy to sell a recently inherited property near Naples. The coldness of their relationship is enhanced by the trip, with her reminiscing about a poet who loved her and died in the war, and him idling on Capri, flirting with a woman and retreating from adultery at the last moment. This deceptively simple tale of a bored couple becomes a passionate story of cruelty and cynicism in the hands of Rossellini, as the marriage disintegrates.

La Force et la raison : entretien avec Salvador Allende

Door Roberto Rossellini

1971 | 36 min | Documentaire

Documentaire | 36 min | 1971

An interview by Rossellini with Salvador Allende, aired in September 1973 on the national network RAI, right after the assassination of the Chilean President. Roberto Rossellini interviewe le président chilien Salvador Allende, s'intéresse à sa conception du marxisme depuis une position démocratique, aux problèmes de développement du continent ibérico-américain et aux relations qu’entretient son gouvernement avec les Etats-Unis.

L'Amore

Door Roberto Rossellini

1947 | 77 min | Klassiekers

Klassiekers | 77 min | 1947

"Amore" includes two medium-length films by Rossellini. "The human voice", after Jean Cocteau, shows a woman by her phone waiting for her lover, who has just left her, to call back. "The miracle" features a naive peasant believing she is meeting St. Joseph in the mountains, who is actually only a lying vagabond. She will become pregnant...

Machine to Kill Bad People

Door Roberto Rossellini

1952 | 83 min | Klassiekers

Klassiekers | 83 min | 1952

Photographer Celestino Esposito discovers that his camera has a special power: a simple click can make evil men disappear. After a wondrous revelation from his protective Saint, photographer Celestino Esposito discovers that his camera has a special power: a simple click can make evil men disappear. He then finds out that the revelation did not come from a Saint but from the devil himself.

India: Matri Bhumi

Door Roberto Rossellini

1959 | 90 min | Klassiekers

Klassiekers | 90 min | 1959

Roberto Rossellini flies to India in 1957 and shoots a poetic movie between dream and reality, captivating the mysteries of Indian society. A journey to India, from the metropolitan chaos of Benares to the small villages scattered around the inland. The film intertwines documentary sequences and short fiction tales depicting several male characters in different stages of their lives: an elephant guide getting married, a technician who has worked on the construction of the Irakud dam for seven years, ...

Paisà

Door Roberto Rossellini

1946 | 124 min | Klassiekers

Klassiekers | 124 min | 1946

In six short episodes, Rossellini characterises the liberation of Italy after WW2 in one of the great masterpieces of Italian Neorealism. Paisan is the second film of the ‘Neorealist Trilogy’. It is divided into six episodes set in the Italian Campaign during World War II. First episode: A Sicilian girl befriends an American soldier. When the two are killed, the US soldier believes he has betrayed. Second episode: A Napolitan rascal steals the boots from an Afro-american soldier. But when the soldier ...

Stromboli

Door Roberto Rossellini

1949 | 105 min | Klassiekers

Klassiekers | 105 min | 1949

Karen, a woman from the Baltics, marries fisherman Antonio to escape from a prisoners camp. But life in his village, Stromboli, is threatened by the volcano...

Fear

Door Roberto Rossellini

1954 | 83 min | Klassiekers

Klassiekers | 83 min | 1954

Une femme mariée à un industriel rompt avec son amant, mais une ancienne maîtresse de celui-ci la menace de tout dévoiler et commence à la faire chanter. Irene Wagner, the wife of the prominent Germn scientist Professor Albert Wagner, had been having an affair with Erich Baumann. She does not disclose this to her husband, hoping to preserve his innocence and their ‘perfect marriage’. Regis fills her with anxiety and guilt. However, Johanna Schultze, Erichs jealous ex-girlfriend, learns about the ...