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Roberto Rossellini

Roberto Rossellini
Birth 8 May 1906
Rome , Flag of Italy (1861-1946). Svg Italy
Nationality Italian
Deaths 3 June 1977
Rome , Flag: Italy Italy
Occupation (s) Director
Notable Films Rome, Open City ,
Paisan ,
Germany, Year Zero ,
Stromboli ,
Travel in Italy

Roberto Rossellini is a film Italian for film and television , born on 8 May 1906 in Rome , where he died on 3 June 1977. Rossellini was one of the largest producers of Italian neorealist cinema , a movement which was largely built around him and his film Rome, Open City (Roma, citt aperta) in 1945 , or Paisa (PAIS) in 1946.

Summary

/ / Biography

Born into a bourgeois family living in Rome, Roberto Rossellini lived in the paternal home, via Ludovisi, in an atmosphere of art, music and culture.

The father of Roberto Rossellini Angiolo Giuseppe says Beppino Rossellini, was a famous architect of the capital, enjoying the wealth and support of an uncle entrepreneur Roberto Rossellini Zeffiro. Beppino Rossellini built the first Roman theater (a theater in which films could be shown), allowing Roberto freely to attend numerous meetings. Roberto started frequenting the cinema at a very young age. The death of his father, he began working as a soundman for movies, and, for some time, has all the accessory jobs related to the creation of a film, gaining competence in each area.

In 1936 , he married Marcella de Marchis who exercised, from the years 1960 , activity costume movie and with whom he had two son, Marco Romano, born in 1937 and Renzo , born in 1941 who became assistant director and then director, and often worked with his father.

Rossellini's earlier works were of short films : in 1936 , Daphne (Daphne) and then in 1938 , Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, which was banned by the censors for fornication, and in 1939 , Fantasia Sottomarina ( aquatic fantasy). In 1938 , he assist Goffredo Alessandrini scenario for Luciano Serra, Pilot (Luciano Serra pilota) who won the Mussolini Cup for best Italian film Filmography

Film Director

Television Director

  • 1959 : The India vista da Rossellini documentary
  • 1961 : Turin and the first centenary of the unification of Italy (Torino ha cent'anni)
  • 1962 : I Carabinieri
  • 1962 : Benito Mussolini
  • 1964 : The Iron Age (L'Et del Ferro)
  • 1967 : Idea for an island (Idea di un'isola)
  • 1967 : The Taking of Power by Louis XIV (for the ORTF , also used in theaters)
  • 1968 : Acts of the Apostles (Atti degli Apostoli)
  • 1970 : Socrates
  • 1970 : The struggle for human survival (La lotta dell'uomo per la sua sopravvenza)
  • 1971 : The Power and the reason (Intervista a Salvador Allende: La forza e la ragione)
  • 1971 : Rice University
  • 1971 : Blaise Pascal with Pierre Arditi
  • 1972 : Augustine of Hippo (Agostino ippon)
  • 1973 : The Age of Cosimo de Medici (eta di Cosimo de Medici)
  • 1973 : Rene Descartes (Cartesius)
  • 1974 : The World Population (A Question of People), directed by Beppe Cino makes "From filming by Roberto Rossellini"
  • 1974 : Concert for Michelangelo (Michelangelo Concerto per)
  • 1977 : Beaubourg, Centre for Art and Culture

Writer

Awards

Quote (s)

  • In Naples, the word "work" does not exist. It says "fatigare.

Trivia

  • In 1956 , Rossellini will have as assistant director Francois Truffaut, who was then 24 years.
  • An international competition with a prize Roberto Rossellini is held annually at Maiori ( Campania , 50 km south of Naples ) and is intended exclusively for young film students, nationality indifferent, having attended for a period of at least two years, a recognized film school, a university degree course or vocational training option with the show.

Bibliography

Texts Rossellini
  • Roberto Rossellini, a free spirit - must learn nothing as a slave, Fayard, Paris, 1977
  • Roberto Rossellini, Fragments of an autobiography, Ramsay, Paris, 1987
  • Roberto Rossellini, revealed Cinema, edited and introduced by Alain Bergala, Cahiers du Cinema, Paris, 1984 (reprint 2006)
  • Roberto Rossellini, Adriano Apra, Television as utopia, Cahiers du Cinema, Paris, 2001
Essays and biographies
  • Mario Verdone, Roberto Rossellini, Editions Seghers, Paris, 1963
  • Rene Prdal, Roberto Rossellini, Anthology film, L'Avant-scene, Paris, 1978
  • Serceau Michel, Roberto Rossellini, preface by Enrico Fulchignoni, Editions du Cerf, Paris, 1986
  • Edited by Alain Jean Narboni Bergala and Roberto Rossellini, Cahiers du Cinema - The French Cinematheque, Paris, 1990
  • Nathalie Bourgeois, Bernard Bnoliel Alain Bergala et alia, India, Rossellini and animals, French Cinematheque, Paris, 1997
  • Enrique Seknadje-Ashkenaz, Roberto Rossellini and the Second World War, L'Harmattan, Paris, 2000
  • Tag Gallagher, The Adventures of Roberto Rossellini, Leo Scheer, Paris, 2006
  • Helen Frappat , Roberto Rossellini, Cahiers du Cinema - Le Monde, Paris, 2007

Notes

  1. Cup Mussolini, fascist-inspired, attributed the 1934 to 1942 was replaced by the Golden Lion of St. Mark's from 1947

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