Tag Archives: Roberto Rossellini

1661: Cardinal Mazarin dies. In the power vacuum, the young Louis asserts his intention to govern as well as rule.

The film takes place mostly in a surrealistic fantasy around the time of the execution of Joan of Arc. Joan of Arc, played by Ingrid Bergman, is being burned alive for heresy.

Irene Wagner, the wife of prominent scientist Albert Wagner, finds herself blackmailed about her affair by her lover’s jealous ex-girlfriend.

An exploration of the Centre Georges Pompidou and its surroundings on its opening day in 1977.

La Nave Bianca is a movie about a group of firemen on a Italian battleship, that takes part in a sea battle.

A young Italian pilot is interned in a British prison camp after his plane is shot down during the war against Greece.

Paola, a Milan call girl, returns home to her village in an attempt to go straight.

A man with a past gets married and it seems that he will be able to start a new life, but an unexpected inheritance gets in the way and deteriorates the relationship with his wife.

An extremely rare film by Roberto Rossellini, his third feature, made under the Fascist control of Italy.

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 to a shanty town. A G.I. meets a woman the day Rome is liberated; in six months they meet again: he’s cynical, she’s a prostitute. A US nurse braves the trip across the Arno into German fire in search of a partisan she loves. Three chaplains, including a Jew, call on a monastery north in the Apennines. Allied soldiers and partisans try to escape capture in the marshes of the Po.