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AGOSTINO D'IPPONIA/ AUGUSTINE
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A made-for-television biography of Augustine, the Bishop of Hippo, from the legendary Roberto Rossellini. Dary Berkani stars as the religious icon, who struggled to maintain the church in the last days of the Roman Empire. In Italian with NO English subtitles. Roberto Rossellini---Italy---1972---120 mins.
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ALCIDE DE GASPERI- ANNO UNO
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Twelve years after abandoning cinema for television work, Italian director Roberto Rossellini returned to film in 1974 with this biopic on Alcide De Gaspari (Luigi Vannucchi), the post-WWII Italian Christian Democrat leader responsible for keeping the Communists out of power in the years following the fall of fascism. Pulling the majority of dialogue directly from public record, Rossellini traces Gaspari's life from the moment of Italy's liberation in 1945 to his death in 1954. In Italian with English subtitles. Roberto Rossellini---Italy---1974---118 mins.
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CARTESIO
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The life of the philosopher Descartes is the subject of one of Roberto Rossellini's final films. In Italian only. NO ENGLISH SUBTITLES. Roberto Rossellini---Italy---1973---154 mins.
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CARTESIO/ DESCARTES
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One of the great Italian director Roberto Rossellini's acclaimed television works on historical figures, this focuses on mathematician and philosopher Rene Descartes. In Italian with English subtitles. Roberto Rossellini---Italy---1973---154 mins.
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FLOWERS OF ST. FRANCIS, THE
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Rossellini continues his investigation of the nature of history and myth in this re-telling of the story of St. Francis of Assisi and his band of friars.
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GENERALE DELLA ROVERE, IL
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Rossellini's great character study stars Vittorio De Sica as a petty con man in wartime Genoa who is forced by the Nazis to impersonate a Resistance leader.
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INDIA (ROSSELLINI)
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Unlike most of his neorealist contemporaries, Roberto Rossellini's concerns were not just political, but global and spiritual. Invited by the prime minister to come film in India in 1957, Rossellini made this influential semi-documentary and a more scattered ten-part television series. The feature, India, Matri Buhmi, is filled with gorgeous color photography and long takes of life in India--its people, customs, wildlife, natural terrain, and modernization. If that's not spicy enough for you, here's some arthouse gossip: Rossellini's writing partner on this project, Sonali DasGupta, became a romantic partner as well, leading to an unsightly divorce from Ingrid Bergman, and his fourth marriage to DasGupta.
Roberto Rossellini---France/Italy---1958---90 mins.
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NAVE BIANCA (ROSSELLINI)
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Sponsored by the audiovisual propaganda center of the Italian Navy Department, La Nave Bianca is the first work in Rossellini's so-called Fascist Trilogy, together with Un pilota ritorna (1942) and Uoma dall Croce (1943). It combines a documentary look at the Italian Navy during World War II with newsreel combat footage and a scripted love story performed by non-professional actors. A Fascist sailor, wounded in battle, is transferred to a hospital ship. While recuperating, he falls in love with th e young Red Cross nurse who cares for him, not know that she is also his longtime pen pal. In Italian with NO English subtitles. Roberto Rossellini---Italy---1941---70 mins.
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ROBERTO ROSSELLINI (2DISCS)
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Two rare films from the pioneer of Italian neorealism, Roberto Rossellini. Dov'e la Liberta...? (Where Is Freedom?, Italy, 1952, 93 mins.), is especially rare in that it was not only hard to see (until now), but it stands out like a sore thumb amongst Rossellini's more modernist works of the period. Toto stars in this comedy about a jailed barber who, after 20 years of dreaming about freedom, is reintroduced to a harsh society he cannot comprehend. In Era Notte a Roma (Escape by Night, Italy/France, 1960, 134 mins.), three soldiers--an American, Englishman and Russian--escape from a concentration camp during the final months of Rome's occupation and are given refuge in a young woman's loft. A defrocked priest, Tarcisio, suspects the girl's complicity with Allied soldiers, but is willing to go along with it in return for favors. The woman resists, and Tarcisio causes the scattering of the group. In his book on Rossellini, Guarner wrote that from the point of Era Notte a Roma onward, Rossellini no longer merely observed, but began to analyze: "Temporal and spatial leaps occur with utter simplicity and br idge ancient and modern cultures." In Italian, English, Russian, and German with Roberto Rossellini---Italy/France---1952/1960---227 mins.
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ROBERTO ROSSELLINI'S WAR TRILOGY
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If you're talking about the birth of postwar European art cinema, it all starts with Rossellini's neorealist war dramas: Rome Open City, Paisan and Germany Year Zero.
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ROSSELLINI'S HISTORY FILMS
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"In 1963, Rossellini announced that he had abandoned cinema and would start working in television. He directed nine telefilms on historical subjects and six short documentaries, claiming TV could be used as an educational device" (Hugo Salas, Senses of Cinema). Here are three of Roberto Rossellini's boldest attempts at deconstructing cultural history. Blaise Pascal (Italy/France, 1972, 129 mins.) is a finely detailed portrait of 17th-century French religious philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal, as well as a speculation on the nature of knowledge, cultural development, substance, space and time. With a script based on 15th-century Florentine texts, The Age of the Medici (Italy, 1973, 255 mins.) furthers Rossellini's exploration of the artistic, social, economic and political forces that extend into our modern world. The three-part Medici project consists of The Exile of Cosimo, The Power of Cosimo, and Leon Battista Alberti. Finally, Cartesius (Descartes, Italy/France, 1974, 162 mins.) attends to mathematician, scientist, and writer Rene Descartes (1596-1650), the "father of modern philosophy." In French and Italian with optional English subtitles. Roberto Rossellini---Italy/France---1972-1974---546 mins.
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SOCRATE (REGION 2)
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An extraordinarily-rarely seen late film by Rossellini which is his historical treatment of the Greek philosopher Socrates opens in 404 BC after the conquest of Athens by Sparta. The philosopher becomes increasingly unpopular as his former student Critias makes repressive use of his power. The tyrant is overthrown but Socrates is still perceived as a societal threat and must eventually stand trial as a subversive. With Jean Sylvere and Anne Caprile. Italian with English subtitles. Roberto Rossellini---Italy---1970---120 mins.
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TAKING OF POWER BY LOUIS XIV, THE
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Italian master Roberto Rossellini chronicles the life of the "Sun King" in this historical drama, shot in a gritty, neorealist style.
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TWO WOMEN / PAISAN
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Two classics of Italian cinema. Two Women (Vittorio de Sica, 1961, 99 mins.) stars Sophia Loren in an Academy Award-winning role as a mother ravaged by war as she and her 13-year old daughter become the focus of attack by retreating German soldiers. A heartwrenching film. Paisan (Roberto Rossellini, 1946, 115 mins.) is one of the landmarks of Italian neo-realism: six episodes of the Battle of Italy from 1943-45. Improvised dialog, non-actors, and the story of the people in the War, the film became a cornerstone of postwar Italian cinema. Both films dubbed in English. Vittorio De Sica/Roberto Rossellini---Italy---1961/1946---214 mins.
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VIVA L'ITALIA!
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Late in his career, Roberto Rossellini turned his attention to a series of historical biopics about dreamers who made their big ideas a reality. This film examines the larger-than-life figure of Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807-1882), one of the prime architects of the Italian unification movement known as the Risorgimento. Leading the rebellion for the unification of the peninsula, Garibaldi fought bravely and is remembered as "The Sword" of Italian unification. Renzo Ricci plays the hero, with Paolo Stoppa, Remo de Angelis, and Franco Interlenghi in supporting roles. In Italian with FRENCH subtitles. Roberto Rossellini---Italy---1960---138 mins.
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