Movies: Roberto Rossellini

A film by Renzo and Roberto Rossellini....

A film about Alfonso, who was the protagonist of the third episode of Paisà (the street urchin who steals the American soldier's shoes). A reflection on neorealism, filmed with Michele Schiavino and Maria Paola Fadda, third special Sony video prize a...

Rossellini explores the frescoes in the Sistine Chapel during a concert by the chorus of the Cappella Musicale Pontificia conducted by Monsignor Domenico Bartolucci....

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 save it....

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

Italy, March 1980. César travels to the ruins of Pompeii with the extravagant intention of recording psychophonies, supernatural echoes of the great eruption of Mount Vesuvius that destroyed the city in the 1st century, but he does not succeed. Howev...

Documentary about the life and works of Italian filmmaker Roberto Rossellini....

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

Approximately ten minutes of 35mm footage survives at the Svenska Filmminstitutet from a documentary (probably not completed or even edited) shot in the convent of the Swedish sisters of Saint Brigid, Rome, at the request of the Swedish Red Cross, fo...

Roberto Rossellini shot the film Psycodrame in 1956 for the Center d'études de radiotélévision. The staging of three "psychodramas" - organized by Professor Jacob Levi Moreno with Anne Ancelin Schutzemberger - gives Rossellini the opportunity to refl...

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

An hour with Roberto Rossellini. Interviewed by Gregoretti, the director of Paisà and Europa 51 retraces his life, his work, his relationship with the young critics of the Cahiers du Cinéma who would become the authors of the French New Wave, but als...

A mermaid emerges from the sea, dances with a faun, and leaves behind a veil for the faun's masturbatory fantasies. Possibly unfinished....

According to Ferrara, Rossellini told him it was a satire in which “Perfidious Albion,” a big turkey representing England, goes around pecking at the hens representing the nations of Europe, until defied by a rooster representing Italy. “Rossellini d...

The life of the legendary Italian photojournalist Paolo Di Paolo through his photographs, which capture the essence of a fascinating and turbulent Italy, the one inhabited by Anna Magnani and Pier Paolo Pasolini, a country that no longer exists....

Upstream river Ripasottile a shoal of perch fish have born. The news spreads around all animals who live around the river, until also the trouts hear about it, and swim upriver to go eat the newborn fish. So all animals around the river and from the ...

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

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