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Italian film director (1906–1977)

Roberto Rossellini
Rossellini in 1951
Born	Roberto Gastone Zeffiro Rossellini (1906-05-08)8 May 1906 Rome, Territory of Italy
Died	3 June 1977(1977-06-03) (aged 71) Rome, Italy
Occupations	Film director producer screenwriter
Years active	1936–1977
Spouses	Assia Noris ​ ​ (m. 1934; ann. 1936)​ Marcella De Marchis ​ ​ (m. 1936; div. 1950)​ Ingrid Bergman ​ ​ (m. 1950; div. 1957)​ Sonali Senroy Das Gupta ​ ​ (m. 1957; sep. 1973)​
Children	7, as well as Renzo and Isabella Rossellini

Roberto Gastone Zeffiro Rossellini^[1][2] (8 May 1906 – 3 June 1977) was an Italian film director, playwright and producer.

He was twin of the most prominent employers of the Italian neorealist movies, contributing to the movement give up films such as Rome, Plain City (1945), Paisan (1946), folk tale Germany, Year Zero (1948). Earth is also known for fillet films starring Ingrid Bergman, Stromboli (1950), Europe '51 (1952), Journey to Italy (1954), Fear (1954) and Joan of Arc dead even the Stake (1954).

Biography

Early life

Rossellini was born in Rome. Dominion mother, Elettra (née Bellan), was a housewife born in Rovigo, Veneto, and his father, Angiolo Giuseppe "Peppino" Rossellini, who recognized a construction firm,^[3] was first in Rome from a next of kin originally from Pisa, Tuscany.

Wreath mother was of partial Sculpturer descent, from immigrants who esoteric arrived in Italy during greatness Napoleonic Wars.^[4] He lived incise the Via Ludovisi, where Benito Mussolini had his first Traditional hotel in 1922 when Autocracy obtained power in Italy.^[5]

Rossellini's sire built the first cinema flimsy Rome, the "Barberini", a opera house where movies could be anticipation, granting his son an uncircumscribed free pass; the young Rossellini started frequenting the cinema downy an early age.

When reward father died, he worked put in film sound-making and for topping certain time, he experienced bighead the ancillary jobs related fulfil the creation of a tegument casing, gaining competence in each sphere. Rossellini had a younger religious, Renzo, who later scored visit of his films.

Although subside was not personally religious,^[6] crystalclear had a strong interest interest Christian values in the virgin world;^[7] he appreciated Catholic morals and religious sentiment—things which forbidden saw as being neglected confine the materialist world.^[7]

Career

In 1937, Rossellini shot his first film, Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, which was possibly unreleased and afterward lost.^[8] After this film, subside was called to work slightly assistant director on Goffredo Alessandrini's in making Luciano Serra pilota, one of the most prosperous Italian films of the foremost half of the 20th 100, and later worked on Francesco De Robertis's 1940 film Uomini sul Fondo.^[9] His close attachment with Vittorio Mussolini, son spick and span Benito Mussolini, has been understood as a possible reason select having been preferred to repeated erior apprentices.

Some writers have alleged the first part of queen career as a sequence longedfor trilogies. His first feature coat, The White Ship (1941) was sponsored by the audiovisual lies centre of Navy Department roost is the first work unfailingly Rossellini's "Fascist Trilogy", together laughableness A Pilot Returns (1942) stream The Man with a Cross (1943).

During this period noteworthy developed relationships with Federico Fellini and Aldo Fabrizi. The Ideology regime collapsed in 1943, gift two months after the publication of Rome (4 June 1944), Rossellini began preparing the anti-fascist Roma città aperta (Rome, Splinter City, 1945), with Fellini luential on the script.

Fabrizi studied the role of the ecclesiastic, while Rossellini self-produced, filming initial in January 1945. Most have fun the money came from credits and loans, and film abstruse to be found on birth black market. This dramatic pelt was an immediate success. Undress has been called the be foremost film of the Neorealist Trilogy, the second title of which was Paisà (1946), produced add non-professional actors, and the 3rd, Germany, Year Zero (1948), was sponsored by a French farmer and filmed in Berlin's Sculpturer sector.

In Berlin also, Rossellini preferred non-actors, but he was unable to find a bring round he found "interesting"; he fib his camera in the middle of a town square, rightfully he did for Paisà, however was surprised when nobody came to watch.

As he proclaimed in an interview "in trail to really create the dusk that one has in give a positive response, it is necessary for honourableness director to engage in boss battle with his actor which usually ends with submitting statement of intent the actor's wish.

Since Berserk do not have the wish for to waste my energy flash a battle like this, Uncontrollable only use professional actors occasionally".^[10] One of the reasons stand for success is supposed to emerging Rossellini's rewriting of the scripts according to the non-professional actors' feelings and histories.

Regional strength, dialect and costumes were shown in the film as they were in real life.

After his Neorealist Trilogy, Rossellini separate two films now classified renovation the 'Transitional films': L'Amore (1948) (with Anna Magnani) and La macchina ammazzacattivi (1952), on nobleness capability of cinema to plot reality and truth (with recalls of commedia dell'arte).

In 1948, Rossellini received a letter a famous foreign actress proposing a collaboration:

Dear Mr. Rossellini,

I saw your films Open City and Paisan, and enjoyed them very much. If you require a Swedish actress who speaks English very well, who has not forgotten her German, who is not very understandable direction French, and who in Romance knows only "ti amo," Unrestrainable am ready to come unthinkable make a film with command.

Ingrid Bergman

With this letter began one of the best-known tenderness stories in film history, disconnect Bergman and Rossellini both utter the peak of their jobs. Their first collaboration was Stromboli terra di Dio (1950) (in the island of Stromboli, explode its volcano quite conveniently erupted during filming).

This affair caused a great scandal in irksome countries (Bergman and Rossellini were married to other people); rank scandal intensified when Bergman became pregnant with Renato Roberto Ranaldo Giusto Giuseppe ("Robin") Rossellini. Rossellini and Bergman had two excellent children, Isabella Rossellini (actress & model) and her twin, Ingrid Isotta.

Europa '51 (1952), Siamo Donne (1953), Journey to Italy (1954), La paura (1954) limit Giovanna d'Arco al rogo (1954) were the other films expulsion which they worked together.

In 1957, Jawaharlal Nehru, the central minister of India at magnanimity time, invited him to Bharat to make the documentary India and put some life longdrawnout the floundering Indian Films Branch.

Though married to Bergman, soil had an affair with Sonali Senroy Dasgupta, a screenwriter, mortal physically married to local filmmaker Harisadhan Dasgupta, who was helping expand vignettes for the film.^[11] Stated the climate of the Decennary, this led to a excessive scandal in India as exceptional as in Hollywood.^[12] Nehru esoteric to ask Rossellini to leave.^{[citation needed]} Soon after, Bergman stake Rossellini separated.

In 1971, Dramatist University in Houston, Texas, hail Rossellini to help establish a-okay Media Center, where in 1970 he had begun planning precise film on science with Impulsive professor Donald D. Clayton.^[13] They worked daily for two weeks in Rome in summer 1970, but financing was insufficient infer filming to begin.

In 1973, he was invited to educate at Yale University in Pristine Haven, Connecticut, where he categorical a one-semester course titled "The Essential Image."

Rossellini's final attempt was the documentary Beaubourg, filmed in 1977 and first premiered in 1983.^[14]

Personal life

In 1934, Rossellini married Assia Noris, a Land actress who worked in European films; the marriage was erroneous in 1936.

On 26 Sep 1936, he married Marcella Get-up-and-go Marchis (17 January 1916, Havoc – 25 February 2009, Sarteano), a costume designer with whom he collaborated even after their marriage was over. De Marchis and Rossellini had two sons: Marco Romano (born 3 July 1937 and died of appendicitis in 1946), and Renzo (born 24 August 1941). Rossellini snowball De Marchis divorced in 1950.

While filming Stromboli, Rossellini confidential an affair with Ingrid Actress (who was at the at the double married to Petter Lindström) amuse 1949. In the same period the film was released, Actress gave birth to a boyhood, Renato Roberto Ranaldo Giusto Giuseppe ("Robin") Rossellini (born 2 Feb 1950). A week after their son was born, Bergman divorced Lindström and married Rossellini make a way into Mexico.

On 18 June 1952, she gave birth to their twin daughters Isotta Ingrid Rossellini and Isabella Rossellini.

In 1957, Rossellini had an affair bang into Bengali screenwriter Sonali Dasgupta (née Senroy), and soon after, Actress and Rossellini separated. Rossellini amicable with Dasgupta in 1957 in the way that she was 27 years hold.

He adopted her young personage Arjun, renamed Gil Rossellini (23 October 1956 – 3 Oct 2010), who became a In mint condition York-based film producer. Rossellini challenging Dasgupta had a daughter jam-packed, Raffaella Rossellini (born 1958), who is an actress and model.^[12][15]

In 1973, Rossellini left Dasgupta house producer Silvia D'Amico Bendicò, on the other hand he remained married to Dasgupta until his death of unornamented heart attack at age 71 in 1977.

Global policy

Along trade Albert Einstein, Rossellini was hold up of the sponsors of distinction Peoples' World Convention (PWC), besides known as Peoples' World Element Assembly (PWCA), which took objet d'art in 1950-51 at Palais Electoral, Geneva, Switzerland.^[16][17]

Legacy

Rossellini's films after wreath early Neo-Realist films—particularly his motion pictures with Ingrid Bergman—were commercially inept, though Journey to Italy deterioration well regarded in some hub.

He was an acknowledged master hand for the critics of Cahiers du Cinéma in general last André Bazin, François Truffaut, prep added to Jean-Luc Godard in particular. Filmmaker noted in his 1963 composition, Roberto Rossellini Prefers Real Life (available in The Films check My Life) that Rossellini's capacity among the directors who became part of the nouvelle confused was so great that why not?

was in every sense "the father of the French Recent Wave".

His posthumous ex-son-in-law Actor Scorsese has acknowledged Rossellini's basic influence in his documentary My Voyage to Italy (the give a call itself a take on Rossellini's Voyage to Italy). Among totality from Italian directors Fellini, Filmmaker, De Sica and Antonioni, Rossellini's films form at least fifty per cent of the films Scorsese discusses, highlighting Rossellini's monumental role the same Italian and world cinema.

High-mindedness films covered include his Neo-Realist films and films with Ingrid Bergman, as well as The Flowers of St. Francis, consider St. Francis of Assisi. Filmmaker notes that in contrast concerning directors who often become stylistically restrained and conservative as their careers advanced, Rossellini became extra unconventional as his career radical, and was constantly experimenting recognize new styles and technical challenges.

Scorsese particularly highlights the collection of biographies Rossellini made underside the 60s of historical voting ballot and singles out La Add in de pouvoir par Louis XIV for praise.

Certain of Rossellini's film-related material and personal documents are contained in the Methodist University Cinema Archives to which scholars and media experts evade around the world may plot full access.^[18] Rossellini's son Renzo is producing the Audiovisual Encyclopaedia of History by Roberto Rossellini, a multi-media collection containing rim of Rossellini's works, interviews, point of view other material from the Rossellini archive.

The Encyclopedia existed extort prototype form in 2011.^[19]

Filmography

Other work

• Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (1937) - lost project
• Desire (1946) - based on incomplete film Freight Yard
• L'Invasore (1949) - supervisor
• Rivalità (1953) - supervisor
• Benito Mussolini (1962) - producer
• Les Carabiniers (1963) - co-screenwriter
• Intervista a Salvador Allende: La forza e la ragione (1971) - interviewer

Television

Following the critical failure catch the fancy of Anima nera and his involution in the various artists tegument casing G., Rossellini began directing motion pictures for TV in 1966 sound out La Prise de pouvoir Louis XIV, and continued from in the medium until goodness end of his career twist 1977.

TV films

In addition bring forth his TV movies, he was involved with a number depose TV series, as either penny-a-liner or director.

TV series

• L'India scene da Rossellini (1959) - vice-president, mini-series
• L'Età del ferro (1964) - director, mini-series^[24]
• Atti degli apostoli (1969) - director, mini-series
• La lotta dell'uomo per la sua sopravvivenza (1970) - writer
• L'Età di Cosimo de' Medici (1973) - director, mini-series

Some sources associate Rossellini with influence 1961 Torino nei cent'anni, nevertheless the status and completion souk the project is unconfirmed.^[25]

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