Rossellini, Renzo 1908-1982Overview
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Renzo Rossellini
Francesco, giullare di Dio The flowers of St. Francis
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4 editions published between 2003 and 2005 in Italian and held by 501 WorldCat member libraries worldwide "In a series of simple and joyous vignettes, director Roberto Rossellini and co-writer Federico Fellini lovingly convey the universal teachings of The People's Saint: humility, faith, and sacrifice. Gorgeously photographed to evoke the medieval paintings of Saint Francis' time, and cast with monks from the Nocera Inferiore Monastery"--Container
I bambini ci guardano The children are watching us
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4 editions published in 2006 in Italian and Multiple languages and held by 370 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A four-year-old boy is trapped in a loveless family with his suicidal father and his adulteress mother
Il Generale Della Rovere
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4 editions published between 1996 and 2010 in Italian and German and held by 323 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Film of intrigue and heroism within the Italian underground during the German occupation of Italy. Emanuele Bardone, a petty con man, fleeces his victims by posing as a colonel. Persuaded by the Germans to impersonate a partisan leader they have killed, he assumes the admirable qualities of the heroic officer and the German plan backfires
Germania, anno zero
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2 editions published in 2002 in Italian and held by 235 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A young boy kills his sickly father and then, unable to live with his action, kills himself. Set in ruined Berlin shortly after World War II. The third part of the trilogy following, Paisa, and Roma città aperta
Roma, città aperta
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2 editions published in 2009 in Italian and held by 202 WorldCat member libraries worldwide When the Nazis occupied Rome, a brave few fought against it. An underground agent who is cornered by the Germans in a certain quarter of Rome, flees the Germans. In the course of his flight he imperils his resistance friends
Blaise Pascal
by Roberto Rossellini
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5 editions published between 2008 and 2009 in French and Italian and held by 199 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Evoking the terror and desperation of the seventeenth century, this film brings to life Blaise Pascal, the philosopher and mathematician who, amidst religious persecution and ignorance, believed in a harmony between God and science
Cartesius
by Roberto Rossellini
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5 editions published between 2008 and 2009 in Italian and held by 199 WorldCat member libraries worldwide René Descartes was known as the "Father of modern philosophy." Depicts the seventeenth-century thinker's agonized struggle to assert the primacy of reason. An intimate, psychological study of obsession and existential crisis
L'età di Cosimo de' Medici
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2 editions published between 2008 and 2009 in French and Italian and held by 156 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Like a Renaissance painting come to life and gives a portrait of fifteenth-century Florence, ruled by the Medici political dynasty. Focuses on two of the city's leading citizens: banker Cosimo de' Medici and art theorist Leon Battista Alberti
Paisà
by Roberto Rossellini
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14 editions published between 1946 and 2011 in 3 languages and held by 126 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Six stories dealing with Italian and American soldiers meeting under battle conditions during World War II
Germany year zero
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3 editions published between 2009 and 2010 in German and held by 121 WorldCat member libraries worldwide The concluding chapter of Roberto Rossellini's War Trilogy is the most devastating, a portrait of an obliterated Berlin seen through the eyes of a 12-year old boy. Living in a bombed-out apartment building with his sick father and two older siblings, young Edmund is mostly left to wander unsupervised, getting ensnared in the black market schemes of a group of teenagers and coming under the nefarious influence of a Nazi-sympathizing ex-teacher
Paisan Paisà
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2 editions published between 2009 and 2010 in Italian and held by 104 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Set during the liberation of Italy at the end of World War II, and taking place across the country, from Sicily to the northern Po Valley. Looks at the struggles of different cultures to communicate and of people living their everyday lives in extreme circumstances
Deutschland im Jahre Null
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2 editions published in 2009 in German and held by 90 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Edmund, a young boy who lives amid the rubble that is Berlin after World War II, struggles and scrambles to help his family in getting food and barely survive
Rossellini's history films renaissance and enlightenment
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1 edition published in 2008 in Italian and held by 87 WorldCat member libraries worldwide "In the final phase of his career, Italian master Roberto Rossellini embarked on a dramatic, daunting project: a series of television films about knowledge and history, made in an effort to teach, where contemporary media were failing. Looking at the Western world's major figures and moments, yet focusing on the small details of daily life, Rossellini was determined not to recount history but to relive it, as it might have been, unadorned but full of the drama of the everyday. This selection of Rossellini's history films presents "The Age of the Medici," "Cartesius," and "Blaise Pascal"--Works that don't just enliven the past but illuminate the ideas that brought us to where we are today"--Container
Journey to Italy
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1 edition published in 2013 in English and held by 77 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Among the most influential films of the postwar era, Robert Rossellini's Journey to Italy charts the declining marriage of a couple from England on a trip in the countryside near Naples. More than just the anatomy of a relationship, Rossellini's masterpiece is a heartrending work of emotion and spirituality
Europe '51
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1 edition published in 2013 in Italian and held by 73 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Ingrid Bergman plays a wealthy, self-absorbed Rome socialite racked by guilt over the shocking death of her young son. As a way of dealing with her grief and finding meaning in her life, she decides to devote her time and money to the city's poor and sick. Her newfound, single-minded activism leads to conflicts with her husband and questions about her sanity
Stromboli
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1 edition published in 2013 in English and held by 68 WorldCat member libraries worldwide After World War II, a Lithuanian refugee marries a simple Italian fisherman she meets in a prisoner of war camp and accompanies him back to his isolated village on an island off the coast of Sicily. Cut off from the world, she finds herself crumbling emotionally, but she is destined for a dramatic epiphany
Roberto Rossellini
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1 edition published in 2008 in Italian and held by 65 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Era notte a Roma: "In this emotional war drama set in Nazi-occupied Rome, a beautiful bootlegger gives sanctuary to three escaped POWs, an American pilot, a Russian sergeant and a British major. By taking them in, she tragically jeopardizes the safety of her Communist lover while the confinement of the trapped prisoners brings their uneasy alliance to a boiling point, symbolizing the chaos of the world around them."--Container
Roma, cittá aperta Rome ville ouverte
by Roberto Rossellini
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3 editions published between 1945 and 1999 in Italian and French and held by 60 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Extrait du résumé figurant sur la jaquette : Témoignage brut et sans concession de la résistance du peuple romain face à l'occupant allemand, Rome ville ouverte est animé d'un souci d'authenticité rarement atteint par le septième art. S'inspirant de faits réels, tourné à chaud dans un style documentaire débarrassé des oripeaux mélodramatiques traditionnels, le chef-d'œuvre de Rossellini est considéré à juste titre comme le premier film "néo-réaliste", ouvrant la voie à un des courants majeurs du cinéma mondial
3 films by Roberto Rossellini starring Ingrid Bergman
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1 edition published in 2013 in English and held by 59 WorldCat member libraries worldwide This box set features the resulting collaboration produced as a series of films that are works of both sociopolitical concern and metaphysical melodrama. Stromboli, Europe '51, and Journey to Italy are intensely personal portraits that reveal the director at his most emotional and the glamorous actor at her most anguished, and that capture them and the world around them in transition
Viaggio in Italia
by Roberto Rossellini
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1 edition published in 2005 in English and held by 59 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A quiet English couple arrive in Naples on family business. Lacking the protective screen of their normal lives and discomforted by the sensuous locations around them, they are confronted by the shallowness of their relationship more
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