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A woman's face guardian.co.uk, UK - Sep 05,2008 ... Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca (1942) (and later, less glamorous but still beautiful, in Roberto Rossellini's films) and Rita Hayworth in Gilda (1946). ...

See Naples and die. Literally guardian.co.uk, UK - Aug 25, 2008 ... has a distinguished precedent in what is perhaps the greatest of films on the subject, Roberto Rossellini's 1953 Journey to Italy (Viaggio in Italia). ...

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Love child okay in Hollywood, but not in politics Tampabay.com, FL - Aug 30, 2008 In 1949, Ingrid Bergman went to Italy to work on a film, fell in love with the director, Roberto Rossellini, and had his child while still married to ...

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Open City

Aldo Fabrizi, Anna Magnani, Marcello Pagliero, Vito Annichiarico, Nando Bruno
I have to agree with a couple of the reviewers here that this film is rather dated, but I can think of few movies from the late forties, even the great ones, that the same thing can't be said about. Open City captivates the viewer almost immediately as it is a moving story. With our first glimpse of Manfredi on the balcony we get a pretty good idea about what the plot will concern. I found it to be legitimately suspenseful and a classic in every sense of the word. One must remember that artists like Rossellini were the building blocks with which our contemporary cinema was erected.

The Flowers of St Francis - Criterion Collection

Pino Locchi, Gianfranco Bellini, Arabella Lemaitre, Roberto Sorrentino, Aldo Fabrizi
Rossellini is an extraordinary director (for a good introduction to his work see M. Scorsese's, My Voyage to Italy) His treatment of St.Francis is unlike any other screen version I have seen, and in my view, irreplaceable.It is based on "I Fioretti" very early collection of stories that grew up among the first followers and is really more about the effect Francis had on them than it is a "biography" of the saint. It that way it is more like a "gospel," an excited, almost unbelievable, account of how he changed people's lives.

Roma, Città Aperta (Open City) (Import - All Region)

The experience of defeat and occupation with the daily humiliations, was happily not one that the Americans or British had to undergo... But for those countries which did suffer under the frame of foreign oppression--France, Italy, Czechoslovakia and Poland--the experience left a heritage of bitterness deeply evident in their films...

Italy, however, was a special and unusual case: it was occupied by two opposing armies--the German and the American-- at the same time... And as neither side trusted the Italians they were left to get on with their own internal political quarrels of partisans versus fascist, within the limits, of course, of occupation.

Germany Year Zero

Edmund Moeschke, Ernst Pittschau, Ingetraud Hinze, Franz-Otto Krüger, Erich Gühne
Masterful work of Italian neo-realism by the grand old man, Roberto Rossellini and filmed in war-torn Berlin and widely regarded as the precursor to Rossellini's 50's masterpieces.

A young boy is manipulated by his teacher who later turns out to be an appalling Nazi sympathizer who manipulates the boy into murdering his father.

Mesmerizing and always stylized and breathtaking form. This film conveys the horror and destructive inevitability of war far better than the gross Hollywood extravaganza's of the Longest Day variety.

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