biography
| name: |
Rossellini, Roberto
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pronunciation:
[roseleenee]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1906–77)
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| biography:
| Film director, born in Rome, Italy. His first independent film was Roma, città apperta (1945, Rome, Open City), made while it was still under German occupation, often with hidden cameras in a style which came to be known as ‘neo-Realism’. It was followed by Paisà (1946, Paisan) and Germania, anno zero (1947, Germany, Year Zero). Later films on spiritual themes, and his liaison with Ingrid Bergman, were condemned by the Catholic Church in the USA, but another war-time story, Il generale della Rovere (1959, General della Rovere), restored his popularity. He later produced several television documentaries on historical figures, such as Louis XIV and Socrates. |
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