Roberto Rossellini Filmography

Born:: May 8, 1906 in Rome, Italy
Occupation:: Director, Producer, Screenwriter
Biography:: The son of a wealthy Roman architect, writer/director Roberto Rossellini was more technically than artistically inclined when he began making amateur films as a teenager. From his first project in 1934, Rossellini was far more fascinated with the mechanical intricacies of dubbing, editing, and...Read More

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Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema

Synopsis: Survey of the history of Italian cinema, featuring clips from such classics as "Open City," "8-1/2," and "Seven Beauties," and interviews with illustrious stars and filmmakers, including Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Toto, Monica Vitti, Anna Magnani, Vittorio DeSica, Federico Fellini, Pier Paolo Pasolini Read More

9/13/86
Last Space Voyage of Wallace Ramsel

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The fictional story of a man who has been abducted by aliens. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1977
Il Messia

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Carlos de Carvalho, Toni Ucci, Flora Carabella

Synopsis: Virtually unknown outside of Italy, Messiah (Il Messia) is historically important as the last directorial effort of Roberto Rossellini. In retelling the life of Christ, Rosselini harks back to the humanistic style he'd utilized on his many Italian TV projects of the 1960s. The director has no Read More

9/30/76
Anno Uno

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: After several years of television work, Italian director Roberto Rossellini returned to the big screen with 1974's Anno Uno. The film recounts the life and career of postwar Italian Christian Democrat political leader Alcide de Gasperi (here played by Luigi Vannucchi). Gaspari gained considerable Read More

11/15/74
Cartesius

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Originally a two-part mini-series for Italian television, this biopic of the philosopher René Descartes can be seen as the third part of an informal trilogy on 17th century France from director Roberto Rossellini alongside his The Rise of Louis XIV (1966) and Blaise Pascal (1971). The film Read More

1973
The Age of the Medici

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Criticized as an indulgent and pompous directorial farce, this is really just a slight vehicle in which the lives of artists Cosimo de Medici and Leon Alberti are catalogued in an effort to portray the Renaissance art of Italy from the 1400s. The four hours are an excellent showing of the Read More

1973
Agostino di Ippona

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: This late effort from Roberto Rossellini relates in dispassionate fashion the life story of the Bishop of Hippo, a North African region. Augustine, played here by Dary Berkani flourished during the last years of the Roman Empire. The film details Augustine's struggle to maintain religious decorum Read More

1972
Socrates

Crew: Director, Editor, Screenwriter

Synopsis: This is one of several biographical films by the famed Italian neorealist director Roberto Rossellini, one of whose better-known films is Stromboli. The script is based on Platonic dialogues and the few-known historical facts about the philosopher Socrates. Socrates was a key figure in the history Read More

1971
Blaise Pascal

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Blaise Pascal was one of several historical films directed by Robert Rossellini for Italian television in the late 1960s to early 1970s. The film covers the life of 17th century French philosopher Blaise Pascal, from age 17 to his death, at 39, in 1662. Much is made of the agnostic Pascal's Read More

1971
Atti Degli Apostoli

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: This dramatization from the New Testament originated as a 342-minute, five-part television mini-series; it was subsequently released in a shortened, 280-minute version. In part one, the Apostles call the pilgrims of Jerusalem to be baptized, and Peter (Jacques Dumur) and John (Mohamed Kouka) are Read More

1968
La Prise du Pouvoir par Louis XIV

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Jean-Marie Patte, Raymond Jourdan, Silvagni, Katharina Renn, Pierre Barrat

Synopsis: Given the opportunity to turn out a Sacha Guitry-style spectacle, director Roberto Rossellini charts his own neorealist course for The Rise of Louis XIV. It's as if a documentary cameraman was let loose in the royal court of the 17th Century Sun King, here played by Jean-Marie Patte. The use of Read More

1966
Les Carabiniers

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Marino Masé, Albert Juross, Geneviève Galéa, Catherine Ribeiro

Synopsis: Jean-Luc Godard directed this brutal and purposefully harsh satire (adapted from a play by Benjamino Joppolo) which explores the grim folly of war. Ulysses (Marino Masé) and Michel Ange (Albert Juross) are a pair of thickheaded peasants living in a nameless country who receive a visit from a pair Read More

5/31/63
RoGoPaG

Crew: Director

Actors: Alexandra Stewart, Rosanna Schiaffino, Jean-Marc Bory, Orson Welles, Jean-Andre Fieschi, Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Delahaye

Synopsis: RoGoPaG is an omnibus of short films by Roberto Rossellini, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Ugo Gregoretti and Jean- Luc Godard. Each episode is introduced by a quotation from the Bible which the episode illustrates with a fiction of contemporary life. Rossellini's film, "Illibatezza" ("Virginity"), is the Read More

2/19/63
Anima Nera

Crew: Director

8/12/62
Vanina Vanini

Crew: Director

Actors: Sandra Milo, Laurent Terzieff, Martine Carol, Paolo Stoppa

Synopsis: Robert Rossellini's Vanina Vanini was released in many US markets as The Betrayer. Based on a Stendhal novel, the film is set in Italy during the turbulent years of the mid-19th century. Princess Vanini (Sandra Milo) confronts a strange looking woman in her palace. The woman turns out to be a man (Laurent Terzieff Read More

10/12/61
Viva L'italia!

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: The 1800s sees the emergence of a hero-statesman Italian who works to unify his country. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

2/2/61
Era Notte a Roma

Crew: Director

Actors: Giovanna Ralli, Sergei Bondarchuk, Leo Genn, Peter Baldwin, Renato Salvatori

Synopsis: In keeping with his previous film Generale Della Rovere, filmmaker Robert Rossellini pursues a wartime theme in his 145-minute "personal epic" Era Notte a Roma. The story concerns three Allied POWS, who escape from their camp and hide out in Rome. The trio is given shelter by a beautiful young Read More

7/31/60
Il Generale Della Rovere

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Vittorio De Sica, Hannes Messemer, Vittorio Caprioli, Sandra Milo, Anne Vernon

Synopsis: With a deft guiding hand, director Roberto Rossellini brings out the depths in this study of a man's transformation during the German occupation of Milan. Based on a novel by Indro Montanelli, the story is true. Colonel Mueller (Hannes Messemer) and his cohorts have decided to plant a spy in the Read More

10/7/59
India

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This uneven documentary on the sights and sounds and people of India by noted Italian director Roberto Rossellini mixes together city and country views, and a variety of disconnected events and activities like vegetables in a salad. It can still taste good even though there is not a discernible Read More

6/27/59
India: Matri Bhumi

Crew: Director

1959
La Paura

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Ingrid Bergman, Mathias Wiemann, Renate Mannhardt, Kurt Kreuger, Elise Aulinger

Synopsis: Roberto Rossellini directs his then-wife Ingrid Bergman in the suspenseful drama La Paura (Fear), based on the book by Stefan Zweig. Guilt-stricken Irene Wagner (Bergman) is forced to hide her secret affair with Erich Baumann (Kurt Kreuger) from her husband, Professor Albert Wagner (Mathias Read More

2/18/55
Giovanna d'Arco al Rogo

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Ingrid Bergman, Tullio Carminatti

Synopsis: It was once said of Ingrid Bergman that she'd played Joan of Arc so often that she wouldn't be satisfied until she was burned at the stake. Actually, nobody ever said that, but someone should have. Directed by Bergman's then-husband Roberto Rossellini, Joan at the Stake is a nonmusical adaptation Read More

12/20/54
Viaggio in Italia

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Ingrid Bergman, George Sanders, Leslie Daniels, Natalie Ray, Paul Muller, Anna Proclemer

Synopsis: Roberto Rossellini directs this drama starring his then-wife Ingrid Bergman as Katherine Joyce, a wealthy British woman who accompanies her husband, Alex (George Sanders), on a trip across the Italian countryside to close on an inherited villa in Naples. Far from their London home, the couple Read More

9/7/54
Dov'e la Liberta...?

Crew: Director

2/25/54
Amori Di Mezzo Secolo

Crew: Director

2/18/54
Siamo Donne

Crew: Director

10/22/53
Europa '51

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Ingrid Bergman, Alexander Knox, Ettore Giannini, Giulietta Masina, Sandro Franchina

Synopsis: Only a few of the films that grew from the notorious liaison between actress Ingrid Bergman and director Roberto Rossellini were truly worthy of their talents. One such was the Italian-made Europa '51. Playing a character far older than herself, Bergman portrays a society woman whose life is in Read More

12/4/52
La Macchina Ammazzacattivi

Crew: Director

5/14/52
Les Sept Péchés Capitaux

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Gérard Philipe, Viviane Romance, Frank Villard, Noël-Noël, Henri Vidal, Jacqueline Plessis, Isa Miranda, Eduardo de Filippo, Paolo Stoppa

Synopsis: The Seven Deadly Sins is a portmanteau film (a la Quartet and O. Henry's Full House) assembled by some of the biggest talents in the Italian and French film industry. The film's six sections (one containing two sins) are designed by separate titles, which should be self-explanatory. "Avarice and Read More

3/27/52
The Flowers of St. Francis

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Flowers of St. Francis (Francesco, giullare di Dio) is an early example of the "commercial" side of Roberto Rossellini. The film traces the life of St. Francis, from his embracing of religion to his efforts to establish a harmonious middle ground between life and spirituality. Rosselini has given Read More

12/14/50
Stromboli

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Ingrid Bergman, Mario Vitale, Renzo Cesana, Mario Sponza

Synopsis: Italian neo-realist pioneer Roberto Rossellini made his first (and, as it turned out, last) Hollywood-backed film with Stromboli. Karin (Ingrid Bergman) is a war refugee from Lithuania who has been placed in an internment camp. Desperate to get out and with few options, she accepts a proposal of Read More

10/8/50
Ways of Love

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Sylvia Bataille, Gabriel, Jane Marken [Jeanne]

Synopsis: The Ways of Love grew from an unfinished film: Jean Renoir's A Day in the Country, of which 46 minutes had been completed before funds ran out. In this French/Italian compendium, Country is combined with Marcel Pagnol's 1933 short subject Jofroi and Roberto Rosselini's 1948 character study The Miracle Read More

1950
Germany, Year Zero

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Edmund Meschke, Ernst Pittschau, Ingetraude Hinze, Franz Otto Krueger

Synopsis: In the third and final film of Rossellini's WWII trilogy, the director shifts his focus from his native Italy to the bombed-out ruins of Berlin, where 12-year-old Edmund Koehler struggles for survival. Among the nine people he lives with are: a father, who is suffering from malnutrition and a Read More

12/1/48
Amore

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Amore was the two-part Roberto Rossellini film which introduced his notorious vignette "The Miracle." This brief character study, written by Federico Fellini, tells of an incredibly naive Italian peasant woman (Anna Magnani) who is seduced by a passing stranger whom she believes to be Jesus. Thus Read More

10/30/48
Il Miracolo

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Anna Magnani

Synopsis: Both controversial and compelling, this is the story of a naive peasant girl who becomes pregnant after being seduced by a shepherd and believes that she is carrying a specially blessed child. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

1948
Paisan

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Carmela Sazio, Dotts Johnson, Maria Michi, Haniet White

Synopsis: Roberto Rossellini's Paisan (originally Paisa) is one of the best-known and most important of the postwar Italian neorealist films; certainly it has one of the finest pedigrees, representing the combined talents of two of Italy's most prestigious filmmakers. The second of Rossellini's "war Read More

12/10/46
Desiderio

Crew: Director

Actors: Elli Parvo, Carlo Ninchi, Massimo Girotti, Francesco Grandjacquet

Synopsis: Director Roberto Rossellini started this tragic drama in 1943, but was forced to abandon the project as wartime conditions in Italy became more desperate. He subsequently moved on to other efforts, and the film was completed in 1945 by director Marcello Pagliero; after some censorship Read More

1946
Open City

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Vito Annicchiarico, Nando Bruno, Aldo Fabrizi, Harry Feist, Anna Magnani

Synopsis: Roberto Rossellini's Roma, Città Aperta (known in English as Open City) was one of the landmark films of the 1940s on several levels. Aesthetically, it was one of the first major works of Italian neorealist filmmaking and perhaps the single most influential example of the style. Historically, it Read More

9/27/45
L'Uomo della Croce

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Man with a Cross was originally released in Italy as L'Uomo della Croce. Evidently, Roberto Rosselini had some difficulty concentrating on this one. He directed the film at the behest of the fascist government, at a time when his thoughts were probably focussed on his long-anticipated (and Read More

1943
Un Pilota Ritorna

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: A Fascist pilot, Lt. Gino Rossati (Massimo Girotti), is flying a bombing run from Italy to Greece in the early spring of 1941. He is shot down by British aircraft and becomes a prisoner of war, first of the British and later the Greeks. In one of the prison camps, he falls in love with Anna Read More

1942
La Nave Bianca

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Although released anonymously, as was the custom with all films produced by the Italian Navy, La Nave Bianca is the first feature-length effort directed by Roberto Rossellini; it is also very much the work of its co-writer and supervisor Francesco De Robertis. The film combines a documentary look Read More

1941

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