Directed by Roberto Rossellini • 1952 • Italy
Starring Sergio Amidei, Gennaro Pisano, Marilyn Buferd
Roberto Rossellini blends neorealism with fantasy in this offbeat comic fable, one of the titan director’s most unique and overlooked works. In a small fishing village on the Amalfi Coast, a stranger claiming to be Saint Andrea (or is he really a demon?) bestows a self-righteous photographer’s camera with the power to kill “evil-doers” simply by photographing an existing picture of them. Initially, the indignant photographer uses his new weapon to do away with the wealthy and corrupt who misuse their power—but soon he falls prey to the very amoral selfishness that he supposedly despises.
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Fear
Directed by Roberto Rossellini • 1954 • Italy, West Germany
Starring Ingrid Bergman, Mathias Wieman, Renate MannhardtTinged with brooding noir atmosphere, the last of the celebrated collaborations between Roberto Rossellini and Ingrid Bergman is a tense portrait of the psychology of an extramar...
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Journey to Italy
Directed by Roberto Rossellini • 1954 • Italy
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India: Matri Bhumi
Directed by Roberto Rossellini • 1959 • Italy
Documentary and narrative merge in Roberto Rossellini’s miraculous, poetic portrait of India. Commissioned by India’s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, INDIA: MATRI BHUMI takes us beyond the bustling streets of the cities and into the country’s...
