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FILMOGRAPHY

FILMOGRAPHY

DAPHNE. Short, 1936.

PRÉLUDE À L'APRÈS-MIDI D'UN FAUNE. Short, 1938.

FANTASIA SOTTOMARINA (A Fantasy of the Deep). Presented by Incom. Music: Edorado [sic ] Miccuci. Photography: Rodolfo Lombardi. Director: Roberti [sic ] Rossellini. Distributed by Esperia Films. Short, 1939.

IL TACCHINO PREPOTENTE (The Overbearing Turkey). Photography: Mario Bava. Short, 1939.

LA VISPA TERESA (The Lively Teresa). Photography: Mario Bava. Short, 1939.

IL RUSCELLO DI RIPASOTTILE (The Brook of Ripasottile). Short, 1941.

LA NAVE BIANCA (The White Ship). 1941. Subject and supervision: Francesco De Robertis. Screenplay: Francesco De Robertis and Roberto Rossellini. Photography: Emanuele Caracciolo. Set design: Amleto Bonetti. Music: Renzo Rossellini. Editing: Eraldo Da Roma. Produced by Scalera and the Centro Cinematografico del Ministero della Marina. With nonprofessional actors. 77 minutes.

UN PILOTA RITORNA (A Pilot Returns). 1942. Subject: Tito Silvio Mursino [Vittorio Mussolini]. Screenplay: Michelangelo Antonioni, Ugo Betti, Gherardo Gherardi, Rosario Leone, Massimo Mida, Margherita Maglione, Roberto Rossellini. Photography: Vincenzo Seratrice. Music: Renzo Rossellini. Editing: Eraldo Da Roma. Produced by ACI. With Massimo Girotti (Lieutenant Rossati, the pilot), Michela Belmonte (the girl), Gaetano Masier, Piero Lulli, Elvira Betrone, Piero Palmerini, Jole Tinta, Nino Brondello, and the officers and men of the Italian air force. 87 minutes.

L'UOMO DALLA CROCE (The Man of the Cross). 1943. Subject: Asvero Gravelli. Screenplay: Asvero Gravelli, Alberto Consiglio, G. D'Alicandro, Robert Rossellini. Photography: Guglielmo Lombardi. Set design: Gastone Medin. Music: Renzo Rossellini. Produced by


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Continentalcine, Cines. With Alberto Tavazzi (the priest), Roswitha Schmidt (Irina), Aldo Capacci, Franco Castellani, Attilio Dottesio, Doris Hild, Zoia Weneda, Antonio Marietti. 88 minutes.

DESIDERIO (Desire). 1943–46. [Completed by Marcello Pagliero in 1946.] Subject: A. I. Benvenuti. Screenplay: Rosario Leone, Giuseppe De Santis, Roberto Rossellini, Diego Calcagno, Marcello Pagliero, Guglielmo Santangelo. Photography: Rodolfo Lombardi and Ugo Lombardi. Music: Renzo Rossellini. Produced by Sovrania, SAEIR. With Elli Parvo (Paola), Massimo Girotti (Nando), Carlo Ninchi (Giovanni), Lia Corelli, Francesco Grandjacquet (Riccardo), Roswitha Schmidt (Anna). 102 minutes.

ROMA, CITTÀ APERTA (Open City). 1945. Subject: Alberto Consiglio and Sergio Amidei. Screenplay: Sergio Amidei, Federico Fellini, Roberto Rossellini. Photography: Ubaldo Arata. Music: Renzo Rossellini. Editing: Eraldo Da Roma. Produced by Excelsa-Film. With Aldo Fabrizi (Don Pietro), Anna Magnani (Pina), Marcello Pagliero (Manfredi), Maria Michi (Marina), Harry Feist (Bergmann), Giovanna Galletti (Ingrid), Francesco Grandjacquet (Francesco), Carla Rovere (Lauretta, Pina's sister), Vito Annichiarico (Marcello, Pina's son), Nando Bruno (Agostino), Joop Van Hulzen (Hartmann), Akos Tolnay (the Austrian deserter), Alberto Tavazzi (a priest). 100 minutes.

PAISÀ (Paisan). 1946. Subject: Sergio Amidei, with the collaboration of Klaus Mann, Federico Fellini, Alfred Hayes, Marcello Pagliero, Roberto Rossellini, Vasco Pratolini. Screenplay: Sergio Amidei, Federico Fellini, Roberto Rossellini. Photography: Otello Martelli. Music: Renzo Rossellini. Editing: Eraldo Da Roma. Produced by Mario Conti and Rod E. Geiger for the OFI in collaboration with Foreign Film Production, Inc. With (first episode, Sicily) Carmela Sazio (Carmela), Robert Van Loon (Joe from Jersey); (second episode, Naples) Dots M. Johnson (black M.P.), Alfonsino (boy); (third episode, Rome) Gar Moore (Fred), Maria Michi (Francesca); (fourth episode, Florence) Harriet White (Harriet, the nurse), Renzo Avanzo (Massimo); (fifth episode, Romagna) Bill Tubbs (American priest) and Franciscan monks; (sixth episode, the Po) Dale Edmunds (Dale), Cigolani (the partisan). 124 minutes.

GERMANIA ANNO ZERO (Germany, Year Zero). 1947. Subject: Roberto Rossellini. Screenplay: Roberto Rossellini, Carlo Lizzani, Max Kolpet. Photography: Robert Juillard. Set design: Piero Filippone. Music: Renzo Rossellini. Editing: Eraldo Da Roma. Produced by Alfredo Guarini and Roberto Rossellini for Tevere Film, in collaboration with Salvo D'Angelo Production (Rome), Sadfi (Berlin), and UGC (Paris). With Edmund Moeschke (Edmund), Ernst Pittschau (his father), Franz Krüger (his brother), Ingetraud Hintze (his sister), Erich Gühne (his teacher). 78 minutes.

L'AMORE (Love). 1948.
Part 1: UNA VOCE UMANA (The Human Voice). Subject: From the one-act play "La Voix humaine," by Jean Cocteau. Screenplay: Roberto Rossellini. Photography: Robert Juillard. Set design: Christian Bérard. Music: Renzo Rossellini. Editing: Eraldo Da Roma. Produced by Roberto Rossellini for Tevere Film. With Anna Magnani. 35 minutes.
Part 2: IL MIRACOLO (The Miracle). Subject: Federico Fellini. Screenplay: Tullio Pinelli, Roberto Rossellini. Photography: Aldo Tonti. Music: Renzo Rossellini. Editing: Eraldo Da Roma. Produced by Roberto Rossellini for Tevere Film. With Anna Magnani (Nanni) and Federico Fellini ("Saint Joseph"). 43 minutes. [NOTE: This episode was originally released in the United States in 1950 by Joseph Burstyn, as part of an episode


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film entitled Ways of Love . The other two parts were Marcel Pagnol's Joffroi and Jean Renoir's A Day in the Country .]

LA MACCHINA AMMAZZACATTIVI (The Machine to Kill Bad People). 1948–52. Subject: Eduardo De Filippo, Fabrizio Sarazani. Screenplay: Sergio Amidei, Giancarlo Vigorelli, Franco Brusati, Liana Ferri, Roberto Rossellini. Photography: Tino Santoni, Enrico Betti Berutto. Music: Renzo Rossellini. Editing: Jolanda Benvenuti. Produced by Universalia, Tevere Film. With Gennaro Pisano (Celestino, the photographer), Giovanni Amato (the mayor), Bill Tubbs and Helen Tubbs (American tourists), and the people of Majori, Amalfii, and Atrani. 83 minutes.

STROMBOLI, TERRA DI DIO (Stromboli, Land of God). 1949. Subject: Roberto Rossellini. Screenplay: Roberto Rossellini, Gian Paolo Callegari, Renzo Cesana, Art Cohn, Sergio Amidei. Photography: Otello Martelli. Music: Renzo Rossellini. Editing: Jolanda Benvenuti and Roland Gross (for the American version). Produced by Berit Film (Roberto Rossellini and Ingrid Bergman) and RKO. With Ingrid Bergman (Karin), Mario Vitale (Antonio, her husband), Renzo Cesana (the priest), Mario Sponza (the lighthouse keeper), and the people of Stromboli. 105 minutes (81 minutes in the American version).

FRANCESCO, GIULLARE DI DIO (Francis, God's Jester; The Flowers of Saint Francis). 1950. Subject: Roberto Rossellini, from The Little Flowers of St. Francis and The Life of Brother Ginepro. Screenplay: Roberto Rossellini, Federico Fellini, with the collaboration of Father Felix Morlion and Father Antonio Lisandrini. Photography: Otello Martelli. Music: Renzo Rossellini, and for the liturgical songs, Father Enrico Buondonno. Editing: Jolanda Benvenuti. Produced by Giuseppe Amato for Cineriz (Angelo Rizzoli). With Aldo Fabrizi (Nicolaio, the tyrant), Arabella Lemaitre (Saint Clair), and nonprofessional actors, including Brother Nazario Gerardi (Saint Francis). 75 minutes.

"L'Invidia" (Envy), fifth episode of I SETTE PECCATI CAPITALI (The Seven Deadly Sins). 1951. Subject: Roberto Rossellini, from the short novel "La Chatte," by Colette. Screenplay: Roberto Rossellini, Diego Fabbri, Liana Ferri, Turi Vasile. Photography: Enzo Serafin. Set design: Hugo Blaetter. Music: Yves Baudrier. Produced by Film Costellazione (Rome) and Franco-London Film (Paris). With Orfeo Tamburi (Orfeo), Andrée Debar (Camille), Nicola Ciarletta, Nino Franchina. 20 minutes. [NOTE: The directors of the other episodes were Yves Allégret, Claude Autant-Lara, Carlo Rim, Jean Dreville, Eduardo De Filippo, and Georges Lacombe.]

EUROPA '51. [Also known as The Greatest Love]. 1952. Subject: Roberto Rossellini. Screenplay: Sandro De Feo, Roberto Rossellini, Mario Pannunzio, Ivo Perilli, Diego Fabbri, Antonio Pietrangeli, Brunello Rondi. Photography: Aldo Tonti. Set design: Virgilio Marchi. Music: Renzo Rossellini. Editing: Jolanda Benvenuti. Produced by Carlo Ponti and Dino De Laurentiis. With Ingrid Bergman (Irene), Alexander Knox (George, her husband), Sandro Franchina (her son), Ettore Giannini (Andrea, the Communist), Giulietta Masina ("La Passerotto"), Teresa Pellati (Ines, the prostitute). 110 minutes. [NOTE: This film was awarded the International Prize "ex-aequo" at the Venice film festival in 1952, along with John Ford's The Quiet Man and Kenji Mizoguchi's Life of Oharu .]

DOV'È LA LIBERTÀ? (Where Is Freedom?). 1952–54. Subject: Roberto Rossellini. Screenplay: Roberto Rossellini, Vitaliano Brancati, Ennio Flaiano, Antonio Pietrangeli, Vincenzo Talarico. Photography: Aldo Tonti, Tonino Delli Colli. Set design: Virgilio Marchi. Music: Renzo Rossellini. Editing: Jolanda Benvenuti. Produced by Carlo Ponti, Dino De


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Laurentiis/Golden Films. With Totò (Salvatore Lojacono), Nyta Dover, Vera Molnar, Leopoldo Trieste, Franca Faldini. 89 minutes.

VIAGGIO IN ITALIA (Voyage to Italy). 1953. Subject and screenplay: Roberto Rossellini, Vitaliano Brancati. Photography: Enzo Serafin. Set design: Piero Filippone. Music: Renzo Rossellini. Editing: Jolanda Benvenuti. Produced by Sveva, Junior, Italiafilm. With Ingrid Bergman (Katherine Joyce), George Sanders (Alexander Joyce), Leslie Daniels (Tony Burton) Natalia Ray (Natalia Burton), Marie Maubon (Maria), Anna Proclemer (the prostitute). 75 minutes.

"Ingrid Bergman," episode of SIAMO DONNE (We, the Women). 1952. Subject and screenplay: Cesare Zavattini (for all the episodes), with the collaboration of Luigi Chiarini for the Rossellini episode. Photography: Otello Martelli. Music: Alessandro Cicognini. Editing: Jolanda Benvenuti. Produced by Titanus and Film Costellazione. With Ingrid Bergman as herself, the Rossellini children, and Albamaria Setaccioli. 20 minutes. [Other episodes by Alfredo Guarini, Gianni Franciolini, Luigi Zampa, and Luchino Visconti.]

"Napoli '43," episode of AMORI DI MEZZO SECOLO (Mid-Century Loves). 1953. Subject and screenplay: Roberto Rossellini. Photography: Tonino Delli Colli (in Ferraniacolor). Set design: Mario Chiari. Music: Carlo Rustichelli. Editing: Jolanda Benvenuti, Dolores Tamburini. Produced by Carlo Infascelli for Excelsa, Roma Film. With Antonella Lualdi, Franco Pastoriano. 15 minutes. [Other episodes by Glauco Pellegrini, Pietro Germi, Mario Chiari, and Antonio Pietrangeli.]

GIOVANNA D'ARCO AL ROGO (Joan of Arc at the Stake). 1954. Subject from the dramatic oratorio by Paul Claudel, with music by Arthur Honegger. Cinematic adaptation: Roberto Rossellini. Photography: Gabor Pogany (in Gevacolor). Set design: Carlo Maria Cristini. Music: Arthur Honegger. Editing: Jolanda Benvenuti. Produced by Produzioni Cinematografiche Associate (Rome), Franco-London Film (Paris). With Ingrid Bergman (Joan of Arc), Tullio Carminati (Brother Domenico), Giacinto Prandelli (Porcus), Saturno Meletti, Augusto Romani. 76 minutes.

LA PAURA (Angst; Fear; also known as Non credo più all'amore [I No Longer Believe in Love]). 1954–55. Subject: From the novella by Stefan Zweig. Screenplay: Sergio Amidei, Franz Treuberg, Roberto Rossellini. Photography: Carlo Carlini. Music: Renzo Rossellini. Editing: Jolanda Benvenuti, Walter Boos. Produced by Ariston Film (Munich) and Aniene Film (Rome). With Ingrid Bergman (Irene Wagner), Mathias Wieman (her husband), Renate Manhardt (Johanna Schultze). 83 minutes.

INDIA ['58]. (Also known as India, Matri Bhumi [India, Mother Earth]). 1958. Subject: Roberto Rossellini. Screenplay: Roberto Rossellini, Sonali Senroy Das Gupta, Fereydoun Hoveyda. Photography: Aldo Tonti (in Gevacolor, Ferraniacolor, Kodachrome; surviving copy in the United States is in black and white). Music: Philippe Arthuys. Editing: Cesare Cavagna. Produced by Aniene Film (Rome), Union Générale Cinématographique (Paris), with the aid of Indian Films Development. Nonprofessional actors. Four episodes, 90 minutes. [NOTE A four-hour, ten-episode, sixteen-millimeter version of this film was broadcast in 1959 on Italian television as "L'India vista da Rossellini" (Rossellini Looks at India) and on French television as "J'ai fait un beau voyage" (I Had a Fine Trip).]

IL GENERALE DELLA ROVERE (General della Rovere). 1959. Subject from the story by Indro Montanelli, adapted from a true story. Screenplay: Sergio Amidei, Diego Fabbri, Indro


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Montanelli, Roberto Rossellini. Photography: Carlo Carlini. Set design: Piero Zuffi. Music: Renzo Rossellini. Editing: Cesare Cavagna. Produced by Morris Ergas for Zebra Film (Rome), Gaumont (Paris). With Vittorio De Sica (Bertone, alias Grimaldi), Hannes Messemer (Colonel Muller), Sandra Milo (Olga), Giovanna Ralli (Valeria). 130 minutes. [NOTE: This film won the Golden Lion at the Venice film festival in 1959, shared with Monicelli's La grande guerra .]

ERA NOTTE A ROMA (It Was Night in Rome). 1960. Subject: Sergio Amidei. Screenplay: Sergio Amidei, Diego Fabbri, Brunello Rondi, Roberto Rossellini. Photography: Carlo Carlini. Set design: Flavio Mogherini. Music: Renzo Rossellini. Editing: Roberto Cinquini. Produced by International Golden Star (Genoa), Film Dismage (Paris). With Leo Genn (Pemberton), Giovanna Ralli (Esperia), Serge Bondarchuk (the Russian sergeant), Peter Baldwin (Lieutenant Bradley), Renato Salvatori (Renato), Paolo Stoppa (Prince Antoniani), George Petrarca (Tarcisio), Hannes Messemer (Von Kleist). 120 minutes.

VIVA L'ITALIA! 1960. Subject: Sergio Amidei, Antonio Petrucci, Carlo Alianello, Luigi Chiarini. Screenplay: Sergio Amidei, Diego Fabbri, Antonio Petrucci, Roberto Rossellini, Antonello Trombadori. Photography: Luciano Trasatti (in Eastmancolor). Set design: Gepy Mariani. Costumes: Marcella De Marchis. Music: Renzo Rossellini. Editing: Roberto Cinquini. Produced by Cinematografica, Tempo Film, Galatea, Zebra Film. With Renzo Ricci (Garibaldi), Paolo Stoppa (Nino Bixio), Franco Interlenghi (Giuseppe Bandi), Giovanna Ralli (Rosa), Raimondo Croce (Francis II), Tina Louise (foreign journalist). 128 minutes.

VANINA VANINI. 1961. Subject taken from Stendhal's Chroniques italiennes. Screenplay: Roberto Rossellini, Antonello Trombadori, Franco Solinas, Monique Lange, Diego Fabbri, Jean Gruault. Photography: Luciano Trasatti (in Technicolor). Set design: Luigi Scaccianoce. Costumes: Danilo Donato. Music: Renzo Rossellini. Editing: Daniele Alabiso. Produced by Zebra Film (Morris Ergas), Orsay-Film (Paris). With Sandra Milo (Vanina), Laurent Terzieff (Pietro Missirilli), Martine Carol (Countess Vitelleschi), Paolo Stoppa (Prince Asdrubale Vanini), Leonardo Botta (Vanina's confessor), Nerio Bernardi (Cardinal Savelli). 125 minutes.

TORINO NEI CENTO ANNI (Turin Through the Last 100 Years). 1961. Subject and screenplay: Valentino Orsini. Commentary written by: Vittorio Gorresio. Photography: Leopoldo Piccinelli, Mario Vulpiani, Mario Volpi (sixteen-millimeter). Produced by RAI-TV. Television documentary, 46 minutes. [NOTE: Broadcast September 10, 1961, at 10:25 P.M.]

ANIMA NERA (Black Soul). 1962. Subject: From the play by Giuseppe Patroni Griffi. Screenplay: Roberto Rossellini, Alfio Valdarini. Photography: Luciano Trasatti. Music: Piero Piccioni. Editing: Daniele Alabiso. Produced by Documento Film (Rome), Le Louvre Film (Paris). With Vittorio Gassman (Adriano), Annette Stroyberg (Marcella), Nadja Tiller (Mimosa), Eleonora Rossi Drago (Alessandra), Yvonne Sanson (Olga), Giovanni Cocuzzoli (Sergio). 97 minutes.

"Illibatezza" (Chastity), episode of ROGOPAG. 1962. Subject and screenplay: Roberto Rossellini. Photography: Luciano Trasatti. Set design: Flavio Mogherini. Music: Carlo Rustichelli. Editing: Daniele Alabiso. Produced by Arco Film (Rome), Société Lyre Cinématographique (Paris). With Rosanna Schiaffino (Anna Maria), Bruce Balaban (Joe), Carlo Zappavigna (Anna Maria's fiancé). 33 minutes. [NOTE: Other episodes were directed by Jean-Luc Godard, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and Ugo Gregoretti.]


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L'ETÀ DEL FERRO (The Iron Age). 1964. Director: Renzo Rossellini. Subject, screenplay, and supervision: Roberto Rossellini. Photography: Carlo Carlini. Set design: Gepy Mariani. Costumes: Marcella De Marchis. Music: Carmine Rizzo. Editing: Daniele Alabiso. Produced by 22 Dicembre and the Istituto Luce, for RAI-TV. With nonprofessional actors. Five episodes, approximately 50–60 minutes each. [NOTE: Broadcast on channel 2 of the RAI during February and March of 1965.]

LA LOTTA DELL'UOMO PER LA SUA SOPRAVVIVENZA (Man's Struggle for Survival). Begun 1964, completed in 1970. Director: Renzo Rossellini. Subject, screenplay, and supervision: Roberto Rossellini. Photography: Mario Fioretti. Set design: Gepy Mariani, Virgil Moise. Costumes: Marcella De Marchis. Music: Mario Nascimbene. Editing: Daniele Alabiso, Gabriele Alessandro, Alfredo Muschietti. Produced by Orizzonte 2000 (Roberto Rossellini), RAI, Logos Film (Paris), Romania Film (Bucharest), Copro Film (Cairo). With nonprofessional actors. Twelve episodes, approximately 50–60 minutes each. [NOTE: The first six episodes were broadcast on channel 1 of RAI in August and September of 1970, and the remaining six were broadcast on channel 2 in September and October of 1971. Titles of individual episodes: 1. Prima della storia, l'uomo (Before history, man); 2. La civiltà che nacque da un fiume (The civilization which rose from a river); 3: Dall'angoscia dei miti al Dio che è salvezza (From the anxiety of myths to the God who is salvation); 4: Un'arca nel diluvio: il monachesimo (An ark in the flood: monasticism); 5: Il medioevo, età di pietra e di ferro (The Middle Ages, age of stone and iron); 6: Verso la scienza, patria dell'uomo (Toward science, man's country); 7: In cerca delle Indie oltre l'oceano ignoto (In search of India beyond the unknown ocean); 8: Dall'età della magia all'età della scienza (From the age of magic to the age of science); 9: Lo spirito scientifico conquista il mondo (The scientific spirit conquers the world); 10: Questa nostra grandiosa civiltà della fretta (This great hurried civilization of ours); 11: Un'arte nuova in un mondo di macchine (A new art in a world of machines); 12: Nonostante tutto, ancora più lontano (In spite of everything, still further).]

LA PRISE DE POUVOIR PAR LOUIS XIV (The Rise to Power of Louis XIV). 1966. Screenplay: Philippe Erlanger [?]. Adaptation and dialogue: Jean Gruault. Photography: Georges Leclerc (in Eastmancolor). Set design: Maurice Valay. Costumes: Christiane Coste. Editing: Armand Ridel. Produced by the ORTF (French television). With Jean-Marie Patte (Louis XIV), Raymond Jourdan (Colbert), Silvagni (Mazarin), Katharina Renn (Anne of Austria), Dominique Vincent (Madame Du Plessis), Pierre Barrat (Fouquet). 102 minutes.

IDEA DI UN'ISOLA (Sicily: Idea of an Island; version shown on American television entitled "Roberto Rossellini's Sicily"). 1967. Screenplay: Roberto Rossellini. Photography: Mario Fioretti. Music: Mario Nascimbene. Editing: Maria Rosada. Produced by Orizzonte 2000. Documentary made for American television (NBC). 52 minutes. [NOTE: Broadcast in color on NBC in 1968, and later broadcast by channel 2 of RAI on February 3, 1970, in black and white.]

ATTI DEGLI APOSTOLI (Acts of the Apostles). 1969. Subject taken from the Acts of the Apostles in the New Testament. Screenplay: Jean-Dominique de La Rochefoucauld, Luciano Scaffa, Vittorio Bonicelli, Roberto Rossellini. Photography: Mario Fioretti (Eastmancolor). Set design: Gepy Mariani, Carmelo Patrono. Costumes: Marcella De Marchis. Music: Mario Nascimbene. Editing: Jolanda Benvenuti. Produced by Orizzonte 2000 for the RAI, the ORTF, TVE Madrid, Studio (Hamburg. With Edoardo Torricella (Paul), Jacques Dumur (Peter), Renzo Rossi (Zacharia), Mohamed Kouka (John), Bradai Ridha (Matthew), Beppy Mannaiuolo (Phillip). Broadcast by the RAI in five episodes (each an hour or more) on consecutive Sundays in April and May, 1969.


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SOCRATE (Socrates). 1970. Screenplay: Roberto Rossellini and Marcella Rossellini Mariani. Dialogue: Jean-Dominique de La Rochefoucauld. Photography: Jorge Herrero Martin (Eastmancolor). Set design: Giusto Puri Purini, Bernardo Ballester. Costumes: Marcella De Marchis. Music: Mario Nascimbene. Editing: Alfredo Muschietto. Produced by Orizzonte 2000 for the RAI, the ORTF, TVE Madrid. With Jean Sylvère (Socrates), Anne Caprile (Xanthippe), Ricardo Palacios (Critone), Beppy Mannaiuolo (Appollodorus). 120 minutes. [NOTE: Broadcast in two parts on channel 1 of the RAI on June 17 and 20, 1971.]

BLAISE PASCAL. 1972. Screenplay: Roberto Rossellini, Marcella Rossellini Mariani, Luciano Scaffa. Dialogue: Jean-Dominique de La Rochefoucauld. Photography: Mario Fioretti (Eastmancolor). Set design: Franco Velchi. Costumes: Marcella De Marchis. Music: Mario Nascimbene. Editing: Jolanda Benvenuti. Produced by Orizzonte 2000, RAI-TV, ORTF. With Pierre Arditi (Blaise Pascal), Rita Forzano (Jacqueline, his sister), Giuseppe Addobbati (Etienne, his father), Bruno Cattaneo (Jean Deschamps), Bernard Rigal (Seguier), Claude Baks (Descartes), Tullio Valli (Father Mersenne). 131 minutes. [NOTE: Broadcast in two parts on channel 1 of the RAI in May 1972.]

INTERVISTA CON SALVADOR ALLENDE (Interview With Salvador Allende). 1971. Directed by Emidio Grego. An interview between Roberto Rossellini and Allende, then president of Chile. Produced by Orizzonte 2000 and La San Diego Cinematografica. 36 minutes. [NOTE: First broadcast by the RAI on September 15, 1973, just after the right-wing coup that ousted Allende.]

AGOSTINO D'IPPONA (Augustine of Hippo). 1972. Screenplay: Roberto Rossellini, Marcella Rossellini Mariani, Luciano Scaffa. Dialogue: Jean-Dominique de La Rochefoucauld. Photography: Mario Fioretti (Eastmancolor). Set design: Franco Velchi. Costumes: Marcella De Marchis. Music: Mario Nascimbene. Editing: Jolanda Benvenuti. Produced by Orizzonte 2000, RAI-TV. With Dary Berkany (Augustine), Virginio Gazzolo (Alypius), Cesare Barbetti (Volusianus), Bruno Cattaneo (Maximus), Leonardo Fioravanti (Milesius), Beppy Mannaiuolo (Severus), Dannunzio Papini (Roman judge). 117 minutes. [NOTE: Broadcast in two parts on channel 1 of the RAI on October 25 and November 1, 1972.]

L'ETÀ DI COSIMO DE' MEDICI (The Age of the Medici). 1972. Titles of the three episodes: "L'Esilio di Cosimo" (Cosimo's Exile; also known as Cosimo de' Medici), "Il Potere di Cosimo" (The Power of Cosimo), and "Leon Battista Alberti." Screenplay: Roberto Rossellini, Marcella Rossellini Mariani, Luciano Scaffa. Photography: Mario Montuori (Eastmancolor). Set design: Franco Velchi. Costumes: Marcella De Marchis. Music: Manuel De Sica. Editing: Jolanda Benvenuti. Produced by Orizzonte 2000, RAI-TV. With Marcello Di Falco (Cosimo), Virginio Gazzolo (Alberti), Tom Felleghi (Rinaldo degli Albizi), Mario Erpichini (Totto Machiavelli), Adriano Migliano (Carlo degli Alberti), John Stacy (Ilarione de' Bardi), Sergio Nicolai (Francesco Soderini), Michel Bardinet (Ciriaco d'Arpaso), Mario Demo (Sigismondo Malatesta), Ugo Cardea (Niccolò Cusano), Lincoln Tate (Thomas Wadding), Marino Mase (Francesco Filelfo). 250 minutes. [NOTE: Broadcast in three parts on channel 1 of the RAI on December 26, 1972, and January 2 and 9, 1973.]

CARTESIUS (Cartesio; Descartes). 1974. Screenplay: Roberto Rossellini, Marcella Rossellini Mariani, Luciano Scaffa. Photography: Mario Montuori (Eastmancolor). Set design: Giuseppe Mangano. Costumes: Marcella De Marchis. Music: Mario Nascimbene. Editing: Jolanda Benvenuti. Produced by Orizzonte 2000, RAI-TV, ORTF. With Ugo Cardea (Descartes), Anne Pouchie (Elena), Claude Berthy (Guez de Balzac), Gabriele Banchero (Bretagne), John Stacy (Levasseur d'Etioles), Charles Borromel (Father Mer-


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senne), Kenneth Belton (Beeckman), Renato Montalbano (Huygens), Vernon Dobtcheff (the astronomer Ciprus). 150 minutes. [NOTE: Broadcast in two parts on channel 1 of the RAI on February 20 and 27, 1974.]

ANNO UNO (Italy: Year One). 1974. Screenplay: Roberto Rossellini, Marcella Rossellini Mariani, Luciano Scaffa. Photography: Mario Montuori (Eastmancolor). Set design: Giuseppe Mangano. Costumes: Marcella De Marchis. Music: Mario Nascimbene. Editing: Jolanda Benvenuti. Produced by Rusconi Film. With Luigi Vannucchi (Alcide De Gasperi), Valeria Sabel (Francesca, his wife), Dominique Darel (Maria Romana De Gasperi), Rita Forzano (Lucia De Gasperi), Ennio Balbo (Nenni), Luciano Gaudenzio (Longo), Renato Montanari (Secchia), Paolo Bonacelli (Amendola), Francesco Di Federico (Saragat), Tino Bianchi (Togliatti). 115 minutes.

THE WORLD POPULATION. 1974. Documentary on the population explosion, produced by UNESCO for the United Nations. Approximately 120 minutes. [NOTE: According to Aprà's filmography in Roberto Rossellini: Le Cinéma révélé , the film was shown during a congress on world population held in Bucharest in 1974 and subsequently distributed by the United Nations throughout the world.]

IL MESSIA (The Messiah). 1975. Screenplay: Roberto Rossellini, Silvia D'Amico Bendicò. Photography: Mario Montuori (Eastmancolor). Set design: Giorgio Bertolini. Costumes: Marcella De Marchis. Music: Mario Nascimbene. Editing: Jolanda Benvenuti, Laurent Quaglio. Produced by Procinex, FR3 Télé-Film Production, Orizzonte 2000. With Pier Maria Rossi (Jesus), Mita Ungaro (Mary), Carlos de Carvalho (John the Baptist), Fausto di Bella (Saul), Vernon Dobtcheff (Samuel), Antonella Fasano (Mary Magdalen), Jean Martin (Pontius Pilate), Toni Ucci (Herod Antipas), Vittorio Caprioli (Herod the Great), Anita Bartolucci (the Samaritan woman), Cosetta Pichetti (Salome), Raouf Ben Amor (Judas), Luis Suarez (John), Hedi Zouglami (Peter), Renato Montalbano (Matthew). 145 minutes. [NOTE: Originally produced in Italian, French, and English versions.]

CONCERTO PER MICHELANGELO (Concert for Michelangelo). 1977. Photography: Mario Montuori (35-millimeter film and video). Filmed in the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican with the participation of the chorus of the Cappella Musicale Pontificia, directed by Maestro Domenico Bartolucci. Produced by the RAI. Approximately 60 minutes. [NOTE: Broadcast on channel 2 of the RAI on Holy Saturday, April 9, 1977.]

BEAUBOURG, CENTRE D' ART ET DE CULTURE GEORGES POMPIDOU. 1977. Photography: Nestor Almendros (Eastmancolor). Editing: Véritable Silve, Colette Le Tallec, Dominique Taysse. Produced by Création 9 Information-Film, Jacques Grandclaude. 57 minutes. [NOTE: The credits state that Rossellini finished the film on May 6, 1977, and had in mind to make some final changes but was prevented from doing so by his death on June 3, 1977.]

NOTE: More complete details can be found in Adriano Aprà's filmography published in Roberto Rossellini: Le Cinéma révélé , edited by Alain Bergala. Though Aprà's filmography is seriously marred by typographical and other errors, its massive scope clearly makes it the definitive Rossellini filmography, and it is the source of some of the information provided above.


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Preferred Citation: Brunette, Peter. Roberto Rossellini. Berkeley:  University of California Press,  c1996 1996. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft709nb48d/