1. Mida, Roberto Rossellini , p. 72.

2. Pierre Kast, Cahiers du cinéma , no. 56 (February 1956). Quoted in Patrice Hovald, Le Néo-réalisme italien et ses créateurs (Paris: Éditions du Cerf, 1959), p. 117.

3. "A Panorama of History," 99. It is difficult to know just how much to credit Rossellini's statement concerning the film's producers. As we have seen, he often claimed that his films had been changed against his will, yet he rarely bothered to go into detail concerning the changes.

4. Interview, Cahiers du cinéma (1954), 6.

5. Franca Faldini and Goffredo Fofi, Totò: L'uomo e la maschera (Milan: Feltrinelli, 1977), p. 110.