Died 1977-06-03.
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Roberto Rossellini
Roberto Gastone Zeffiro Rossellini was an Italian film director, screenwriter and producer. He was one of the most prominent directors of the Italian neorealist cinema, contributing to the movement with films such as Rome, Open City (1945), Paisan (1946), and Germany, Year Zero (1948). He is also known for his films starring his then wife Ingrid Bergman, Stromboli (1950), Europe '51 (1952), Journe…
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Born 8 May 1906 · Died 3 June 1977 · Q53003
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1977· 3 entries
“I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism.”
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“Non sono un pessimista: vedere anche il male è, a mio parere, una forma di ottimismo.”
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1973· 2 entries
Was invited to teach at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, where he taught a one-semester course titled "The Essential Image
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Rossellini left Dasgupta for producer Silvia D'Amico Bendicò, but he remained married to Dasgupta until his death of a heart attack at age 71 in 1977
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1971· 1 entry
Rice University in Houston, Texas, invited Rossellini to help establish a Media Center, where in 1970 he had begun planning a film on science with Rice professor Donald D
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1966· 1 entry
With La Prise de pouvoir par Louis XIV, and continued predominately in the medium until the end of his career in 1977
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1957· 3 entries
Rossellini had an affair with Bengali screenwriter Sonali Dasgupta (née Senroy), and soon after, Bergman and Rossellini separated
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Jawaharlal Nehru, the prime minister of India at the time, invited him to India to make the documentary India and put some life into the floundering Indian Films Division
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Rossellini eloped with Dasgupta in 1957 when she was 27 years old.
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1956· 1 entry
He adopted her young son Arjun, renamed Gil Rossellini (23 October 1956 – 3 October 2008), who became a New York-based film producer.
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1948· 1 entry
Rossellini received a letter from a famous foreign actress proposing a collaboration:
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1947· 1 entry
Awarded Nastro d'Argento for the director of the best film (1947).
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1943· 1 entry
And two months after the liberation of Rome (4 June 1944), Rossellini began preparing the anti-fascist Roma città aperta (Rome, Open City, 1945), with Fellini assisting on the script
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1937· 1 entry
Rossellini shot his first film, Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, which was possibly unreleased and later lost
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1934· 1 entry
Rossellini married Assia Noris, a Russian actress who worked in Italian films; the marriage was annulled in 1936
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1918· 1 entry
And the young Rossellini started frequenting the cinema regularly at an early age
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1906· 1 entry
Born 1906-05-08.
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