Emerging from a Roman family whose patriarch built the city’s first modern cinema, Rossellini absorbed film culture early, later gaining hands-on experience in sound work and various production roles while his brother Renzo supplied scores for many of his projects. After an unreleased 1937 short, he assisted on successful wartime productions and directed three state-sponsored features-The White Sh… Read more
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources
Known for Rome, Open City 1945 Germany, Year Zero 1948 Paisan 1946 Journey to Italy 1954 Features 46 ★ 7.6 Germany, Year Zero 1948
★ 7.5 Paisan 1946
★ 7.5 General Della Rovere 1959
★ 7.3 Europa '51 1952
★ 7.2 Ro.Go.Pa.G. 1963
★ 7.1 The Flowers of St. Francis 1950
★ 7.5 Blaise Pascal 1972
★ 7.1 Socrates 1970
★ 8.5 Beaubourg, centre d'art et de culture 1977
★ 7.1 India: Matri Bhumi 1960
★ 10 Concert for Michelangelo 1977
The World Population 1974
★ 10 The World Population 1974
★ 7 Escape by Night 1960
Series ★ 9 Cartesius 1974
★ 7.5 Idea di un'isola 1967
Series ★ 8 L'età del ferro 1965
Series ★ 8 L'India vista da Rossellini 1959
★ 7 Interview with Salvador Allende: Power and Reason 1973
Torino nei cent'anni 1961
★ 7 Torino nei cent'anni 1961
★ 6 Le Psychodrame 1956
Series ★ 6.6 The Age of the Medici 1972
★ 6.5 Augustine of Hippo 1972
★ 6.6 The Messiah 1975
Series ★ 5.5 Acts of the Apostles 1969
★ 6.5 Viva l'Italia! 1961
★ 6.7 The Machine That Kills Bad People 1952
★ 6.5 Where Is Freedom? 1954
★ 6 Vanina Vanini 1961
★ 6.7 L'Amore 1948
★ 6 The Seven Deadly Sins 1952
★ 6.2 We, the Women 1953
★ 5.3 Year One 1974
★ 5.4 Dark Soul 1962
★ 5.6 Joan of Arc at the Stake 1954
★ 5.5 The Man with the Cross 1943
★ 5.2 Desire 1946
★ 5.5 The White Ship 1941
★ 5.2 A Pilot Returns 1942
★ 5.2 Mid-Century Loves 1954
★ 6.4 Fear 1954
Short films 10 ★ 9 The Brook of Ripa Sottile 1941
★ 7 Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun 1937
★ 6 Illibatezza 1963
★ 6.4 Undersea Fantasy 1940
★ 6 Il tacchino prepotente 1939
★ 6 La vispa Teresa 1939
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