"FREE" CINEMA ITALIANO @ NGA:"TRIP TO ITALY" by World Famous director ROSSELLINI

SETTIMANA DELLA LINGUA & CULTURA ITALIANA NEL MONDO
A “FREE” CELEBRATION of ITALIAN ART, MUSIC, and FILM

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“FREE” CINEMA ITALIANO

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The NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART and
THE EMBASSY OF ITALY / ITALIAN CULTURAL INSTITUTE
Present:

“FREE” ITALIAN FILM:
"VIAGGIO IN ITALIA" (A TRIP to ITALY)
by Roberto ROSSELLINI
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2012 @ 4:30 PM
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART
EAST Building Concourse, AUDITORIUM
401 Constitution Ave. NW | Washington, DC 20565
PHONE: (202) 842-6799
"FREE" ADMISSION: 1st COME, 1st SEATED
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Film Restoration from L'Immagine Ritrovata, Bologna

ABOUT DIRECTOR ROBERTO ROSSELLINI - An interesting LIFE

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Roberto Rossellini, a famous Italian film director and screenwriter, was born in Rome and was one of the directors of the Italian neorealist cinema, contributing films such as Roma città aperta (Rome, Open City 1945); Paisà (1946), and Germany, Year Zero or the so-called Neorealistic Trilogy. Rossellini preferred non-actors in his films. He once declared in an interview: "In order to really create the character that one has in mind, it is necessary for the director to engage in a battle with his actor which usually ends with submitting to the actor's wish. Since I do not have the desire to waste my energy in a battle like this, I only use professional actors occasionally".
Yet, in 1948 Rossellini received a letter from a famous foreign actress residing in Hollywood, CA. proposing an interesting collaboration:

Dear Mr. Rossellini,
I saw your films Rome Open City and Paisa’, and enjoyed them very much. If you need a Swedish actress who speaks English very well, who has not forgotten her German, who is not very understandable in French, and who in Italian knows only "Ti amo!", (I love you)! I am ready to come and make a film with you. - s/Ingrid Bergman

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With this letter began one of the best known love stories in film history, with Bergman and Rossellini both at the peak of their careers. Their first collaboration was “Stromboli Terra di Dio” (1950) filmed on the volcanic island of “Stromboli” off the Sicilian North-East coast (provincia di Messina) followed by the film “Viaggio in Italia”. This affair caused a great scandal in some countries (Bergman and Rossellini were both married to other people). The scandal intensified when Bergman became pregnant with Roberto Ingmar Rossellini. Rossellini and Bergman had two more children, Isabella Rossellini (today’s famous actress, film maker, model) and her twin, Ingrid Isotta.

http://photos2.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/1/1/a/600_143820282.jpegUNIVERSAL Beauty! Simply Stunning!!! Isabella ROSSELLINI
daughter of Ingrid Bergman & Roberto Rossellini
Actress, filmmaker, author, model, philanthropist

In 1957, Jawaharlal Nehru, the Indian Prime Minister at the time, invited director Roberto Rossellini to India to make the documentary "INDIA" and put some life into the floundering Indian Films Division. Though married to Bergman, he had an affair with Sonali Das Gupta, a screenwriter, who was helping develop vignettes for the film and together had a daughter Raffaella Rossellini. Given the climate of the 1950s this led to a huge scandal in India as well as Hollywood. Nehru had to ask Rossellini to leave. Soon after, Bergman and Rossellini separated.

In 1971, Rice University in Houston, Texas, invited Rossellini to help establish a Media Center. In 1973, he was invited to teach at YALE University in New Haven, CT, where he taught a course entitled "The Essential Image." Roberto Rossellini died of a heart attack aged 71 in 1977.