Roberto Rossellini

Roberto Rossellini

  • Born: 1906-5-8
  • Height: 5' 10" (1.78 m)
  • Extended Reading
    • Dasia 2022-11-11 02:17:13

      war

      Six stories during World War II. 1. The communication between American soldiers and Italian girls in the absence of language, with a figured out feeling of disgust for war. 2. A black American soldier was drunk by a young boy who stole his clothes and left when the boy saw the boy's living...

    • Ambrose 2022-11-08 03:07:04

      Kracauer's Commentary on "War"

      Roberto Rossellini's Paisan [Italy 1946] surpasses his Open City [Italy 1945] in breadth of vision and significance. Open City was still a drama; Paisan is an epic, comparable only to [The Battleship] Potemkin [USSR 1925, dir. Sergei Eisenstein ], though profoundly different from it.

      This new...

    Paisan quotes

    • British Soldier 1 (episode IV: Firenze): Why should they stop at Florence? They've destroy half of Europe already.

      British Soldier 2 (episode IV: Firenze): The poor fools. The Jerries always put their foot in it. That's why they're going to lose the war.

    • Italian Woman (episode IV: Firenze): Your wife's worried and says to come down.

      Renato (episode IV: Firenze): It's fine up here! I can't budge now. Tell her to send up my helmet.

      Italian Woman (episode IV: Firenze): All right.

      Renato (episode IV: Firenze): [to Harriet and Massimo] Just for the sun, not the bullets. Those I can dodge to the inch. I fought in the *real* war, back in 1918!