| Stromboli | |
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| Directed by | Roberto Rossellini |
| Produced by | Roberto Rossellini |
| Written by | Story: Roberto Rossellini Sergio Amidei Art Cohn Roberto Rossellini Gian Paolo Callegari Renzo Cesana |
| Starring | Ingrid Bergman Mario Vitale |
| Music by | Renzo Rossellini |
| Cinematography | Otello Martelli |
| Editing by | Jolanda Benvenuti Roland Gross Alfred L. Roberto Rossellini ( May 8 1906 – June 3 1977) was an Italian Film director. Art Cohn ( April 5, 1909 in New York New York - March 22, 1958) was an American Sportswriter, Screenwriter Renzo Cesana born 30 October 1907 in Rome died 8 November 1970 in Hollywood California of Lung cancer was an (ˈbærjman in Swedish but usually ˈbɝgmən in English (August 29 1915 &ndash August 29 1982 was a Swedish three-time Academy Award -winning and two-time Emmy Werker |
| Distributed by | Connoisseur Video RKO Radio Pictures |
| Release date(s) | United States: February 15, 1950 Italy: October 8, 1950 |
| Running time | 107 minutes (U. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Events 590 - Khosrau II is crowned as king of Persia 1637 - Ferdinand III becomes Holy Roman Emperor Year 1950 ( MCML) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest Events 314 - Roman Emperor Licinius is defeated by his colleague Constantine I at the Battle of Cibalae, and loses Year 1950 ( MCML) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. S. A. cut: 81 min. ) |
| Country | Italy United States |
| Language | Italian |
| Budget | $1,000,000 (estimated) |
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Stromboli (also known as: Stromboli, terra di dio) (1950) is an Italian and American film directed by Roberto Rossellini and featuring Ingrid Bergman. Italian ( or lingua italiana) is a Romance language spoken by about 63 million people as a First language, primarily in Italy. The year 1950 in film involved some significant events Events February 15 - Walt Disney Studios Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Roberto Rossellini ( May 8 1906 – June 3 1977) was an Italian Film director. (ˈbærjman in Swedish but usually ˈbɝgmən in English (August 29 1915 &ndash August 29 1982 was a Swedish three-time Academy Award -winning and two-time Emmy The drama is considered a classic example of Italian neorealism. Italian neorealism is a style of film characterized by stories set amongst the poor and Working class, filmed on location frequently using nonprofessional Actors [1]
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Background
The film is the result of a famous letter from Ingrid Bergman to Roberto Rossellini, in which she wrote she admired his work, and she wanted to make a movie with him. However, the film is best remembered for the affair between Rossellini and Bergman that occurred during this time, as well as the resultant child out of wedlock. In fact, the affair caused such a scandal in the United States that Bergman was denounced on the floor of the US Senate by Colorado Senator Edwin C. Johnson. Edwin Carl Johnson ( January 1, 1884 May 30, 1970) was a Democratic Party politician from the state of Colorado. Furthermore, her Hollywood career was halted for a number of years, until her Oscar-winning performance in Anastasia. "The Oscar" redirects here for the film see The Oscar (film. Anastasia is a 1956 20th Century Fox Historical drama film directed by Anatole Litvak.
Plot
Bergman plays Karin, a displaced Lithuanian in Italy, who escapes the internment camp by marrying an Italian POW fisherman (Mario Vitale), whom she met in the camp on the other side of the barbed wire.
She soon discovers that his home island of Stromboli is very harsh and barren, and the people traditional and conservative. Stromboli (Strongyle is a small island in the Tyrrhenian Sea, off the north coast of Sicily, containing one of the three active volcanoes in Italy They act with hostility towards this strange, foreign woman.
Karin speaks little Italian adding to her difficulties. Karin becomes increasingly despondent and eventually she wants to escape the volcano island.
The film also features documentary-like segments about fishing and an actual evacuation of the town after an eruption of the volcano. Documentary film is a broad category of visual expression that is based on the attempt in one fashion or another to " Document " reality Most villagers are played by actual people from the island, as is typical of neo-realism.
Cast
- Ingrid Bergman as Karin
- Mario Vitale as Antonio
- Renzo Cesana as The Priest
- Mario Sponzo as The man from the lighthouse
- Gaetano Famularo as Man with guitar
Critical reception
The staff at Variety magazine gave the film a mixed review. Variety is a weekly entertainment trade newspaper founded in New York in 1905 by Sime Silverman They wrote, "Director Roberto Rossellini purportedly denied responsibility for the film, claiming the American version was cut by RKO beyond recognition. Cut or not cut, the film reflects no credit on him. Given elementary-school dialog to recite and impossible scenes to act, Ingrid Bergman's never able to make the lines real nor the emotion sufficiently motivated to seem more than an exercise. . . The only visible touch of the famed Italian director is in the hard photography, which adds to the realistic, documentary effect of life on the rocky, lava-blanketed island. Rossellini's penchant for realism, however, does not extend to Bergman. She's always fresh, clean and well-groomed. "[2]
In an expansive analysis of the film, critic Fred Camper wrote of the drama, "Like many of cinema's masterpieces, Stromboli is fully explained only in a final scene that brings into harmony the protagonist's state of mind and the imagery. This structure. . . suggests a belief in the transformative power of revelation. Forced to drop her suitcase (itself far more modest than the trunks she arrived with) as she ascends the volcano, Karin is stripped of her pride and reduced — or elevated — to the condition of a crying child, a kind of first human being who, divested of the trappings of self, must learn to see and speak again from a personal "year zero" (to borrow from another Rossellini film title). "[3]
References
Footnotes
- ^ Stromboli at the Internet Movie Database.
- ^ Variety. Film review, February 15, 1950. Events 590 - Khosrau II is crowned as king of Persia 1637 - Ferdinand III becomes Holy Roman Emperor Year 1950 ( MCML) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Last accessed: December 31, 2007. Events 406 – Vandals, Alans and Suebians cross the Rhine, beginning an invasion of Gallia. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century.
- ^ Camper, Fred. Chicago Reader, film analysis and review, "Volcano Girl," 2000. The Chicago Reader is an Alternative newsweekly in Chicago, Illinois, USA Last accessed: December 31, 2007.
External links
- Stromboli at the Internet Movie Database
- Stromboli at Allmovie
- Stromboli at the TCM Movie Database
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