FILM DIRECTOR

Roberto Rossellini

1906 - 1977

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Roberto Gastone Zeffiro Rossellini (8 May 1906 – 3 June 1977) 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), Journey to Italy (1954), Fear (1954) and Joan of Arc at the Stake (1954). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Roberto Rossellini is the 45th most popular film director (up from 47th in 2019), the 530th most popular biography from Italy (down from 454th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Italian Film Director.

Roberto Rossellini is most famous for his neorealist films, which were a reaction to the artificiality of the Hollywood studio system.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Roberto Rossellini ranks 45 out of 2,041. Before him are James Cameron, Krzysztof Kieślowski, John Ford, Isao Takahata, Tinto Brass, and Tim Burton. After him are Ken Loach, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Andrzej Wajda, Robert Zemeckis, George Miller, and Oliver Stone.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Roberto Rossellini ranks 26. Before him are Billy Wilder, Henri Charrière, Vladimir Prelog, Ernst Ruska, Albert Hofmann, and Victor Vasarely. After him are Hans Bethe, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Sayyid Qutb, Giuseppe Farina, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Ilse Koch. Among people deceased in 1977, Roberto Rossellini ranks 15. Before him are Clementine Churchill, Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, Ludwig Erhard, René Goscinny, Lee Miller, and Anthony Eden. After him are Makarios III, Jacques Prévert, Ernst Bloch, Aleksandr Vasilevsky, Kurt Schuschnigg, and Alexey Stakhanov.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Roberto Rossellini ranks 530 out of 5,161. Before him are Pope Miltiades (250), Riccardo Giacconi (1931), John Cabot (1450), Joanna I of Naples (1326), Aurelia Cotta (-120), and Alphonsus Liguori (1696). After him are Giovanni Schiaparelli (1835), Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1549), Tarcisio Bertone (1934), Peter Damian (1007), Trebonianus Gallus (206), and Januarius (272).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Italy

Among film directors born in Italy, Roberto Rossellini ranks 9. Before him are Bernardo Bertolucci (1941), Luchino Visconti (1906), Sergio Leone (1929), Michelangelo Antonioni (1912), Vittorio De Sica (1901), and Tinto Brass (1933). After him are Frank Capra (1897), Franco Zeffirelli (1923), Dario Argento (1940), Giuseppe Tornatore (1956), Ettore Scola (1931), and Sergio Corbucci (1926).

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