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Francesco Giullare Di Dio (1950)
Director: Roberto Rossellini
Starring: Aldo Fabrizi, Arabella Lemaitre
A.k.a. "Francis, God's Jester". Roberto Rossellini and co-writer Federico Fellini lovingly render the very spirit of Franciscan teaching in this extr... Read more
Journey in Italy (1954)
Director: Roberto Rossellini
Starring: Ingrid Bergman, George Sanders, Maria Mauban, Paul Muller
A graceful depiction of an eroding marriage that reaches its crisis as the couple holiday in Southern Italy. Roberto Rossellini directed his then-wif... Read more
Dov'e la Liberta...? ( Where is Freedom ? ) (1953)
7/10
Director: Roberto Rossellini
Starring: Toto
Italy's favourite comic son, Toto, stars as Salvatore Loicano, a convict who has just been released from prison after 22 years behind bars. The former... Read more
Germany, Year Zero (1947)
7.9/10
Director: Roberto Rossellini
Starring: Edmund Moeschke, Werner Pittschau, Barbara Hintz
With a lineup of non-professional actors and made in the neo-realist style, this lyrical view of Germany in the immediate postwar period has some magn... Read more
Open City ( aka Rome, Open City ) (1945)
6.4/10
Director: Roberto Rossellini
Starring: Anna Magnani, Aldo Fabrizi, Marcello Pagliero
Aka "Roma, Citta Aperta". A superb film based on the true story of Don Morosi, a priest and resistance worker shot by the Germans in wartime Rome. Fil... Read more
The Flowers Of St. Francis (Francesco, giullare di Dio) (1950)
7.5/10
Director: Roberto Rossellini
Starring: Aldo Fabrizi
A series of vignettes depicting the lives of the original Franciscan monks, including their leader and the bumbling Ginepro. Read more