#673: ROSSELLINI, Roberto: Stromboli (1950)
3 FILMS BY ROBERTO ROSSELLINI STARRING INGRID BERGMAN {Spine #672}
Stromboli [1950]
Spine #673
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The first collaboration between Roberto Rossellini and Ingrid Bergman is a devastating portrait of a woman's existential crisis, set against the beautiful and forbidding backdrop of a volcanic island. After World War II, a Lithuanian refugee (Bergman) marries a simple Italian fisherman (Mario Vitale) she meets in a prisoner of war camp and accompanies him back to his isolated village on an island off the coast of Sicily. Cut off from the world, she finds herself crumbling emotionally, but she is destined for a dramatic epiphany. Balancing the director's trademark neorealism — exemplified here in a remarkable depiction of the fishermen's lives and work — with deeply felt melodrama, Stromboli is a revelation.
Stromboli
(English-Language Version)
106 minutes
Stromboli Terra Di Dio
(Italian-Language Version)
100 minutes
Black & White
Monaural
1:37:1 aspect ratio
Criterion Release 2013
Director/Writers
Religious theme inspired by Father Félix Morlion, OP.
Story by Roberto Rossellini.
Screenplay by Sergio Amidei, G.P. Callegari, Art Cohn, and Renzo Cesana.
Rossellini was 44 when he directed Stromboli.
The Film
Other Rossellini films in the Collection:
#497: Rome Open City (1945)
#498: Paisan (1946)
#497: Rome Open City (1945)
#498: Paisan (1946)
#675: Journey To Italy (1954)
#463: Il Generale Della Rovere (1959)
#456: The Taking Of Power By Louis XIV (1966)
Eclipse Series 14: Blaise Pascal (1972)
#463: Il Generale Della Rovere (1959)
#456: The Taking Of Power By Louis XIV (1966)
Eclipse Series 14: Blaise Pascal (1972)
The Film
Film Rating (0-60):
The Booklet
Eighty-eight page booklet featuring essays by Richard Brody, Dina Iordanova, Elena Dagrada, Fred Camper, Paul Thomas, an exchange of letters between Rossellini and Bergman, Rossellini.
Commentary
None.
Introduction
By director Rossellini.
Interview
With film critic Adriana Aprà.
Rossellini Under the Volcano
A 1998 documentary that returns to Stromboli fifty years after the making of the film.
Extras Rating (0-40):
60
The ExtrasThe Booklet
Eighty-eight page booklet featuring essays by Richard Brody, Dina Iordanova, Elena Dagrada, Fred Camper, Paul Thomas, an exchange of letters between Rossellini and Bergman, Rossellini.
Commentary
None.
Introduction
By director Rossellini.
Interview
With film critic Adriana Aprà.
Rossellini Under the Volcano
A 1998 documentary that returns to Stromboli fifty years after the making of the film.
Extras Rating (0-40):
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