Francesco Rosi
Also Known As: Franco Rosi, Франческо Рози
Biography: Francesco Rosi (15 November 1922 – 10 January 2015) was an Italian film director. His film The Mattei Affair won the Palme d'Or at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival. Rosi's films, especially those of the 1960s and 1970s, often appeared to have political messages. While the topics for his later films became less politically oriented and more angled toward literature, he continued to direct until 1997, his last film being the Primo Levi book adaptation The Truce. Description above from the Wikipedia article Francesco Rosi, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Naples, Campania, Italy
Birthday: November 15, 1922
Deathday: January 10, 2015
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Gender: Male
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Diario senza date
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1995-09-01
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Cinéma et Réalité
Overview: In this documentary, giants of italian cinema such as Rossellini, De Sica, Fellini and Zavattini talk about the importance of cinema after WW2, and about huge moments of social rebellion. This movie gives the floor to the creators of italian neorealism.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Gian Luigi Rondi - Vita, cinema, passione
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2014-09-02
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Francesco Rosi - Momente der Wahrheit
Overview: Documentary about the Italian director Francesco Rosi.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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Rosi About Eboli
Overview: An exceptional documentary filmed in 1978 by Swedish directors Björn Blixt and Peter Englesson showing the behind-the-scenes of the film Christ Stopped at Eboli (1979) by Francesco Rosi.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2022-11-16
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Cinema Italiano: Moments of Truth
Overview: Documentary about Italian cinema.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2014-06-17
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Salvatore Giuliano
Overview: Sicilian bandit Salvatore Giuliano's bullet-riddled corpse is found facedown in a courtyard in Castelvetrano, a handgun and rifle by his side. Local and international press descend upon the scene, hoping to crack open the true story behind the death of this young man, who, at the age of twenty-seven, had already become Italy’s most wanted criminal and celebrated hero.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-03-01
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Dove Sta Zaza?
Overview: The film is set in Naples. Two doubles, an American and a Neapolitan, alternate visiting Zaza, the maid of a magazine company, deceived by their resemblance.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1947-11-28
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Neapolitan Diary
Overview: A screening of the 30 year old Hands Over The City at the School of Architecture in Naples is the occasion for a debate among youth, historians, politicos, industrialists, environmentalists.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1992-06-06
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The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth
Overview: A documentary looking at the life and films of Francesco Rosi.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2004-06-17
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Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2010-09-01
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Luchino Visconti: Between Truth and Passion
Overview: Forty years after his death, this documentary pays tribute to one of the major filmmakers of Italian cinema, to an original work that continues to inspire today's cinema. Coming from one of the greatest families of the Italian aristocracy, he could have been a rich and cultured man, living in opulence and idleness, but Luchino wanted a different destiny. This is the story that director Elisabeth Kapnist and Christian Dumais-Lvowski wanted to tell. Count Visconti di Modrone wears the clothes of a legend that he never stopped shaping throughout his life. This documentary reconstructs the fabric of a brilliant life, dedicated to art; theater, opera, and cinema. This artistic work is also that of a committed man, who was a fellow traveler of the Communist Party, and who resisted fascism.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-11-15
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Luchino Visconti
Overview: A chronological look at the creative life of Luchino Visconti (1906-1976). It examines his theatricality, role in the neorealist movement, use of melodrama, and relation to decadence. It touches on the impact of a fabulously wealthy childhood, his writing for "Cinema," his politics, his work with Renoir, his appreciation of Thomas Mann, and his deep knowledge of literature and the arts. Visconti moves constantly between film and the theater, staging plays provocatively, working with Maria Callas at La Scala, and shooting films in theaters. Clips from his films and interviews with actors, crew members, and critics provide details for this portrait of creativity.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1999-09-06
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Franco Cristaldi e il suo cinema Paradiso
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 2009-09-16
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Water and Sugar: Carlo Di Palma, the Colours of Life
Overview: An account of the life and work of the legendary cinematographer and director Carlo Di Palma (1925-2004) and an emotional journey into the greatest moments of cinema, from the Italian neorealism to the masterpieces of Woody Allen, commented by prestigious figures of world cinema.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2016-09-11
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A Dream of Sicily
Overview: A 52-minute documentary profile of Giuseppe Tornatore featuring interviews with director and extracts from his early home movies as well as interviews with director Francesco Rosi and painter Peppino Ducato, set to music by the legendary Ennio Morricone.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-06-09
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Born in the U.S.E. - Nato negli Stati Uniti d'Europa
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2015-03-01
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The Mattei Affair
Overview: Enrico Mattei helped change Italy’s future, first as freedom-fighter against the Nazis, then as an investor in methane gas through a public company, A.G.I.P., and ultimately as the head of ENI, a state body formed for the development of oil resources. On October 27, 1962, he died when his private airplane crashed during a flight to Milan. Officially, it is declared an accident, but many journalists explore other plausible reasons for Mattei's untimely death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-01-26
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Sophia: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
Overview: Documentary exploring the formidable life and career of Italian film star Sophia Loren. With interviews with the actress herself, as well as thoughts from colleagues and admirers, including Woody Allen.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2007-10-21
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Investigation of a Citizen Named Volonté
Overview: Documentary on actor Gian Maria Volonté
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2004-01-12
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Luchino Visconti: Life as in a Novel
Overview: A documentary about film director Luchino Visconti
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2008-12-31
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Filmmakers in Action
Overview: What is the state of cinema and what being a filmmaker means? What are the measures taken to protect authors' copyright? What is their legal status in different countries? (Sequel to “Filmmakers vs. Tycoons.”)
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ca
Release Date: 2006-09-15
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L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2010-09-07
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Citizen Rosi
Overview: The narrative wanders through Rosi’s films, not in the order they were shot but following the chronology of the historical facts they deal with. The documentary therefore not only narrates Rosi’s work, but also portrays half a century of Italian history.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2019-11-18
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Reflections on a Political Cinema
Overview: This documentary addresses the challenges facing the Italian film industry in 1978 by focusing on the television productions of Francesco Rosi's CHRIST STOPPED AT EBOLI (1979) and Elio Petri's LE MANI SPORCHE (1978)
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-07-05
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Sodankylä Forever
Overview: The Midnight Sun Film Festival is held every June in the Finnish village of Sodankylä beyond the arctic circle — where the sun never sets. Founded by Aki and Mika Kaurismäki along with Anssi Mänttäri and Peter von Bagh in 1985, the festival has played host to an international who’s who of directors and each day begins with a two-hour discussion. To mark the festival’s silver anniversary, festival director Peter von Bagh edited together highlights from these dialogues to create an epic four-part choral history of cinema drawn from the anecdotes, insights, and wisdom of his all-star cast: Coppola, Fuller, Forman, Chabrol, Corman, Demy, Kieslowski, Kiarostami, Varda, Oliveira, Erice, Rouch, Gilliam, Jancso — and 64 more. Ranging across innumerable topics (war, censorship, movie stars, formative influences, America, neorealism) these voices, many now passed away, engage in a personal dialogue across the years that’s by turns charming, profound, hilarious and moving.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2010-08-05
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Red Chairs - Parma and the Cinema
Overview: The relations between Parma and cinema were so strong for almost the whole of the twentieth century that this city became an early laboratory of ideas and theories on cinema and a set chosen by some of the greatest Italian authors and beyond. Furthermore, a considerable number of directors, actors, screenwriters and set designers were born in Parma who have made their way internationally, testifying to the fact that in this small city in Northern Italy there was a decidedly cinematic air. Red armchairs takes up the thread of this story, wondering why, unique among the Italian provincial cities, Parma has given so much to the cinema, accompanying the viewer on a journey backwards that from the first projections of the Lumière cinema reaches the ultramodern experience of new multiplexes. During this journey we will meet the characters who created the conditions for this diffusion of cinematographic culture in Parma.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2014-07-24
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Good Morning, the Wind Blows
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2020-12-10
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