Stromboli, terra di Dio
Film Information:
Year:
1950
Stromboli, terra di Dio
Países:
Director:
Color:
B&W
Format:
35 mm
Duration:
106 min
Cast:
- Ingrid Bergman, Mario Vitale, Renzo Cesana, Mario Sponzo
Production:
- GUIÓN: Roberto Rossellini, Art Cohn, Sergio Amidei, G.P. Callegari,
- Renzo Cesana
- FOTOGRAFÍA: Otello Martelli
- MONTAJE: Jolanda Benvenuti, Roland Gross
- PRODUCCIÓN: Roberto Rossellini
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Synopsis
The first of the three films the Italian filmmaker did with Ingrid Bergman –who would become his wife soon after– raised its share of controversy among the fundamentalists of Neorealism. Bergman was a Hollywood star, while Rossellini was the creator of the most significant films of that movement that seemed to go precisely against the star-system (Open City, Paisan and Germany Year Zero). At the same time, the strong religiousness that extends throughout the film through Bergman’s character, as well as the excessive attention the camera gives to her –those intense close ups highlighting her beauty– also upset the Italian post-war left wing, who defended a more realist and objective cinema. The truth is that Stromboli gathers all the features attributed to Neorealism (real settings, local actors, anonymous tragedies) and in fact at times –like in the remarkable tuna fishing scene– comes close to its most radical exponent: Luchino Visconti’s La terra trema.
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