• Birth Name: Roberto Gastone Zeffiro Rossellini
  • Birth Place: Rome, Italy
  • Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 05/08/1906, Taurus
  • Date of Death: 06/03/1977
  • Profession: Director; writer; producer
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Roberto Rossellini Fast Facts:
  • Got his initial break making fascist propaganda films during the reign of Benito Mussolini.
  • Early films like Rome, Open City made him a pioneer of the Italian Neo-realism movement.
  • Rome, Open City; Paisan; and Germany Year Zero constitute his famous "War Trilogy."
  • Francois Truffaut wrote in a 1963 article that Rossellini was the "father of the French New Wave."
  • Served as President of the Cannes Film Festival jury in 1977, which ended just days before he suffered a fatal heart attack.
  • Roberto Rossellini Relationships:
  • Assia Noris - Ex-wife
  • Sonali Das Gupta - Wife
  • Ingrid Bergman - Ex-wife
  • Isabella Rossellini - Daughter
  • Renzo Rossellini - Brother
  • Angiolo Giuseppe Rossellini - Father
  • Elettra Rossellini - Mother
  • Marcella De Marchis - Ex-wife
  • Renzo Rosselini - Son
  • Gil Rossellini - Son
  • Marco Romano Rossellini - Son
  • Roberto Ingmar Rossellini - Son
  • Ingrid Rossellini - Daughter
  • Raffaella - Daughter
  • Roberto Rossellini Awards:
  • 1949 Oscar: Best Writing (Story and Screenplay) - Nominee
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