Roberto Rossellini

This portrait of fifteenth-century Florence, ruled by the Medici political dynasty, is like a Renaissance painting come to life.

This portrait of fifteenth-century Florence, ruled by the Medici political dynasty, is like a Renaissance painting come to life.

This portrait of fifteenth-century Florence, ruled by the Medici political dynasty, is like a Renaissance painting come to life.

The concluding chapter of Roberto Rossellini’s War Trilogy is the most devastating, a portrait of an obliterated Berlin shown through the eyes of a twelve-year-old boy.

Roberto Rossellini's Cartesius is an intimate, psychological study of obsession and existential crisis.

Roberto Rossellini's ambitious, enormously moving Paisan consists of six episodes set during the liberation of Italy at the end of World War II, taking place across the country, from Sicily to the northern Po Valley.

A series of simple and joyous vignettes lovingly convey the universal teachings of the People’s Saint: humility, compassion, faith, and sacrifice.

Roberto Rossellini's Cartesius is an intimate, psychological study of obsession and existential crisis.

This was Roberto Rossellini’s revelation, a harrowing drama about the Nazi occupation of Rome and the brave few who struggled against it. Rome Open City is a shockingly authentic experience, conceived and directed amid the ruin of World War II.

Roberto Rossellini's life of Blaise Pascal evokes the terror and desperation of the seventeenth century with a rich visual palette and precise, illuminating gesture.

Roberto Rossellini's account of Socrates’ last days.