Country: Italy
Year: 1953
Duration: 97'
Alexander Joyce, a businessman from London, and his wife Katherine realize that after ten years of living together they have become strangers to each other. They have inherited a villa on the gulf of Naples and decide to go to Italy to escape the anguishing routine of their marital crisis. They are profoundly disturbed by Italy and seem to find confirmation of the wisdom of separating. Egotistical and indifferent to each other, the two follow different paths as they journey through their surroundings, traveling in solitude between the most humble parts of Naples, the excavations in Pompeii and the nearby towns.
Biography
film director
Roberto Rossellini
Roberto Rossellini (Rome, Italy, 1906-1977) began working in cinema during Fascism. During the post-war period, he created neo-realistic masterpieces like Rome Open City (1945), Paisà (1946) and Germany Year Zero (1947). He then made films which studied solitude, alienation and marital crisis – Stromboli (1950), The Greatest Love (1952) and Journey to Italy (1954). His films are backed up by an experimental style and study reality with a subjective outlook. In 1960s he began working in television, dedicating himself to historical and didactic cinema.
FILMOGRAFIA
filmografia essenziale/essential filmography
La nave bianca (1941), Un pilota ritorna (1942), L’uomo della croce (1943), Roma città aperta (1945), Paisà (1946), Germania anno zero (1947), L’amore (ep. Una voce umana, 1948), La macchina ammazzacattivi (1948), Stromboli terra di Dio (1950), Francesco giullare di Dio (1950), Europa 51 (1952), Dov’è la libertà (1953), Viaggio in Italia (1954), Giovanna d’Arco al rogo (1954), La paura (1954), Le psychodrame (1956), India (1958), Il generale Della Rovere (1959), Era notte a Roma (1960), Viva l’Italia (1960), Vanina Vanini (1961), Anima nera (1962), La presa del potere da parte di Luigi XIV (tv, 1966), Atti degli apostoli (tv, 1968), Socrate (tv, 1970), Pascal (tv, 1971), Agostino d’Ippona (tv, 1972), Anno uno (1974), Il Messia (1975).
