30° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
FESTA MOBILE/CLASSICS
UNA VOCE UMANA (episodio de L'AMORE)
by Roberto Rossellini
Country: Italy
Year: 1948
Duration: 30'
A woman, alone in her bedroom, is talking on the phone. On the other end is a man; he is breaking up with her, but she still loves him. The woman talks, remembers, rambles, begs; the conversation is constantly interrupted, but she starts it over again, always talking to a silent interlocutor, always shamelessly revealing the desperation in her voice and in her soul. This piece is one of the segments composing the movie Ways of Love, which also includes The Miracle by Federico Fellini.
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).
Declaration
film director
“A person is lifted bodily and placed under a microscope to be thoroughly observed. It is the study of the human face, penetrating within its inmost folds.” (Roberto Rossellini)
“Anna Magnani revealed the pain to me. She was incredibly nervous when we were filming The Human Voice with Rossellini, she would destroy anything at hand; but she was always magnificently sincere in playing the part of the woman in love, with her ruffled hair, her eyes filled with tears, her nose constantly running. And then there’s Rossellini, an extraordinary man.” (Jean Cocteau)
Cast
& Credits
regia, produttore/director, producer Roberto Rossellini
soggetto/story dalla pièce La voce umana di/from the play La voix humaine by Jean Cocteau
sceneggiatura/screenplay Roberto Rossellini, Anna Benevuti fotografia/cinematography Robert Juillard, Otello Martelli
montaggio/film editing Eraldo Da Roma
scenografia/production design Christian Bérard
musica/music Renzo Rossellini
suono/sound Kurt Doubrowsky
interprete/cast Anna Magnani
produzione/production Tevere Film
distribuzione/distribution Cineteca di Bologna
soggetto/story dalla pièce La voce umana di/from the play La voix humaine by Jean Cocteau
sceneggiatura/screenplay Roberto Rossellini, Anna Benevuti fotografia/cinematography Robert Juillard, Otello Martelli
montaggio/film editing Eraldo Da Roma
scenografia/production design Christian Bérard
musica/music Renzo Rossellini
suono/sound Kurt Doubrowsky
interprete/cast Anna Magnani
produzione/production Tevere Film
distribuzione/distribution Cineteca di Bologna
