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Francesco, giullare di Dio The flowers of St. Francis ( Visual )
3 editions published between 2003 and 2005 in Italian and held by 454 libraries worldwide
"In a series of simple and joyous vignettes, director Roberto Rossellini and co-writer Federico Fellini lovingly convey the universal teachings of The People's Saint: humility, faith, and sacrifice. Gorgeously photographed to evoke the medieval paintings of Saint Francis' time, and cast with monks from the Nocera Inferiore Monastery"--Container.

My method : writings and interviews by Roberto Rossellini ( Book )
5 editions published between 1992 and 1995 in English and Italian and held by 312 libraries worldwide

Il Generale Della Rovere ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2009 in Italian and held by 290 libraries worldwide
Film of intrigue and heroism within the Italian underground during the German occupation of Italy. Emanuele Bardone, a petty con man, fleeces his victims by posing as a colonel. Persuaded by the Germans to impersonate a partisan leader they have killed, he assumes the admirable qualities of the heroic officer and the German plan backfires.

Roma, città aperta ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2009 in Italian and held by 170 libraries worldwide
When the Nazis occupied Rome, a brave few fought against it. An underground agent who is cornered by the Germans in a certain quarter of Rome, flees the Germans. In the course of his flight he imperils his resistance friends.

The Fabulous Thirties : Italian cinema 1929-1944 ( Book )
4 editions published in 1979 in English and held by 147 libraries worldwide

Paisà ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2009 in Italian and held by 87 libraries worldwide
Six vignettes follow the Allied invasion from July 1943 to winter 1944, from Sicily north to Venice. Communication is fragile. A woman leads an Allied patrol through a mine field, she dies protecting a G.I. but the Yanks think she killed him. A street urchin steals shoes from a G.I. who tracks him to a shanty town. A G.I. meets a woman the day Rome is liberated, in six months they meet again. A U.S. nurse braves the trip across the Arno into German fire in search of a partisan she loves. Three chaplains, including a Jew, call on a monastery north in the Apennines. Allied soldiers and partisans try to escape capture in the marshes of the Po.

Il mio metodo : scritti e interviste by Roberto Rossellini ( Book )
11 editions published between 1987 and 2006 in Italian and Undetermined and held by 78 libraries worldwide

Deutschland im Jahre Null ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2009 in German and held by 73 libraries worldwide
Edmund, a young boy who lives amid the rubble that is Berlin after World War II, struggles and scrambles to help his family in getting food and barely survive.

La télévision comme utopie by Roberto Rossellini ( Book )
3 editions published in 2001 in French and held by 63 libraries worldwide
C'est après l'échec de Anima nera, en 1962, un film qui annonce pourtant un renouveau de la comédie italienne, que Roberto Rossellini décide d'abandonner le cinéma pour un nouveau mode d'expression : la télévision. Dès lors, il va se faire l'humble rapporteur des faits et gestes du passé, des grands événements et des grandes figures qui ont changé le cours de l'histoire...

Rossellini visto da Rossellini Rossellini seen by Rossellini ( Visual )
4 editions published between 1992 and 1998 in Italian and held by 53 libraries worldwide
Documentary on filmmaker Robert Rossellini, with excerpts from his films and various interviews with Rossellini himself.