Roberto Rossellini and Italian Neorealism
January 10 to February 8 2007
Austrian Film Museum www.filmmuseum.at

The Film Museum's retrospective presents the "cinema of poverty", which portrayed the whole abundance of human experience. The Italian Neorealism can be seen as a symbolic rebirth of cinema after World War II and established a new film tradition.

The famous directors of Neorealism are represented with several films: Vittorio De Sica; Luchino Visconti (who set an early milestone in 1943 with Ossessione); the frequently underrated Giuseppe De Santis (Riso amaro, Roma ore 11); Rossellini's onetime assistant and co-author Federico Fellini; Michelangelo Antonioni, who was searching for his own new approach to modern cinema in the 1950s, parallel to Rossellini; and a special focus on the rich oeuvre of Roberto Rossellini. next>>>

photo: "Riso amaro" Giuseppe De Santis, 1949