Renato robertino rossellini biography

Italian film producer

Renzo Rossellini (born 24 August 1941), also called Rossellini Jr., is an Italian film producer. He is the second son of costume designer Marcella de Marchis and film director Roberto Rossellini. Since 1964, he has produced 64 films.

From 1977 to 1983 he was President of Gaumont Italy and was instrumental in the modernization of Italian film theaters, introducing multiplex structures. In 1975 he co-founded Radio Città Futura in Rome, one of the first "free" – not state-owned – radio stations in Italy. In 1981, one year after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, he co-founded Radio Free Kabul. He lives in Rome and Los Angeles.

Learning from his father

In 1958, Renzo Rossellini graduated from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia with a degree in Visual Arts. After graduation, he began working in the film industry, while studying History and Philosophy at the Sorbonne University in Paris, albeit without graduating. In those years, he had a love story with Katherine L. O'Brien. From their relationship, their son Alessandro is born.

From 1959 to 1977, Renzo worked with his father Roberto, as assistant director, second unit director and producer. Together, they made a number of movies and TV mini-series, mainly documentaries for Italian state television RAI. He then married Patrizia Mannajuolo, his first wife.

In 1962, he directed a segment of the film Love at Twenty, which gets nominated at the 12th Berlin International Film Festival.

Il the Sixties, with his San Diego Film Company, he filmed and produced newsreels on the birth of several national liberation movements, ranging from the Algerian National Liberation Front to the Palestine Liberation Organization, and the Mozambican Liberation Front. In 1966, while in Cuba, he took part to the foundation of Tricontinental, the organization built by Ernesto "Che" Guevara to promote national li

Roberto Gastone Zeffiro Rossellini (8 May 1906 – 3 June 1977) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. Rossellini was one of the directors of the Italian neorealist cinema, contributing films such as Roma città aperta (Rome, Open City 1945) to the movement.

Rossellini was born in Rome. His mother, Elettra (née Bellan), was a housewife, and his father, Angiolo Giuseppe “Beppino” Rossellini, owned a construction firm. His mother was of part French descent, from immigrants who had arrived in Italy during the Napoleonic Wars. He lived on the Via Ludovisi, where Benito Mussolini had his first Roman hotel in 1922 when Fascism obtained power in Italy.

Rossellini’s father built the first cinema in Rome, and later on also the famous “Barberini’s”, granting his son an unlimited free pass; the young Rossellini started frequenting the cinema at an early age. When his father died, he worked as a soundmaker for films and for a certain time he experienced all the accessory jobs related to the creation of a film, gaining competence in each field. Rossellini had a brother, Renzo, who later scored many of his films.

On 26 September 1936, he married Marcella De Marchis (17 January 1916, Rome – 25 February 2009, Sarteano), a costume designer. This was after a quick annulment from Assia Noris, a Russian actress who worked in Italian films. De Marchis and Rossellini had two sons: Marco Romano (born 3 July 1937 and died of appendicitis in 1946), and Renzo. Rossellini and De Marchis separated in 1950 (and eventually divorced). Although he wasn’t personally religious, he had a strong interest in Christian values in the contemporary world; he loved the Church’s ethical teaching, and was enchanted by religious sentiment—things which he saw as being neglected in the materialist world.

Career

In 1937, Rossellini made his first documentary, Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune. After this essay, he was called to assist Goff

Italian film director (1906–1977)

Roberto Gastone Zeffiro Rossellini (8 May 1906 – 3 June 1977) was an Italian film director, screenwriter and producer. He was one of the most prominent directors of the Italian neorealist cinema, contributing to the movement with films such as Rome, Open City (1945), Paisan (1946), and Germany, Year Zero (1948). He is also known for his films starring Ingrid Bergman, Stromboli (1950), Europe '51 (1952), Journey to Italy (1954), Fear (1954) and Joan of Arc at the Stake (1954).

Biography

Early life

Rossellini was born in Rome. His mother, Elettra (née Bellan), was a housewife born in Rovigo, Veneto, and his father, Angiolo Giuseppe "Peppino" Rossellini, who owned a construction firm, was born in Rome from a family originally from Pisa, Tuscany. His mother was of partial French descent, from immigrants who had arrived in Italy during the Napoleonic Wars. He lived on the Via Ludovisi, where Benito Mussolini had his first Roman hotel in 1922 when Fascism obtained power in Italy.

Rossellini's father built the first cinema in Rome, the "Barberini", a theatre where movies could be

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Date of Birth 8 May 1906, Rome, Italy Date of Death 3 June 1977, Rome, Italy (heart attack) Height 5' 10" (1.78 m) Spouse Sonali Senroy DasGupta (1957 - 1977) (his death) 1 child Ingrid Bergman (24 May 1950 - 7 November 1957) (divorced) 3 children Marcella De Marchis (1936 - 1950) (divorced) 2 children Assia Noris (1934 - 1936) (annulled) Trivia Born at 12:50pm-CET. Father of Isabella Rossellini. Brother of Renzo Rossellini. Father of Renzo Rossellini. Uncle of Franco Rossellini. Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume One, 1890-1945". Pages 959-971. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1987. President of jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1977. He and Ingrid Bergman made 6 movies together: Europa '51 (1952), Giovanna d'Arco al rogo (1954), La paura (1954), Siamo donne (1953), Stromboli (1950) and Viaggio in Italia (1954) Is portrayed by Massimo Ghini in Celluloide (1995). His children are: Renzo (b. August 24, 1941) and Marco (b. July 3, 1937 d. August 14, 1946 of peritonitis) with Marcella de Marchis; Renato Roberto Giusto Giuseppe "Robertino" "Robin" (b. February 2, 1950), Isabella Fiorella Elettra Giovanna (b. June 18, 1952), and Isotta Ingrid Frieda Giuliana (b. June 18, 1952) with Ingrid Bergman; Gil (b. October 23, 1956 d. October 3, 2008 from a bacterial infection) and Raffaella (b. 1958) with Sonali Das Gupta. His son Gil was originally named Arjun Das Gupta. His name was changed to Gil Rossellini after his father adopted him. Invented a remote control zoom allowing himself to