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Filmmaker · Italy

Roberto Rossellini

Died in 1977

Roberto Rossellini was born in Rome in 1906, the son of a well-off architect and builder. He began in the technical trades of cinema, sound effects, dubbing and editing, made short films and directed his first feature film in 1941. He married the Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman in 1950. From the 1960s he devoted himself mainly to educational films for television. He chaired the jury of the Cannes Film Festival in 1977 and died in Rome on 3 June of the same year.

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