THE ROSSELLINIS

by Alessandro Rossellini

SYNOPSIS

Roberto Rossellini was a genius of the cinema and a distinctly anti-conformist father. His romances filled the front pages of newspapers around the world, scandalous to the rigid morality of the fifties and generated a numerous, proudly multi-ethnic, and decidedly extended family. Alessandro, the great director’s first grandchild, has had a shaky career as a photographer and a lengthy past as a drug addict. As the first grandchild of a genius, he doesn't feel he measures up of the surname he bears. So, at 55 years of age he decides to make his first film, taking on the Rossellini saga with wit and pressing his relatives into an impossible family therapy in front of the camera.

DETAILS

90 mins

2020

Italy, Latvia

Italian, English

TRAILER

CREDITS

A film by Alessandro Rossellini

Written by Andrea Paolo Massara, Alessandro Rossellini, Dāvis Sīmanis

Produced by Raffaele Brunetti for B&B Film

Co-produced by Uldis Cekulis for VFS Film

A production of B&B Film, VFS Films with Rai Cinema

In association with Istituto Luce Cinecittà

Executive Producers: Philippa Kowarsky, Laura Michalchyshyn

Subject by Alessandro Rossellini, Angelica Grizi

Co-directed by Lorenzo D’amico De Carvalho

Edited by Ilaria de Laurentiis

Cinematography by Valdis Celmiņš, LGC

Original Music by Margherita Vicario, Elisabetta Spada, Ruggero Catania, Luigi De Gaspari, Stefano Brunetti

Sound by Stefano Varini

Sound Design by Marta Billingsley, Piergiorgio De Luca

Producer B&B Film: Maria Teresa Tringali

With the collaboration of Vogue Italia

BIOGRAPHY

DIRECTOR - ALESSANDRO ROSSELLINI

Alessandro Rossellini has collaborated, as stills photographer and production assistant, on the films of Federico Fellini, Martin Scorsese and David Lynch, and has worked as assistant photographer with Bruce Weber, Michel Comte and Marco Glaviano. He has also worked as a freelance photographer for Vogue, Amica and Repubblica, and has directed documentaries on eminent figures in Italian cinema. In 2015 he directed the short documentary "Viva Ingrid!”, which was selected at that year's Venice Film Festival. He has recently collaborated with various organisations that offer treatment for drug dependence.

SELECT FESTIVALS

VENICE CRITICS WEEK 2020〡TAIPEI GOLDEN HORSE 2021〡HOT DOCS 2021〡RAINDANCE 2021〡SHANGHAI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2021〡DOKFEST MUNICH 2021〡VISIONS DU REEL 2021〡DOC NYC 2021〡JERUSALEM FILM FESTIVAL 2021

PRESS

"A thoroughly successful endeavour... Alessandro Rossellini’s work is a rare example of authenticity in the world of film, and the director’s personality shines through with great force."
- Cineuropa

"Compellingly heartfelt"
- Variety

"A fascinating exercise in filmmaking as therapy."
- The Spool

"Part act of psychotherapy, part cinematic biography, 'The Rossellinis' shows what it means to be afflicted by, as the director says, “Rossellini-itus” — in other words, the burden of a monumental legacy."
- IndieWire