Roberto Rossellini

have a broader audience. Roberto Benigni’s use of comedy is effective in portraying the Holocaust, while other work from writers about about the Holocaust are grim, Benigni is about comedy. The main character Guido uses humor to lighten situation that the audience knows is serious. The director/actor Roberto Benigni uses the character…

A. Roberto Clemente lived in a poor community of Purto Rico. He loved playing baseball in the fields. He came to America to play baseball. He could hit the ball like no other players and the fans loved him. He never forgot where he played baseball as a child. *B. Roberto Clemente grew up in Purto Rico playing baseball. He was invited to play for Pittburgh Pirates in America. He was a successful baseball player and the fans loved him. He was killed suddenly in a plane crash but stil…

The film La Vita è Bella, directed by Roberto Benigni is about a man who goes by the name of Guido, falling in love with Dora, a Christian woman whom he keeps bumping into on the streets. Guido, the main character takes a horrendous event, the Holocaust and expresses the story in a comical way. Before taken into the concentration camps, Guido’s life was filled with happiness and moments of enjoyment. After being taken in, Guido’s life is immediately recognized as agony. As the film progresses,…

is home to a man named Roberto Clemente, who lived there for eighteen years. After high school, he said goodbye to this town and moved on to the United States. In the US Roberto Clemente signed with the Brooklyn Dodgers, who gave him a 10,000 dollar signing bonus, which was very high. After some technicalities, the Dodgers lost Roberto Clemente to the Pittsburgh Pirates, who finished in last place the previous season. Roberto Clemente was a very successful player. Roberto Clemente racked up two…

Roberto Alomar grew up around the sport of baseball, mainly because of his father Sandy Sr.’s success in Major League Baseball. Roberto Alomar was born on February 5th, 1968 in Ponce, Puerto Rico. However, he was raised in Salinas, Puerto Rico by his mother, Maria Alomar because his father played for fifteen different major league teams during his career. The only times Roberto would see his father was when he visited Sany Sr. in the summer. During the summer, Roberto would get to watch his…

We young folks in Cusco were very much concerned with poetry as much as Bolano’s visceral realists did in Mexico City but unlike them, Octavio Paz was not our enemy. We loved discussing the labyrinth of solitude but It was the poetry of Cesar Vallejo, Arguedas, Garcilazo that matter to us. It reflected our Andean traits. Cusquenhos are different from coastal Peruvians. We are because of our cultural traits. We are visual, silent, introverts, stoic and very much good listeners and enjoy jokes…

THE PLACE OF ANTONIONI IN NEO-REALISM ITALIAN CINEMA Introduction The Italian neorealism is a film movement characterized by stories set amongst the poor and working class, filmed on location, frequently using nonprofessional actors for secondary and sometimes primary roles which lasted from about 1943 to 1952. According to Piepergerdes (2007) assert that the “emerging out of the ashes of Fascism, Italian Neorealist films were inexorably tied to the social, political, and economic…

Pride of Providing Gender inequality is an unfortunate and all too common aspect of society in many portions of the world. This can range from unequal pay and hiring, to engrained cultural beliefs about the roles of men and women in a given culture. These biases have often been explored through the use of literature which have provided many examples of the effects they can have on ones role in a relationship. From close examination of these works it can be established that deviation from these…

For a postwar Italian society, reconciliation with their wartime atrocities required the reconstruction of collective memory. Popular media, such as films and songs, were essential in accomplishing this seemingly gargantuan task. At the heart of Roberto Rossellini’s Rome Open City, for example, is the active reconstruction of memory. As a work of fiction, Rome Open City honors the resistance against the Nazi occupation of Rome. Yet, as a work which provides insight into the emotional landscape…

Rome, Open City is a film directed by Roberto Rossellini about the plight of the citizens of Rome during Nazi occupation in 1944. The film starts with a leader of an underground Italian communist leader, Giorgio Manfredi (Marcelo Pagliero), escaping from the Nazi Gestapo atop of the rooftops of Rome. After escaping, Giorgio Manfredi meets a woman named Pina (Anna Magnani) who is the fiancé of another communist party member. Through Pina and her son, Giorgio Manfredi gets in contact with Don…