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    • Il Generale Della Rovere (1959) | The Criterion Collection
      • Roberto Rossellini’s gripping drama, a rare box-office breakthrough for the legendary neorealist, is further evidence of the compassionate artistry of one of cinema’s most important voices.
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  2. Mar 11, 2015 · Il generale Della Rovere is the fulcrum that balances the in-the-street neorealism of Rossellini’s films from the forties and fifties with the historical collages of his films of the sixties and seventies. Few filmmakers have exhibited this range of approaches.

  3. Jan 12, 2010 · Summary. In a 1970 interview, Rossellini rejected dramatization and the search for effects in the cinema as falsifications of reality. He also remarked that Il generale Delia Rovere was a “constructed film, a professional film, and I do not make professional films, only films that we can call experimental.”

  4. May 25, 2011 · A couple weekends ago, as part of my ongoing Criterion Reflections blogging project, I watched Il Generale Della Rovere, a 1959 film directed by Roberto Rossellini that marked one of the commercial and critical high points of his career, yielding his biggest box office results since his breakthrough Rome Open City and major festival hardware ...

  5. General Della Rovere (Italian: Il generale Della Rovere) is a 1959 Italian–French drama film directed by Roberto Rossellini. The film is based on a story by Indro Montanelli which was in turn based on a true story.

  6. Mar 30, 2009 · Roberto Rossellini’s Il Generale Della Rovere was the filmmaker’s only post-Open City film to be critically and commercially successful upon its initial release, a fact that reportedly irritated the him to no end. To reviewers, the picture signaled a welcome return to the settings and themes of Rossellini’s neorealist origins after years ...

  7. Mar 30, 2009 · Unsurprisingly, Roberto Rossellini does a marvelous job at recreating war-torn Italy for Il Generale Della Rovere. From Bardone's cramped apartment, packed full with the accoutrements of a stage show (the charlatan's tools), to the bombed-out cityscapes, the environment is haunting and real.

  8. Il generale Della Rovere: Rediscovering Roberto Rossellini. More than thirty years after his death in 1977, Roberto Rossellini is remembered by your average film buff as the father of Italian neo­realism (Rome, Open City, 1945; Paisan, 1946; Germany Year Zero, 1948) and of actress and model Isabella Rosselli….