Screening of Roberto Rossellini's masterpiece, with Ingrid Bergman, Mario Vitale, Renzo Cesana.
"Rediscovering Neorealism"
"Rediscovering Neorealism"STROMBOLI (1950)Screening of Roberto Rossellini's masterpiece, with Ingrid Bergman, Mario Vitale, Renzo Cesana.Bergman plays Karin, a displaced Lithuanian in Italy, who escapes the internment camp by marrying an Italian POW fisherman (Mario Vitale), whom she met in the camp on the other side of the barbed wire. He promises her a great life in his home island of Stromboli. She soon discovers that his home island is very harsh and barren, not at all what she expected and the people, very traditional and conservative show hostility & disdain towards this strange, foreign woman.Adding to her difficulties, Karin speaks little Italian. She becomes increasingly despondent and eventually wants to escape the volcano island. The film also features documentary-like segments about fishing and an actual evacuation of the town after an eruption of the volcano. Most villagers are played by actual people from the island, as is typical of neo-realism. (Wikipedia)In Italian, with English subtitles.Monday, May 18th, 2015, at 18:30Italian Cultural Instituterehov Meir Rutberg 12 – HaifaFREE ADMISSION