Rossellini’s biopic of the postwar Christian Democrat leader, Alcide De Gaspari, who was responsible for keeping the Communists out of power in the years that followed the fall of fascism.
Direction
Rossellini's signature long takes make meetings feel endless.
Production
Painstaking period detail in every crumpled document.

Director
Roberto Rossellini
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Rossellini shot this for Italian state television in just four weeks, explaining the static, stage-bound quality.
This was part of Rossellini's late-period 'didactic' phase, where he basically became a history professor with a camera.