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
Luigi Vannucchi
Alcide De Gasperi
Dominique Darel
Romana De Gasperi
Rita Calderoni
Consalvo Dell'Arti
Ivanoe Bonomi
Renato Montanari
Pietro Secchia
Tino Bianchi
Palmiro Togliatti
Corrado Olmi
Giuseppe Di Vittorio
Aldo Rendine
Giuseppe Romita
Vittorio Ripamonti
Don Signora
Ennio Balbo
Nenni
Nicola Morelli
Badoglio
Rita Forzano
Suor Maria De Gasperi
Valeria Sabel
Francesca De Gasperi
Paolo Bonacelli
Giorgio Amendola
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.
IT
