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Roberto Rossellini Post-War Neo-Realist Trilogy: “Open City” (1945): Ana Magnani: Resistance in Rome “Paisan” (1946): Six stories on Allied Invasion and Nazi retreat “Germany Year Zero” (1947): Hungry boy lives in Berlin rubble “The Miracle” (1948) Anna Magnani is a crazed peasant woman who claims her pregnancy is the result of immaculate conception. Rossellini intended this film to be a study of personal faith in the face of social ridicule but the film was denounced by the New York Catholic League as "heretical", Protests, bomb scares and the threat of fines and jail terms (possible at the time since films were not protected as free speech under the first Amendment) forced the distributors to initiate a landmark lawsuit. The case, which went to the Supreme Court, established for the first time that film was a form of speech protected by the First Amendment. The Ingrid Bergman scandal and their collaboration: “Stromboli” (1949): Bergman goes to live on an island and faces repudiation “The Greatest Love” (1952) “Ingrid Bergman” (1953) Episode in We, the Women with Bergman as herself. “Voyage to Italy” (1953) Starring Ingrid Bergman and George Sanders. “Joan of Arc at the Stake” (1954) “La Paura” (Fear) (1954) Last Rossellini film starring Ingrid Bergman. “Stromboli”
Vittorio De Sica and Cesare Zavattini The former White Telephone Comedy leading man joins the socialist writer and they become the standard bearers of Italian Neo-Realism. “Shoeshine” (1946) “The Bicycle Thief” (1948) “Miracle in Milan” (1950) “Umberto D.” (1952) Vittorio De Sica Cesare Zavattini The Bicycle Thief André Bazin on “Umberto D.” : "I have no hesitation in stating that the cinema has rarely gone such a long way toward making us aware of what it is to be a man. And also, for that matter, of what it is to be a dog."
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