Stromboli (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Stromboli |
| Original title | Stromboli, terra di Dio |
| Country of production | Italy |
| original language | Italian |
| Publishing year | 1950 |
| length | 107 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Roberto Rossellini |
| script | Roberto Rossellini |
| production | Roberto Rossellini |
| music | Renzo Rossellini |
| camera | Otello Martelli |
| cut |
Jolanda Benvenuti Roland Gross |
| occupation | |
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Stromboli is a 1949 film drama directed by Italian director Roberto Rossellini with Ingrid Bergman in the lead role.
action
Italy after the Second World War, 1948: The Lithuanian Karin meets the soldier Antonio in a refugee camp. In order to get out of the camp as quickly as possible, she married the rather simple fisherman from the volcanic island of Stromboli on the spot.
You are traveling to Stromboli. Karin is appalled by the poverty and the barreness of the island and would like to leave immediately. The always active volcano looms high above the island .
The attractive woman quickly arouses resentment and resentment among the locals. To their astonishment, many of the elderly residents are returning emigrants from the United States and therefore speak good English. So she only finds cordial contact with the old people. The pastor of the island cannot help Karin's desperation and, despite his friendliness, tends to be platitudes. A harmless meeting of Karin on the beach with the lighthouse keeper is watched with glee by the population, and Antonio is then mocked as "Cornuto", the horned one. He beats his wife helplessly. She witnesses a tuna catch - a so-called mattanza - with horror .
Soon after, the volcano erupts, forcing the population to spend the night in small fishing boats on the open sea. The now pregnant Karin is now determined to flee because she does not want to give birth to her child on this island. She heard that someone on the other side of the island had a motorboat and tried to get there over the mountain, but collapsed on the volcano. The sight of the starry sky seems to give her hope, and she falls asleep on the mountain. She begs God to help her. A flock of sea birds flying near the lava fields can be seen, and Karin decides to do everything possible to save her child.
background
Ingrid Bergman had seen Roberto Rossellini's films Rome, Open City ( Roma, città aperta , 1945) and Paisà (1946), with which he co-founded the genre of neo - realism , in the USA at the end of the 1940s , and was so enthusiastic that she loved it offered her participation in a film in a letter. At the time, Bergman was already a star in Hollywood cinema, had already won two Golden Globes and an Oscar , and her decision to go to Italy was met with incomprehension in the USA, but also drew numerous reporters to the island to film . Stromboli became the first of seven films Bergman and Rossellini made together.
The affair between Bergman and Rossellini - who were both married - and the announcement of their pregnancy, which began during filming, led to violent attacks against the actress , especially by Christian-religious and Puritan groups in the USA . The Senator Edwin C. Johnson , who in vain is a performance ban of Stromboli tried in the United States, described the couple in a speech as an "apostle of degeneration" ( "apostles of degradation") and complained that his former favorite actress a "powerful force of evil ”(“ a powerful influence of evil ”).
The film was directed by the criticism rejected most part and was commercially very successful, but was still 1950 at the Film Festival of Venice for the Golden Lion nomination. It also influenced tourist interest in the island in the early 1950s. Today Stromboli presents itself as a popular holiday island. The house where the Rossellini / Bergman couple lived was given a plaque commemorating the shooting. The film is shown frequently in the bars on Stromboli.
The film in literature
In the novel, Fever of Leslie Kaplan is a visit to Stromboli , the experience, the main character Damien and his mother described. The film serves as an example of how severe disasters can turn life around. In the structure of the novel, the visit to the film is the point at which the fateful silence becomes overwhelming and the characters communicate less and less.
Reviews
“The first collaboration between the neorealist Rosselini and the Hollywood star Ingrid Bergman, a tough rural melodrama, was disappointing for viewers and critics alike. Only the documentary recordings of a volcanic eruption are exciting. "
“The protagonist finds herself as a foreign body in the desolate environment with its poverty and rugged nature. With amateur actors and religious undertones, the female portrait achieves a dramatic effect in its palpable hopelessness and has been evaluated increasingly positively in the course of its reception history. "
literature
- Roberto Rossellini (Film 36 series). Munich / Vienna 1987. pp. 147–152.
Web links
- Stromboli in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Stromboli atrotten tomatoes(English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sidney Gottlieb: Roberto Rossellini's Rome Open City , Cambridge Film Handbooks, Cambridge University Press 2004 (p. 153)
- ^ Stromboli. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Criticism ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on filmreporter.de, accessed on February 22, 2011.
