1906-1977. Italian film director. His World
War II trilogy of films, Roma citta
aperta/Rome, Open City 1945, Paisa/Paisan
1946, and Germania anno zero/Germany Year
Zero 1947 are considered landmarks in postwar
European cinema. In 1949 he made Stromboli,
followed by other films in which his wife
Ingrid Bergman appeared. After their divorce
he made General della Rovere 1959 and
embarked on television work including a
feature-length film for French TV La Prise de
Pouvoir par Louis XIV/The Rise of Louis XIV
1966.