FILM DIRECTOR

Roberto Rossellini

1906 - 1977

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Roberto Gastone Zeffiro Rossellini (8 May 1906 – 3 June 1977) was an Italian film director, screenwriter and producer. He was one of the most prominent directors of the Italian neorealist cinema, contributing to the movement with films such as Rome, Open City (1945), Paisan (1946), and Germany, Year Zero (1948). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Roberto Rossellini has received more than 2,503,336 page views. His biography is available in 62 different languages on Wikipedia. Roberto Rossellini is the 47th most popular film director (down from 34th in 2019), the 454th most popular biography from Italy (down from 310th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Italian Film Director.

Roberto Rossellini is most famous for his neorealist films, which were a reaction to the artificiality of the Hollywood studio system.

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  • 2.5M

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  • 69.50

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 62

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.24

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.84

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Roberto Rossellini ranks 47 out of 2,041. Before him are David Lynch, Lars von Trier, Billy Wilder, Vittorio De Sica, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and Yasujirō Ozu. After him are Isao Takahata, Emir Kusturica, Alan Parker, Takeshi Kitano, Oliver Stone, and Michael Haneke.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Roberto Rossellini ranks 23. Before him are Sayyid Qutb, Sergei Korolev, Faisal of Saudi Arabia, Billy Wilder, Henri Charrière, and Hans Bethe. After him are Ernst Ruska, Emmanuel Levinas, Ilse Koch, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Soichiro Honda, and Ed Gein. Among people deceased in 1977, Roberto Rossellini ranks 11. Before him are Wernher von Braun, Anthony Eden, Stefania Turkewich, Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, Ludwig Erhard, and René Goscinny. After him are Jacques Prévert, Aleksandr Vasilevsky, Makarios III, Alexey Stakhanov, Kurt Schuschnigg, and Anaïs Nin.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Roberto Rossellini ranks 454 out of 5,161. Before him are Pope Nicholas IV (1227), Fabio Capello (1946), Pope Gregory II (669), Umberto Nobile (1885), Andrea del Sarto (1486), and Pope Symmachus (460). After him are Lorenzo Valla (1407), Pope Zosimus (400), Parmigianino (1503), Pope Agapetus II (900), Gaius Julius Caesar (-135), and Pope John IX (850).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Italy

Among film directors born in Italy, Roberto Rossellini ranks 9. Before him are Luchino Visconti (1906), Sergio Leone (1929), Bernardo Bertolucci (1941), Michelangelo Antonioni (1912), Tinto Brass (1933), and Vittorio De Sica (1901). After him are Frank Capra (1897), Franco Zeffirelli (1923), Dario Argento (1940), Giuseppe Tornatore (1956), Ettore Scola (1931), and Sergio Corbucci (1926).

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