The climax of what great 1952 Italian film, Ingmar Bergman's favorite, has the title character attempting suicide on a train track with his pet dog?
"A Man and His Dog A Man and His Dog (""Un Homme et Son Chien"") is a 2008 French film directed by French director Francis Huster, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo, based on the 1952 film Umberto D. directed by Vittorio De Sica, and written by Cesare Zavattini. It was the first film in seven years featuring Jean-Paul Belmondo due to him having had a stroke. Charles is an old retiree who lives in a maid's room in the house of his lover, a rich widow. He is forced out onto the street with his dog after the widow breaks off the"
"Europe '51 Europe '51 (, , also known as ""The Greatest Love"") is a 1952 Italian neorealist film directed by Roberto Rossellini, starring Alexander Knox and Ingrid Bergman as a woman who's declared insane after her son's suicide. Long fascinated by Francis of Assisi, Roberto Rossellini decided to create a film that placed a person of the saint's character in post-war Italy and showed what the consequences would be. The film's sets were designed by Virgilio Marchi, a veteran Futurist architect. Industrialist George Girard (Alexander Knox) and his wife Irene (Ingrid Bergman) are a wealthy couple living in post-war Rome"
"passages were altered to eliminate controversial content. Film historian David Thomson has described it as ""genuine social realism"" and that it ""suggests with pitiless clarity that the middle class cannot cleanse its conscience simply by enjoying Bicycle Thieves."" Europe '51 Europe '51 (, , also known as ""The Greatest Love"") is a 1952 Italian neorealist film directed by Roberto Rossellini, starring Alexander Knox and Ingrid Bergman as a woman who's declared insane after her son's suicide. Long fascinated by Francis of Assisi, Roberto Rossellini decided to create a film that placed a person of the saint's character in post-war Italy"
"Umberto D. Umberto D. () is a 1952 Italian neorealist film directed by Vittorio De Sica. Most of the actors were non-professional, including Carlo Battisti who plays the title role of Umberto Domenico Ferrari, a poor elderly man in Rome who is desperately trying to keep his rented room. His landlady (Lina Gennari) is evicting him, and his only true friends, the housemaid (Maria-Pia Casilio) and his dog Flike (called 'Flag' in some subtitled versions of the film) are of no help. According to Robert Osborne of Turner Classic Movies, this was De Sica's favorite of all his films. The"
"as a speeding train approaches. Flike becomes frightened, wriggles free and flees. Umberto runs after him. At first Flike warily hides, but eventually Umberto coaxes Flike out to play with a pine cone. Still homeless and nearly penniless, Umberto scampers down the park lane with his dog. De Sica said that the film was quite unpopular in Italy because it was in a period after WWII when the country was just getting back on its feet. Subsequently, they saw Umberto D. as too critical of the pride they were trying to engender in themselves. It was, however, quite popular overseas"
"the imminent demolition of his house. They also inform him that they've shot one of his dogs, Italo, his most beloved. A grieved Katzone buries him. Meanwhile, Snàporaz dances to Fred Astaire with Donatella and a friend of hers (who are both dressed in scanty clothing), but fails to sleep with either of them, instead getting stuck with his ex in bed. Hearing strange noises, he crawls under the bed, entering another dream-like world in which he slides down a toboggan, revisiting his childhood crushes (a sitter, a nurse, a prostitute) along the way. Caged at the end of the"
"and the film he remained most proud of (even dedicating the film to his father). In an interview where he discussed ""Diary of a Country Priest"", ""Psycho"" and ""Citizen Kane"", Ingmar Bergman is quoted as saying, ""Umberto D. is... a movie I have seen a hundred times, that I may love most of all."" Umberto D. Umberto D. () is a 1952 Italian neorealist film directed by Vittorio De Sica. Most of the actors were non-professional, including Carlo Battisti who plays the title role of Umberto Domenico Ferrari, a poor elderly man in Rome who is desperately trying to keep"
"Italian head of the Banco Ambrosiano who was found hanging under Blackfriars Bridge in London in 1982 (it was unclear whether it was suicide or murder; courts in Italy have recently ruled the latter). The name ""Keinszig"" is taken from Manuela Kleinszig, the girlfriend of Flavio Carbone who was indicted as one of Roberto Calvi's murderers in 2005. The film's soundtrack received a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Score. Also, the film's love theme, ""Promise Me You'll Remember"" (subtitled ""Love Theme from ""The Godfather Part III"""") sung by Harry Connick, Jr., received Academy Award and Golden Globe Award nominations"
"Ergastolo Ergastolo (aka ""Prison"") is a black and white 1952 Italian crime melodrama film directed by Luigi Capuano. Rosa Lulli, has an illegitimate 20-year-old son, named Stefano, who lives with her in the house of Professor Arlotta. Stefano is in love with Lydia, the granddaughter of the professor. The couple has a gambling addiction: the need to obtain a large sum to meet gambling debts, which pushes him to accept the loving invitation of Jeannette, owner of a dance school, where Stefano goes to play. But Jeannette is the lover of Pasquale Anitra, head of a criminal gang. When he"
"Death Rides a Horse Death Rides a Horse () is an 1967 Italian Spaghetti Western directed by Giulio Petroni. Bill (John Phillip Law), a boy whose father was killed and mother and sister were raped and murdered in front of him by a gang, sets out 15 years later to exact revenge, having used the time to become an expert marksman with a gun. Each of the outlaws bears a characteristic that Bill memorized while watching his family slaughtered and as they leave one sets the house on fire. One has a tattoo of four aces on his chest, another"
"on location in a Sicilian fishing village, and utilized local non-professional actors. Giuseppe De Santis, on other hand, used actors such as Silvana Mangano and Vittorio Gassman in his 1949 film, ""Bitter Rice"", which is set in the Po Valley during rice-harvesting season. Poetry and cruelty of life were harmonically combined in the works that Vittorio De Sica wrote and directed together with screenwriter Cesare Zavattini: among them, ""Shoeshine"" (1946), ""The Bicycle Thief"" (1948) and ""Miracle in Milan"" (1951). The 1952 film ""Umberto D."" showed a poor old man with his little dog, who must beg for alms against his"
"and leaves the apartment. His parting advice to the maid is to get rid of the boyfriend from Florence. Umberto attempts to find a place for Flike, first with a couple who board dogs, then a little girl he knows, but the latter's nanny makes her give the dog back. Flike goes to play with some children, and Umberto slips away, gambling that one of them will adopt him. Despite Umberto's attempt to abandon Flike, the dog finds him hiding under a footbridge. Finally in desperation, Umberto takes the dog in his arms and walks on to a railway track"
"her. Riccardo, Alberto, Leopoldo, and Moraldo all join in Fausto's desperate search to retrieve his wife and child. When they find her at the home of Fausto's father, Francesco pulls off his belt in a rage and finally whips his son. Later Fausto and Sandra walk home happily, with optimism about their life together. Resolved to abandon the provincial monotony of his dead-end town, Moraldo boards the train for anyplace else (Rome), imagining his ""vitelloni"" friends sleeping their lives away. Having completed an early version of ""La Strada"" with co-screenwriter Tullio Pinelli in 1952, Fellini offered their ""modern fairy tale"""
"named Antonio Ruggeria who was sent to prison for manslaughter, escaped, and was later sent to prison again for things ""that are even beyond putting in a movie that people might find redeemable."" In the book, a copy of a newspaper article describing Antonio's escape from Rikers Island has the crime he committed blanked out. The film shows Giuseppe getting killed on a subway track. The inspiration for the scene was a kid named Billy who was ""riding"" trains when he was killed. The real Giuseppe Ruggeria is a career criminal who was deported to Milan. Montiel describes the real"
"while Melman and Gloria decide to dance on a tightrope. Gia persuades Alex to teach her Trapeze Americano. In the process, they grow closer. Meanwhile, DuBois is arrested in Rome while chasing the animals, but escapes and discovers that Alex was the missing lion from the zoo in New York. Once free, DuBois personally reassembles her injured men and they head toward the Alps, forcing the animals to proceed to London despite incomplete rehearsals. Alex finds Vitaly preparing to leave and convinces him to stay by reminding him of how he enjoys performing the impossible. He suggests that he uses"
"on a train to Monte Carlo, will find themselves being involved in the murder of an elderly millionaire of Dutch origin, a regular guest of the glamorous Riviera location. The bride and groom Remo and Marina, hairdressers, are attracted by the lure of fortune in gambling, with which they intend to start their own business, the Commander Alberto Franzetti, after a failed attempt to ""detoxify"" from the demon of gambling, is back in Monaco, where his wife is waiting for him (Dorian Gray), the pair of borgatari Quirino and Giovanna is committed to bring a dog to millionaire Dutch for"
"to Classe, not far from his hometown. One Friday in early May, Nastagio walks through a pine forest at dusk, where he sees a girl running naked in tears, being chased by two dogs trying to bite her and a Knight with a black sword intending to kill her. Nastagio tries to defend her, but the knight presents himself as Guido of Anastagi and tells of how he had once loved this woman, but because she did not love him, he had himself committed suicide. When the girl died without any regrets for the misery she had inflicted on her"
"and taste for drama are truly what breathe life into ""Ossessione"". Ossessione Ossessione (English: Obsession) is a 1943 Italian film based on the novel ""The Postman Always Rings Twice"", by James M. Cain. Luchino Visconti’s first feature film, it is considered by many to be the first Italian neorealist film, though there is some debate about whether such a categorization is accurate. Gino Costa, a wandering tramp, stops at a small roadside tavern and gas station run by Giovanna Bragana and her older husband, Giuseppe. Giovanna is disgusted by her husband, having married him only for his money, and is"
"to dub her own dialogue; previously her voice was thought to be too throaty and, coupled with her Tunisian accent, was considered undesirable. In September 1962, Fellini shot the end of the film as initially written: Guido and his wife sit together in the restaurant car of a train bound for Rome. Lost in thought, Guido looks up to see all the characters of his film smiling ambiguously at him as the train enters a tunnel. Fellini then shot an alternative ending set around the spaceship on the beach at dusk but with the intention of using the scenes as"
"Stromboli (film) Stromboli, also known as Stromboli, Land of God (), is a 1950 Italian-American film directed by Roberto Rossellini and featuring Ingrid Bergman. The drama is considered a classic example of Italian neorealism. Bergman plays Karin, a displaced Lithuanian in Italy, who secures release from an internment camp by marrying an Italian ex-POW fisherman, (Mario Vitale), whom she meets in the camp. He promises her a great life in his home island of Stromboli, a volcanic island located between the mainland of Italy and Sicily. She soon discovers that Stromboli is very harsh and barren, not at all what"
"until he runs into some people who mistake him for a famous bullfighter ready for his next battle against the bull to be held in bullfight in a few rounds. Nicolino in spite of being trained and prepared for the race and also falls in love with the beautiful Patricia, who encourages him to fight. Nicolino is wittily nicknamed ""Nicolete"" and is faced with the bull but it breaks down. In the hospital Nicolete prove their identity and will marry Patricia. Fear and Sand Fear and Sand () is a 1948 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring"
"Tolomeo breaks his poor twin-brother Antonio, physically like him, who secretly falls in love with Maria Luisa. Mad Animals Mad Animals (Italian:Animali pazzi) is a 1939 Italian comedy film directed by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia and starring Totò, Luisa Ferida and Calisto Bertramo. It was made at the Titanus Studios in Rome Baron Tolomeo dei Tolemei is about to receive the inheritance of a relative, just died. The legacy, however, as he wants the will, must go in part to finance a medical structure for crazy animals. Only then Baron Tolomeo may have the rich heritage. The affair proves complicated, because"
"appears to him a second time to remind him of the price you pay. Totò is desperate and does everything possible to not win the last race, but the legs on the pedals are as haunted and Totò can not stop. Approaching the last race and Totò is on the verge of collapsing morally, but his friends and the lovely Dorina, which Totò was madly in love, you invent a trick so clever as to deceive even the Devil. Toto Tours Italy Toto Tours Italy () is a 1948 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Totò. The"
"Bergman"") (1953), and ""Amori di mezzo secolo"" (segment: ""Napoli 1943"") (1954). American studios soon followed with films like ""Quartet"" (1948) based on stories by W. Somerset Maugham. This led to two sequels, ""Trio"" (1950) and ""Encore"" (1951), as well as imitators like ""O. Henry's Full House"" (1952) and ""Actor's and Sin"" (1952). Sometimes there is one ""top-level"" story, a framing device, which leads into the various ""sub-stories"", as in ""Intolerance"" (1916), ""Tales of Manhattan"" (1942), ""Flesh and Fantasy"" (1943), ""Dead of Night"" (1945), and ""The Illustrated Man"" (1968). ""Dead of Night"" helped to popularize the format for horror films—although they"
"is deteriorating. When efforts to save himself fail, Stockman eventually comes to believe April is the cause of all his suffering. Having lost his sanity, Stockman kidnaps April and attempts to kill her, but the Turtles intervene and the chase takes all parties to a gondola. Stockman nearly kills April before hallucinating that April is his mother, who despairs over Stockman's descent into villainy and madness. Stockman helps April out of the gondola, which crashes into the river below, killing Stockman. However, Leonardo observes that he has survived worse fates and only time will tell if he eventually comes back."
"a woman, another human being."" As a result of the scandal, Bergman returned to Italy, leaving her husband and daughter Pia. She went through a publicized divorce and custody battle for their daughter. Bergman and Rossellini were married on 24 May 1950. In addition to Renato, they had twin daughters (born 18 June 1952): Isabella Rossellini, who became an actress and model, and Isotta Ingrid Rossellini, who became a professor of Italian literature. Rossellini completed five films starring Bergman between 1949 and 1955: ""Stromboli"", ""Europa '51"", ""Viaggio in Italia"", ""Giovanna d'Arco al rogo"", and ""La Paura"" (""Fear""). Rossellini directed her"
"1950 in the United States and was a box office bomb but did better overseas, where Bergman and Rossellini's affair was considered less scandalous. In all, RKO lost $200,000 on the picture. Stromboli (film) Stromboli, also known as Stromboli, Land of God (), is a 1950 Italian-American film directed by Roberto Rossellini and featuring Ingrid Bergman. The drama is considered a classic example of Italian neorealism. Bergman plays Karin, a displaced Lithuanian in Italy, who secures release from an internment camp by marrying an Italian ex-POW fisherman, (Mario Vitale), whom she meets in the camp. He promises her a great"
"Ratman ""For the japanese manga of the same name see Ratman (manga)"" Ratman (original title: Quella villa in fondo al parco) is a 1988 Italian exploitation horror film directed by Giuliano Carnimeo. Two models, Marlis and Peggy, are on a Caribbean Island for a photo shooting. One night Peggy is found dead and her body seems eaten by rats. The victim's sister, Terry, arrives on the island and helped by a mystery novel writer met at the airport starts to investigate. Meanwhile, Marlis and the photographer find other corpses in the jungle. Searching for a help they stopped at an"
"office. Giovanna d'Arco al rogo Giovanna d'Arco al rogo (English: ""Joan of Arc at the Stake"") is a 1954 Italian film directed by Roberto Rossellini and starring his wife Ingrid Bergman, which shows a live performance on December 1953 at the San Carlo Theatre in Naples. It is based on the oratorio Jeanne d'Arc au Bûcher by Paul Claudel and Arthur Honegger. It was filmed using a color process called Gevacolor. The film takes place mostly in a surrealistic fantasy around the time of the execution of Joan of Arc. Joan of Arc, played by Ingrid Bergman, is being burned"
"the chained pack of dogs into a frustrated frenzy. He begins to delight in taunting them, until one day when Chief breaks his chain and chases him. The Master sees the dog escape and follows with Copper. As Chief skillfully trails the fox, Tod flees along a railroad track while a train is approaching, waiting to jump to safety until the last minute. Chief is killed by the train. With Chief buried and Master crying over a dead dog he trains Copper to ignore all foxes except for Tod. Over the span of the two animals' lives, man and dog"
"fascination for twenty-four hours. Io piaccio Io piaccio (also known as ""La via del successo... con le donne"") is a 1955 Italian comedy film directed by Giorgio Bianchi. Professor Maldi, a researcher on the company held by Commendatore Tassinetti (Aldo Fabrizi), experiments on various animals, and especially on the capon Gildo, its preparation which should give courage to the men. Pressed by Tassinetti Maldi decides to experiment on himself the latest version of its compound, without waiting to know the reaction of the capon. Soon, the shy Maldi finds himself desired by every woman he meets: rather than courage, his"
"film and Alfred Hitchcock's ""Suspicion"" and ""Rich and Strange"". ""Bergman on Bergman"", Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, New York 1973. Thirst (1949 film) Thirst () is a 1949 Swedish drama film directed by Ingmar Bergman. It was released as Three Strange Loves in the United Kingdom. Rut and her husband Bertil travel home by train after a holiday in Italy. Their marriage is unhappy due to Rut's changing moods and heavy drinking. While passing through the ruins of post-war Germany, Rut recalls an earlier affair with married military officer Raoul. Raoul forced her to abort their child, which resulted in complications, Rut's"
"change in ""their dog"" too, when he bolts Simmons to the ground to get a piece of turkey. That night, Beethoven hears Madison whimpering because of a bad dream, and comforts her. At the next obedience class, Michelangelo leaves everyone in astonishment, by finishing the entire new obstacle course, while the sergeant is announcing about the course. Beethoven ruins a dinner party, when Nigel tries to kidnap him. A therapist points out to Mrs. Sedgewick that the reason ""Michelangelo"" is acting this way is because he is the first one exhibiting ""symptoms"". The therapist suggests that it may be because"