TY - BOOK AU - Roberto Rossellini AU - Roberto Rossellini AU - Sergio Amidei AU - Gian Paolo Callegari AU - Art Cohn AU - Renzo Cesana AU - Félix Morlión AU - Ingrid Bergman AU - Mario Vitale AU - Renzo Cesana TI - Stromboli, terra di Dio: Stromboli AV - PN1997 .S776 1950 PY - 1950/// CY - Italy, USA PB - Berit Films, RKO Radio Pictures, Janus Films N1 - Special features include: [Disc 1] - Introduction by director Roberto Ressellini - Rossellini Under Volcano, a 1998 documentary that returns to Stromboli fifty years after the making if the film - Surprised Surprised by Death, a new visual essay by film critic James Quandt on the historical and artistic themes of the trilogy [Disc 2] - Interview with film critic Adriano Apra - Rossellini Through His Own Eyes, a 1992 documentary on the director's approach to cinema, featuring archival interviews with Rossellini and actress Ingrid Bergman N2 - From case cover: The first collaboration between Roberto Rossellini and Ingrid Bergman is a devastating portrait of a woman's existential crisis, set against the beautiful and forbidding backdrop of a volcanic island. After World War II, a Lithuanian refugee (Bergman) marries a simple Italian fisherman (Mario Vitale) she meets in a prisoner of war camp and accompanies him back to his isolated village on an island off the coast of Sicily. Cut off from the world, she finds herself crumbling emotionally, but she is destined for a dramatic epiphany. Balancing the director's trademark neorealism--exemplified here in a remarkable depiction of the fishermen's lives and work--with deeply felt melodrama, Stromboli is a revelation ER -