(ANSA) - VENICE, SEPTEMBER 10 - If on your mobile one of your chats is called I Rossellini and your grandfather was Roberto Rossellini, the director of Rome, open city, and among your relatives there was Ingrid Bergman for example or Anna Magnani who became a friend of family, it is made, "from rossellinite do not heal".
An affectionate, ironic, sarcastic, bitter, absolutely funny portrait is dedicated to this more than extended family - three wives and their respective children - that Alessandro Rossellini, "the half-blood" as he defines himself, son of the second son Renzo Rossellini (his mother is Marcellade Marchis , the director's first wife) and African American Katharine Brown, has created, by going to interview all glitters and relatives around the world, "the United Colors of Rossellini", scattered throughout Sweden, Italy, the United States, India.
The film 'The Rossellinis', a special closing event of the 35th Critics' Week, produced by B&B Film, co-produced by VFS Films with Rai Cinema in association with Istituto Luce Cinecittà, will be released in cinemas on October 26-27-28 distributed by Nexo Digital.
The work is more than a documentary, full of period images, rare films, very recent interviews, "it is a gigantic channel-analytic session during which I tried to cure that special syndrome - Alessandro Rossellini, 57, tells ANSA - which I call rossellinite and that even if they do not admit it, has infected us all, a mysterious virus. It means growing up in the shadow of what is a myth of cinema but which was not easy at all in the family ".
Alessandro Rossellini does not hide his past of drug addiction and precisely the recovery from drugs is the basis of his work "which I love very much" - in a community in the Marche ed - and explains that to show the Rossellini world frankly "at the cost of pulling down the myth from 'altar' was something that in a certain sense could free him 'from a burden as heavy as our surname'.
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