Roberto Rossellini (Rome, 8 May 1906 – Rome, 3 June 1977)

This broad dictionary entry traces the personal and professional life of the Italian director Roberto Rossellini, proposing a sequence punctuated by a series of significant encounters destined to have an impact in both spheres of his existence, private and public, including the creation of his works. In particular, the encounters with Vittorio Mussolini and Francesco De Robertis; the one with his first wife Marcella De Marchi; the decisive one with fear, between 1943 and 1944, when the Second World War was taking a tragic turn. But also those encounters with, among others, Anna Magnani, Sergio Amidei, the friar Felix Morlion, Ingrid Bergman, and finally with the Indian continent and with television.