Ingrid Bergman, l’italiana

In May 1952, Unitalia Film-IFE, in collaboration with the prestigious Edizioni d'Arte, published around thirty issues gathered under the title: Volti del cinema italiano. Each issue was dedicated to a "face" of our cinema and was accompanied by a short text written by a leading name in Italian culture. Among the faces of Italian cinema to be promoted abroad, the beautiful one of the Swedish Ingrid Bergman stands out. The accmpaigning text is by Elio Vittorini, who has the merit to capture the essence of what everyone noted, over time, when writing about the actress: a unique combination of exceptionality and naturalness. An only apparent contradiction, which characterized Ingrid Bergman right from the start and made her a frontier actress. For her ability to reconcile opposites. For always succeeding in crossing geographical, professional and personal boundaries, throughout her career and throughout her life. For her capacity of becoming Italian without losing the aura of a foreigner, as the episode Ingrid Bergman in We the Women, released in 1953, admirably shows.