This vintage melodrama was even greater off-screen than on, this is the film which introduced Bergman and Rosselini and began their scandalous affair. The beautiful Karin (Ingrid Bergman) , a young woman from North Europe countries, living in an Italian refugee camp in 1948, marries fisherman Antonio (Mario Vitale) , a resident of the men's camp , to escape from a prison camp and they soon head for his home village, Stromboli. But she cannot get used to the tough life in Antonio's volcano-threatened village, Stromboli. Raging Island...Raging Passions !. This is It!. A Volcano of Emotion!
A thoughtful and brooding drama about a love story that goes wrong . It deals with isolation , loneliness and tradition against modern life . Depicting rural habits in a far place where population lives in poor and unfortunate conditions .The best scenes deal with the village life located on a remote island at the foot of an active volcano , photographed in neo-realist style and detailing the hardships and the way of existence of the fishermen and villagers . There stands out the enjoyable Ingrid Bergman giving very good acting as wife who's brought by her new husband to his home island of Stromboli where she finds the life bleak and isolated and and her marriage a trial .Roberto Rossellini and his future wife Ingrid Bergman met for the first time while making this movie . Rossellini had a celebrated, adulterous affair with Ingrid Bergman that was an international scandal. They became lovers on the set of Stromboli (1950) while both were married to other people and Bergman became pregnant. After they shed their spouses and married, producing three children, history repeated itself when Rossellini cheated on her with the Indian screenwriter Sonali Senroy DasGupta while he was in India at the request of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru to help revitalize that country's film industry. It touched off another international scandal, and Nehru ousted him from the country. Rossellini later divorced Bergman to marry Das Gupta, legitimizing their child that had been born out-of-wedlock.
The motion picture was well directed by Roberto Rosselini who worked with no written script but a handful of personal notes. Rossellini produced his first classic film, the anti-fascist Roma, ciudad abierta (1945) ("Rome, Open City") in 1945, which won the Grand Prize at Cannes. Two other neo-realist classics soon followed, Paisà (1946) ("Paisan") and Alemania, año cero (1948) ("Germany in the Year Zero"). "Rome, Open City" screenwriters Sergio Amidei and Federico Fellini were nominated for a Best Writing, Screenplay Oscar in 1947, while Rossellini himself, along with Amidei, Fellini and two others were nominated for a screen-writing Oscar in 1950 for "Paisan". Rating : 7/10 . Better than average. Essential and indispensable watching for Ingrid Bergman fans.
A thoughtful and brooding drama about a love story that goes wrong . It deals with isolation , loneliness and tradition against modern life . Depicting rural habits in a far place where population lives in poor and unfortunate conditions .The best scenes deal with the village life located on a remote island at the foot of an active volcano , photographed in neo-realist style and detailing the hardships and the way of existence of the fishermen and villagers . There stands out the enjoyable Ingrid Bergman giving very good acting as wife who's brought by her new husband to his home island of Stromboli where she finds the life bleak and isolated and and her marriage a trial .Roberto Rossellini and his future wife Ingrid Bergman met for the first time while making this movie . Rossellini had a celebrated, adulterous affair with Ingrid Bergman that was an international scandal. They became lovers on the set of Stromboli (1950) while both were married to other people and Bergman became pregnant. After they shed their spouses and married, producing three children, history repeated itself when Rossellini cheated on her with the Indian screenwriter Sonali Senroy DasGupta while he was in India at the request of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru to help revitalize that country's film industry. It touched off another international scandal, and Nehru ousted him from the country. Rossellini later divorced Bergman to marry Das Gupta, legitimizing their child that had been born out-of-wedlock.
The motion picture was well directed by Roberto Rosselini who worked with no written script but a handful of personal notes. Rossellini produced his first classic film, the anti-fascist Roma, ciudad abierta (1945) ("Rome, Open City") in 1945, which won the Grand Prize at Cannes. Two other neo-realist classics soon followed, Paisà (1946) ("Paisan") and Alemania, año cero (1948) ("Germany in the Year Zero"). "Rome, Open City" screenwriters Sergio Amidei and Federico Fellini were nominated for a Best Writing, Screenplay Oscar in 1947, while Rossellini himself, along with Amidei, Fellini and two others were nominated for a screen-writing Oscar in 1950 for "Paisan". Rating : 7/10 . Better than average. Essential and indispensable watching for Ingrid Bergman fans.