Cineteca Nazionale C.S.C

Made up almost entirely of archival interviews with Italian film director Roberto Rossellini (with audio interviews playing over various behind-the-scene bits and archival footage) the director recalls his early life, how he got into film, his political beliefs and how they were formed.

The documentary focuses on some decisive encounters for Pasolini's intellectual parable with the great Oscars of Italian cinema: from Bernardo Bertolucci to Dante Ferretti, from Ennio Morricone to Danilo Donati.

The adventurous life of a provincial playboy catapulted into the glories of the Dolce Vita. A portrait of the lesser-known Fernando Di Leo through the words of family, friends and actors: from his childhood and adolescence in Foggia to his arrival in Rome, from his cinematic successes to the solitude of his final years.