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India: Matri Bhumi (1959)

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India: Matri Bhumi

Roberto Rossellini | Italy | 1959 | Unclassified (15+)
Film

When

Wed 19 Mar 2025

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This remarkable work of docu-fiction sees Rossellini take his neo-realist filmmaking style, which he pioneered in post-World War II Italy, to India for a series of vignettes that begin in Mumbai and span out to the far reaches of rural India.

Co-written by Iranian diplomat and renowned author Fereydoun Hoveyda, and featuring a cast of non-actors, the film is a poetic ethnographic study of life in India during the 1950s, beautifully captured by cinematographer Aldo Tonti who had previously worked with Rossellini on Europa ’51 and Dov’è la libertà…? in the early ’50s.

35mm print courtesy of Cinecittà Luce.

Format: 35mm
Language: Italian with English subtitles
Source: Cinecittà Luce
Courtesy: Cinecittà Luce
Runtime: 90 mins

Event duration

90 mins

Rating

Unclassified (15+)

Unclassified 15 + (unless accompanied by an adult)

Where

Cinema 1, Level 2
ACMI, Fed Square

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