Stromboli

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Stromboli

1950,

1h 21m,

Drama

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67%

12 Reviews

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82%

500+ Ratings

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67%

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12 Reviews

82%

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500+ Ratings

Lithuanian Karin (Ingrid Bergman) flees her war-ravaged home country and winds up in Italy, where she's sent to an internment camp. There, she meets Antonio (Mario Vitale), a POW who's just been freed. They enjoy a brief romance, punctuated by Antonio's marriage proposal, and Karin, seeing her chance to escape the camp, accepts. But Antonio takes her back to Stromboli, the volcanic island he lives on, and Karin struggles with a language barrier, brutal living conditions and her outsider status.

Fred Camper

Chicago Reader

Jun 22, 2022

4/4

Rossellini’s films are far from anonymous stylistically despite their casual, improvisational feel...

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Richard Brody

The New Yorker

Mar 6, 2021

Far from disguising or downplaying the production's methods and realities, Rossellini puts them into the foreground and builds upon them the movie's grand emotional world-and his grand social and spiritual vision.

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Nell Dodson Russell

Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder

Jan 14, 2022

The film gets off to a weak start, dawdles along to an anemic climax, comes to a shaky conclusion... Stromboli has none of the artistic merits of Open City or Pasian, both Rossellini pictures.

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Eve Tushnet

Patheos

Feb 12, 2021

There's a riveting early scene with the village priest, and then once you hit the fishing-horror scene, it is pretty much all unforgettable...

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Nicholas Bell

IONCINEMA.com

Nov 12, 2020

Often feels like an exercise of infatuation.

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Clyde Gilmour

Maclean's Magazine

Oct 9, 2019

Director Roberto Rossellini complains it was ruined by inartistic editing in North America. Somebody ruined it, that's for sure.

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Synopsis

Lithuanian Karin (Ingrid Bergman) flees her war-ravaged home country and winds up in Italy, where she's sent to an internment camp. There, she meets Antonio (Mario Vitale), a POW who's just been freed. They enjoy a brief romance, punctuated by Antonio's marriage proposal, and Karin, seeing her chance to escape the camp, accepts. But Antonio takes her back to Stromboli, the volcanic island he lives on, and Karin struggles with a language barrier, brutal living conditions and her outsider status.

Director: Roberto Rossellini
Producer: Roberto Rossellini
Screenwriter: Roberto Rossellini
Distributor: Ingram Distributors, RKO Radio Pictures
Production Co: Berit Films, RKO Radio Pictures Inc., Bero Productions
Genre: Drama
Original Language: Italian
Release Date (Theaters): Feb 15, 1950, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 9, 2019
Runtime: 1h 21m

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