Renzo Rossellini & Roberto Rossellini – L’età del ferro AKA L’âge de fer AKA The Iron Age [French version] (1965)

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Peter Brunette wrote:
At the time of India , as we saw, Rossellini was not really very interested in the medium of television, and the episodes broadcast were little more than outtakes from the later theatrical version. By 1964, however, when Rossellini had begun to take television more seriously, he had learned many things. One of them was that the commentary should add something to the images rather than try to replicate them verbally, as it had in the television series on India. In L’età del ferro (The Iron Age), therefore, the director appears on-screen, acting overtly as teacher and serving as a guarantor of the images, as it were, rather than as their competitor.

His goal in this five-part series is nothing less than a comprehensive overview of the entire Iron Age from the time of the Etruscans to the present day. Most of the early segments are devoted to the progressive refinement of iron implements and weapons, as we move from the earliest inhabitants of the Italian peninsula through the Roman era, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the eighteenth century, and the Industrial Revolution, finally coming to rest at an iron factory at Piombino during World War II. In the fourth episode, Rossellini boldly and imaginatively transforms his documentary into a fictionalized account of one metalworker’s dealings with the Nazis and the Resistance. The final segment examines the present reality and the future promise of our technological society.
(Roberto Rossellini – Peter Brunette/1996)

2.89GB | 4h 30m | 512×384 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/BEC6411484D560A/L_eta_del_ferro_L_age_de_fer_(french_version)_-_Episode_1.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/7054285F0C1564D/L_eta_del_ferro_L_age_de_fer_(french_version)_-_Episode_2.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/0CAF33A70C9B544/L_eta_del_ferro_L_age_de_fer_(french_version)_-_Episode_3.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/5E7A0B30355051D/L_eta_del_ferro_L_age_de_fer_(french_version)_-_Episode_4.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/41EEEDD37968D3F/L_eta_del_ferro_L_age_de_fer_(french_version)_-_Episode_5.mkv

Language:French
Subtitles:None

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Renzo Rossellini & Roberto Rossellini – La lotta dell’uomo per la sua sopravvivenza aka Man’s struggle for survival (1970)

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For three years Rossellini and his son worked on a twelve-part series for Italian television about man’s search for food and the subsequent development of civilization.

sense of cinema wrote:
In 1963 Roberto Rossellini called a press conference and announced: “Il cinema è morto.” “Cinema is dead.”

Rossellini had lost confidence. For four years he refused to direct. He was through with art. Civilisation was collapsing from infantilism; film’s urgent task was to show the masses the map of human achievement. He marketed himself as a purveyor of educational materials. Cynics laughed as Rossellini begged funds from a steel company, Italsider, so that his son Renzo could direct the 4.5-hour The Iron Age (1964), and then convinced Jean Riboud and John de Menil to come up with $500,000 from Schlumberger, IBM, Gulf, and UpJohn so that Renzo could direct the 12-hour Italian-French-Egyptian-Roumanian Man’s Struggle for Survival celebrating the conquest of nature.

French TV came to the rescue, with a nudge from Jean Gruault: La Prise de pouvoir par Louis XIV, which was reportedly seen by 20 million French people the first week of colour broadcasting. Italy’s Christian-Democrats, not to be outdone by Guallists, replied with Acts of the Apostles. “Horizon 2000”, the new production company Riboud and de Menil had given Rossellini, was off and running.

Most of Rossellini’s movies are dedicated to history. There are 36 hours of TV dramatising the past, plus 19 features on Francesco, Garibaldi, the carbonari, Christ, and World War II. His Great Plan was to film the whole history of everything, but to have others do the directing. Fellini was immoral, he maintained, because Fellini preferred to go on making Fellini movies rather than direct one of Rossellini’s didactic subjects.

11.97GB | 704×544 | avi

Language(s):Italian
Subtitles:English

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Renzo Rossellini & Roberto Rossellini – L’età del ferro AKA L’âge de fer AKA The Iron Age [French version] (1965)

Renzo Rossellini & Roberto Rossellini – La lotta dell’uomo per la sua sopravvivenza aka Man’s struggle for survival (1970)