La balena di Rossellini

La Balena di Rossellini origins from one of the most beautiful Roberto Rossellinis dreams an exemplary project for his autorial path The film conceived but never realized by Rossellini took shape in his notes after a trip to Chile conducted in May of 1971 a trip made to conduct an interviewportrait of Salvador Allende then actually carried out by the director of Rome Open City October 28 1971 Rossellini back from Santiago Chile reads a newspaper reports of a beached whale on the Pacific coast near a poor village inhabited by fishermen From this simple news comes a film script for a fable about wealth and poverty A film whose shooting Rossellini would have been entrusted to the young student Claudio Bondì just graduated from the Experimental Center of Cinematography