Thursday, July 07, 2005

[Riprese per Santa Brigida]


Ingrid Bergman visits what was then known as Santa Brigida a Campo de' Fiori. Santa Brigida is a monastery church dedicated to St Bridget (Heliga Birgitta) of Sweden and the Swedish national church in Rome. Instead of Campo de' Fiori it now belongs to the Piazza Famese. The Santa Brigida footage is in YouTube.

SE 1952. D: Roberto Rossellini. Featuring Ingrid Bergman. Silent footage. 9'. Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia – Cineteca Nazionale, from Cin/SFI. Wednesday 6 July 2005, Cinema Lumière 2, Il Cinema Ritrovato, Bologna. Outtakes and rushes shot for the Swedish short film För barnens skull (For the Sake of the Children) produced by the Swedish charity organization Rädda barnen (Save the Children). Ingrid Bergman visits the Brigida nunnery at piazza Famese in Rome to help nuns distribute clothes donated to children in need.

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