My Voyage to Italy | |
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DVD cover
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Directed by | Martin Scorsese |
Produced by | Giorgio Armani |
Written by |
Kent Jones Raffaele Donato Suso Cecchi d'Amico Martin Scorsese |
Starring | Martin Scorsese (host) |
Distributed by | Miramax Films |
Release date
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September 11, 1999 |
Running time
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246 minutes |
Country | United States, Italy |
Language | English/Italian/French/German |
My Voyage to Italy (Italian: Il mio viaggio in Italia) is a personal documentary by acclaimed Italian-American director Martin Scorsese. The film is a voyage through Italian cinema history, marking influential films for Scorsese and particularly covering the Italian neorealism period.
The films of Roberto Rossellini make up for half the films discussed in the entire documentary, dealing with his seminal influence on Italian cinema and cinema history. Other directors mentioned include Vittorio de Sica, Luchino Visconti, Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni.
It was released in 1999 at a length of four hours. Two years later, it was screened out of competition at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.