Francesco Rosi's films occupy a unique place in postwar Italian, indeed postwar world cinema. His seventeen feature films are known for their extraordinarily consistent formal balance and their unflinching look at the historical events and cultural traditions that have shaped the Italian national character. They thus represent a body of work of inordinate importance for both the cultural history of Italy and for a realist theory of cinematic representation.

Rosi's films are best understood as cinematic investigations of the most notorious mysteries haunting the collective unconscious of the Italian Democratic Republic.

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