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Machine to Kill Bad People

Roberto ROSSELLINI

Italy1952 85min D-Cinema B&W

Synopsis

A demon bestows on a working photographer"s camera the power to smite from the Earth "evil-doers". Naturally, the photographer turns his new weapon on. Soon, the poor he is so supposedly so enamored of become his victims too, so rife with impatience and contempt is he, that the slightest flaw is cause for smiting. Inevitably, he embarks on a task to destroy everyone.

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Roberto ROSSELLINI

He, as the director of the Italian neorealist cinema, is one of the most influential directors of all time. His films influenced France’s nouvelle vague movement in the 1950s and ‘60s that changed the face of international cinema. His major works include Rome, Open City(1945) and Germany, Year Zero(1947).