My Voyage to Italy

My Voyage to Italy
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Directed byMartin Scorsese
Written byKent Jones
Raffaele Donato
Suso Cecchi d'Amico
Martin Scorsese
Produced byGiorgio Armani
StarringMartin Scorsese (host)
Edited byThelma Schoonmaker
Distributed byMiramax Films
Release date
  • September 11, 1999 (1999-09-11)
Running time
246 minutes
CountriesUnited States
Italy
LanguagesEnglish
Italian
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 account 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 and 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.[1]

  1. ^ "Festival de Cannes: My Voyage to Italy". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-10-24.