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Stromboli, aka Stromboli, terra di dio, is a 1950 Italian film by Roberto Rossellini, featuring Ingrid Bergman.

The film is the result of Ingrid Bergman's letter to Rossellini, in which she wrote she admired his work and she wanted to make a movie with him. During filming they got into an affair, although they were both married. This caused an enormous scandal in the United States, and Bergman's Hollywood career ended (for a few years, that is).

Plot

Bergman plays a Lithuanian prisoner of war in Italy, who escapes the internment camp by marrying an Italian fisherman (Mario Vitale), whom she meets at the other side of the barbed wire. Soon she finds out that his home island Stromboli is dull, empty, and full of conservative people, who act rather hostile to the mondaine woman. Besides, she hardly speaks the language. She only wants to escape the volcano island, acting rather spoiled and arrogant herself.

The film also features documentary like segments about fishing and about the evacuation after the eruption of the volcano. Most villagers are played by actual people from the island.

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