My Voyage to Italy

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My Voyage to Italy
Directed by Martin Scorsese
Written by Kent Jones
Raffaele Donato
Suso Cecchi d'Amico
Martin Scorsese
Starring Martin Scorsese (host)
Release date(s) September 11, 1999
Running time 246 min
Language English/Italian/French/German
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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.

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