Ingrid Bergman in "Stromboli"
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It's the story of a girl in an Italian displaced persons camp during WW2. She marries a fisherman from Stromboli in order to be released.
Great documentary scenes of the island and the volcano the island takes the name from.
The first film in which Rossellini directs Ingrid Bergman, his future wife.
STROMBOLI: the history of this small Mediterranean island in the Aeolian archipelago, is the story of its still-active volcano. Wrapped in a mysterious, nearly magical aura, it is loved, feared and respected. Today, Stromboli in inhabited by a few hundred people, its population having dwindled from 3000 a century ago. Local demographics were dramatically altered in the 1960's with the arrival of intellectuals and bohemian types who favored its wild coastline and stupendous seascape. Stromboli is still enchanting, with its white structures, the lemons and capers. Automobiles are prohibited on the island whose torturous curves are navigable only by three-wheeled cargo bikes. This is perhaps the reason that Stromboli seems to have kept its allure of forty years ago. Anyone who has fallen in love with this setting in Rossellini's film is sure not to be disappointed by the real thing.
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Stromboli and his volcano
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