TITLE...........: Europa '51 (1952) [Italian Cut] STARS...........: Ingrid Bergman, Alexander Knox, Ettore Giannini DIRECTOR........: Roberto Rossellini WRITERS.........: Roberto Rossellini, Sandro De Feo, Mario Pannunzio, Ivo Perilli, Brunello Rondi GENRE...........: Drama TOMATOMETER.....: 76 IMDB SCORE......: 7.4 IMDB LINK.......: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043511 RUNTIME.........: 1h 58mn SIZE............: 8.42 GB VIDEO CODEC.....: HEVC (Main10@L4) BITRATE.........: 10000 Kbps (2-pass) RESOLUTION......: 1428x1080 ASPECT RATIO....: 1.33:1 FRAMERATE.......: 23.976 fps AUDIO...........: Italian FLAC 1.0 SUBTITLES.......: ENG SOURCE..........: Criterion Blu-ray ENCODE DATE.....: 2025-01-13 NOTE............: The extras are included with the international cut. Ingrid Bergman plays a wealthy, self-absorbed Rome socialite racked by guilt over the shocking death of her young son. As a way of dealing with her grief and finding meaning in her life, she decides to devote her time and money to the city’s poor and sick. Her newfound, single-minded activism leads to conflicts with her husband and questions about her sanity. The intense, often overlooked Europe ’51 was, according to Rossellini, a retelling of his own The Flowers of St. Francis from a female perspective. This unabashedly political but sensitively conducted investigation of modern sainthood was the director’s favorite of his films