Round 10: Tossup 7

In an anthology film by this director, a drunk African-American soldier sings to an orphaned boy who then steals his boots when he falls asleep. (15[1])In a film by this director, a man insults his wife’s dead friend Charles Lewington, whose poetry motivates her to visit an archaeological museum. At the end of a film by this director, a boy jumps from a ruined building after poisoning his father’s tea. A couple embraces amid a religious procession after leaving an excavation of (*) Pompeii at the end of this director’s film about Alex and Katherine Joyce’s marital issues on the title trip. This director made Europe ’51, Stromboli, and Journey to Italy with his then-wife Ingrid Bergman. For 10 points, name this Italian neorealist director of Germany, Year Zero and Rome, Open City who was the father of the actress Isabella. ■END■

ANSWER: Roberto Rossellini (The first sentence is from Paisan.)
<TM, Other Visual Fine Arts> | NAFTA-Packet-10
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Summary

TournamentEditionMatchHeardConv. %Power %Neg %Avg. Buzz
2026 NAFTA at Stanford01/17/20264100%0%25%121.00
2025 NAFTA Online02/14/20264100%25%0%91.00
2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt02/14/20263100%33%0%83.00
2025 NAFTA at Toronto09/13/20251100%0%100%140.00
2025 NAFTA at Maryland09/27/20251100%100%0%24.00
2025 NAFTA at Harvard10/04/2025367%0%0%112.50
2025 NAFTA at Oxford10/11/20253100%0%0%122.00
2025 NAFTA at Chicago11/08/20256100%17%17%110.67
2025 NAFTA at Columbia11/08/20254100%0%25%112.00