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RUNTIME
Did you know
Tight 10-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
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The Brook of Ripa Sottile
1941 0h 10m IT
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MASTERPIECE
★9.0TMDB · 1
Synopsis
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Upstream river Ripasottile a shoal of perch fish have born. The news spreads around all animals who live around the river, until also the trouts hear about it, and swim upriver to go eat the newborn fish. So all animals around the river and from the wood organize a desperate expedition to fight the trouts back. At the end the birds manage to wake a fisherman up, just in time to have him catch all the trouts with a single haul.
“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”
Credits
Behind the camera
- Director
- Roberto Rossellini
- Writers
- Elisabetta Riganti, Elisabetta Riganti
- Countries
- Italy
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The take
Roberto Rossellini directs. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in Italy.
Trivia
Things worth knowing
- 1Tight 10-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
- 285 years old — a genuine piece of film history.
- 3Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
- 4IMDB entry: tt0034135 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
- 5Only 1 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.
The technical file
- Runtime
- 10 min · 0h 10m
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- IT
Also by
Roberto Rossellini
Production companies
Who made it
- AL
Alleanza Cinematografica Italiana (A.C.I.)
IT
Key crew
- ProducerElisabetta Riganti
- CinematographyRodolfo Lombardi
- MusicGino Filippini
Release history · US
When it landed
- Theatrical1941-05-04
