Entwined

Roberto Rossellini realized with Jacob Levi Moreno this short (not transmitted) for RTF. It is the prototype of Da Storia Nasce Storia (1991) by Ottavio Rosati broadcasted 35 years later by Italian TV Rai3. The historical meeting of 1956 was organized in Paris by A. A. Schutzenberger and revealed to Roberto Rossellini a particularly congenial acting technique for a potential new didactic TV. The director of photography was the young Claude Lelouch. In 2018 Maria Cristina Sidoni has finally found this old Moreno/Rossellini experiment in the RTF archives; Italy has produced its digital restoration with the Archivio Nazionale Cinema Impresa, Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia di Roma and the Institut National of l'Audiovisuel, in collaboration with Museo Moreno directed by Marco Greco. In 2019 Istituto Luce Cinecittà has published the DVD with subtitles and a booklet in three languages with articles by Adriano Aprà, Maria Cristina Sidoni, Marco Greco, Roberto Cicutto, Ottavio Rosati, Paola de Leonardis, Sergio Toffetti and others. Le Psychodrame has also been presented at 2019 Torino Cinema Festival and at 2019 La Festa del Cinema di Roma. In 2020 it will be presented at Facoltà di Psicologia Sapienza by the rector prof. Fabio Lucidi and the school of Psychodrama Ipod Plays.

Power woman Carla Bergmann is a committed pastor with heart and mind. Thanks to her media-effective appearances, Carla has made a difference in the Third World and, after eventful years abroad, is now looking forward to her pastorate in Cologne. Here she finally wants to take care of her daughter Sarah, who is in a marital crisis. But nothing goes as planned: Sarah resists her domineering mother, and Carla's promised position is already occupied by someone else. The pastor is forced to take over a small church in Sauerland, where she has to start from scratch. At her inaugural service, the church remains yawning, and on top of that, Carla has the thankless task of mediating between the residents and African asylum seekers, who are supposed to move into the former country school despite resistance from the population. Carla only gets support from her brother Lorenz and the art historian Konrad Bechtholsheim, who finds the new pastor more than just likeable. Daughter Sarah, who fled to the country after her marriage to her mother, also supports Carla in this difficult situation - much to the delight of the charming brewery owner Rolf Kottenburg, who falls head over heels in love with Sarah. Carla slowly gained the community's trust with her hands-on manner, but then events came rushing: The recently renovated country school home, where the asylum seekers were to be housed, caught fire.