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Francesco De Robertis was a very special figure in Italian cinema
It was claer that he came to Taranto to shoot "La nave bianca"
but also in the '48 "Fantasmi del mare"
because he was a commander in the Royal Navy
how it was called in that times
The Navy made an agreement with the "Scalera Film"
they started a mechanism to produce more full of film
that would have a system propaganda
not so much about the war but about of the Navy
Roberto Rossellini had a contract with the "Scalera Film"
so it was almost a natural step
also because he had previously shot the war films
it was a natural step to shoot
for Francesco De Robertis the film "La nave bianca"
It is the story of a ship-hospital
and had to be in the first instance a
film that tells the activities of this ship-hospital
that crosses and collects wounded people to care for them
The controversy that pits, in some way, the figure in the
historiography of Francesco De Robertis to that of Roberto Rossellini
in relation to their actual parentage of "La nave bianca"
is one of those difficult to solve
On the one side we have witnesses who say
about De Robertis that he was very affectionate
to Rossellini that he gave him a lot of liberty
intervening heavily in the development
on the other you can find a relationship with conflicts
We could say, that Rossellini got the idea to use
the reality "tout coure" of real landscapes
fell in situations of fiction
that would eventually be the starting point, even if
they are not unique and totally of the neorealism
De Robertis wanted to shoot in the second flush
a further material which tends to talk
about the human aspects of the story
so the story of love that bound the nurse to one of the sailors
and that had antecedent in a series of letters
that the two had exchanged from the front