Rossellini's first film is an 8-minute insect opera about a butterfly hostage crisis.
La vispa Teresa (“Lively Theresa”) is based on a well known song; a girl, ten, catches a butterfly and all the other insects intervene to save it.
Direction
Rossellini's debut: already staging tiny tragedies with operatic flair.
Practical Effects
Real insects + forced perspective = uncanny valley of the garden.
Director
Roberto Rossellini
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