the trunks she arrived with) as she ascends the volcano, Karin is stripped of her pride and reduced — or elevated — to the condition of a crying child, a kind of first human being who, divested of the trappings of self, must learn to see and speak again from a personal "year zero" (to borrow from another Rossellini film title)." The Venice Film Festival ranked Stromboli among the 100 most important Italian films ("100 film italiani da salvare") from 1942–1978. In 2012, the British Film Institute's Sight & Sound critics' poll also listed it as one of the 250 greatest films of all time. Box office The film opened Feb. 15, 1950 in the United States and was a box-office bomb, but did better overseas, where Bergman and Rossellini's affair was considered less scandalous. In all, RKO lost $200,000 on the picture. See also Strombolian eruption Almadraba — the tuna-fishing technique documented in the film The War of the Volcanoes — A 2012 Italian documentary film about the filming of Stromboli and Vulcano References External links lobby poster Modern Marriage on Stromboli an essay by Dina Iordanova at the Criterion Collection 1950 films 1950 drama films Italian drama films 1950s Italian-language films English-language Italian films Italian neorealist films American black-and-white films Films about immigration to Italy Films directed by Roberto Rossellini Films set in Italy Films set in Sicily Films set in the Mediterranean Sea Films set on islands RKO Pictures films American drama films American multilingual films Italian multilingual films Films scored by Renzo Rossellini Italian black-and-white films 1950s American films 1950s Italian films