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HOTEL ST'ANSELMO PIAZZA DI ST'ANSELMO 2, ROME

Correva l'anno 1973. L'Hotel St'Anselmo divenne la mia prima base operativa giornalistica. Nell'atmosfera rinascimentale della mia stanza al pianterreno trovai sostegno per i miei giovani piedi e per l'aspirante immaginazione. La stanza aveva una porta che dava sul giardino sul retro. Era tutto così fresco e nuovo per me; la vita era all'inizio. Ero giovane e volevo essere qualcosa; e poi ho iniziato a scrivere.

E da allora l'ho fatto. Scrivere era connettere e connettere è creare dialogo e terreno comune. Sono passati molti anni ormai e sono giunto alla conclusione che senza empatia, rispetto e dignità noi umani non abbiamo alcuna possibilità di sopravvivenza. Empatia per la persona davanti a noi stessi; rispetto dei valori umani e della dignità. Hotel Sant'Anselmo, mi hai dato speranza, hai impostato la rotta e ti ringrazio!

The year was 1973. Hotel St'Anselmo became my first journalistic operational base. In the Renaissance atmosphere of my room on the ground floor I found support for my young feet’s and aspiring imagination. The room had a door that opened up to the back-garden. It was all so fresh and new to me; life was at it’s beginning. I was young and wanted to be something; and then I started to write.

And I have done that ever since. To write was to connect, and to connect is to create dialogue and common ground. Many years have passed now, and I have come to the wisdom that without empathy, respect and dignity we as humans stand no chance for survival. Empathy for the person right in front of ourselves; respect for human values and dignity. Hotel St’Anselmo, you gave me hope, you set the course and I thank you!

      Italian Tenor Luigi Infantino            interviewed by Harald Jan Dahle in his home in Rome, 1977

Harald Jan Dahle's Cooperation with the Institute

THE ITALIAN CULTURAL INSTITUTE

Instituto Italiano Di Cultura, Oslo

Professor Dr. Panagiotis Kizeridis

"The cultural contact always comes first!"

The J Paul Getty Villa, Pacific Palisades, CA

Harald Jan Dahle's visit - a reconstruction of Villa Dei Papiri, Herculanum Italy

The Getty Villa is one of two locations of the J Pauld Getty Museum. Located at the southerly end of the Malibu coast in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, USA. The Getty Villa is an educational center and museum dedicated to the study of the arts and cultures of ancient Greece, Rome, and Etruria. The collection has 44,000 Greek, Roman, and Etruscan antiquities dating from 6,500 BC to 400 AD, including the Landsowne Heracles.

The Villa of the Papyri (Italien: Villa dei Papiri, also known as Villa dei Pisoni) is a private house in the ancient Roman city of Herculaneum, current commune of Ercolano, southern Italy. Situ- ated north-west of the township, the residence sits halfway up the slope of the volcano Vesu- vius without other buildings to obstruct the view. The villa suburbana was perhaps owned by Julius Caesar's father-in-law, Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesonius.

Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Napoli

Dottore Stefano De Caro

Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Napoli

Villa Dei Papiri (Papyri), Herculanum - floor plan

Villa dei Papiri (Papyri): The J.Paul Getty Villa, Malibu

Professor Giovanni Gambella

Istituto Ialiano Di Cultura, Oslo

The Independent Film Directors

Dino Risi intervieved by Harald Jan Dahle in Rome, November 1977

Michele Mercier in a film by Dino Risi

Films by Dino Risi

Michele Mercier in a film by Dino Risi

1977 Cinecitta 40 Years Aniversary

Harald Jan Dahle's visit and interviews at Cinecitta and with film directors and stars in Rome

Harald Jan Dahle holding on to a head used in Federico Fellini's "SATYRICON", with the set of Fellini's film "ROMA" behind left. Photo from November 1977.

Alberto Sciaretta, below, business Director at Cinecitta with John  Capes from Technicolor seen here together at the Cannes Film Festival 1975. Sciaretta was interviewed by Harald Jan Dahle in Cinecitta November 1977

Maestro Federico Fellini with Marcello Mastroianni and Sophia Loren

Harald Jan Dahle's article in the Norway's largest daily newspaper Aftenposten

RAI RADIOTELEVISIONE ITALIANA

Dr. Claudio G. Fava TV2

Harald Jan Dahle's interview with Dr. Claudio G Fava

 "The one and only" Rosanna Vaudetti,

Annunciatrice, RAI TV2

Harald Jan Dahle's interview with Rosanna Vaudetti

Angelica Balabanoff (Balabanova)

Harald Jan Dahle met with Mr. and Mrs. Julio Bars, friends and nabor of Angelica Balabanoff in Rome, and visited her grave. 

Lenin -Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, (22.4.1870-21.1.1924) "Workers in all countries, unite!"

The once so proud Benito Mussolini, (29.7.1883 - 28.4 1945)

The J Paul Getty Villa Malibu

Rome Film

All photos by Harald Jan Dahle

Alberto Sciaretta, Cinecitta

Cinecitta 1939

Cinecitta as refugee camp 1945

My Australian friend here seen in a saloon bar on an old set, had been a prisoner of war at Cinecitta.

Sergio Leone

Cinecitta on the set of Star Crash November 1977

David Hasselhof

Caroline Munro