Rome, Open City (1945)

19451h 43mdir. Roberto RosselliniGermanEnglish subtitlesKingdom of Italydrama filmart film

With Aldo Fabrizi, Anna Magnani, Marcello Pagliero, Maria Michi, Francesco Grandjacquet, Giovanna Galletti, Harry Feist, Nando Bruno

Directed by Roberto Rossellini

Rome, Open City (Italian: Roma città aperta), also released as Open City, is a 1945 Italian neorealist war drama film directed by Roberto Rossellini and co-written by Sergio Amidei, Celeste Negarville and Federico Fellini. Set in Rome in 1944, the film follows a diverse group of characters coping under the Nazi occupation, and centers on a Resistance fighter trying to escape the city with the help of a Catholic priest. The title refers to the status of Rome as an open city following its declaration as such on 14 August 1943. The film is the first in Rosselini's "Neorealist Trilogy", followed by Paisan (1946) and Germany, Year Zero (1948).

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