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Rome, Open City ( Italian: Roma città aperta ), also released as Open City, [2] 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 1945 film by Roberto Rossellini about the Nazi occupation of Rome and the Italian Resistance. Follow the story of Pina, a pregnant widow who marries her neighbor Francesco, and Giorgio, a resistance leader on the run.
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- Drama, Thriller, War
- Roberto Rossellini
- 1945-10-08
May 15, 2024 · How Roberto Rossellini’s wartime drama Rome, Open City became a line-in-the-sand moment for world cinema. 15 May 2024. Rome, Open City (1945) By Alex Barrett. Features. “The overwhelming experience of 1945 was Rome, Open City,” wrote influential film critic David Shipman in his book Cinema: The First Hundred Years, “it made every movie ...
A classic film by Roberto Rossellini about the Nazi occupation of Rome and the resistance movement. Features introduction, commentary, documentary, and video essay by film scholars and critics.
- Don Pietro Pellegrini
A classic Italian film about the Nazi occupation of Rome in 1944 and the resistance leader Giorgio Manfredi. The plot follows his escape, his girlfriend Marina, his friend Francesco and his fiancée Pina, and the priest Don Pietro who helps them.
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Mar 6, 2014 · Rome, Open City, film review: Gruesome and shocking but plenty of lyricism and humour (12A) Roberto Rossellini, 103 mins Starring: Aldo Fabrizi, Anna Magnani, Marcello Pagliero
Open City, Italian Neorealist film, released in 1945, that portrayed life in Nazi-occupied Rome during World War II.Directed by Roberto Rossellini in a documentary style that was innovative for the time, the movie brought international attention to the Neorealist movement and became one of its defining works, influencing numerous later filmmakers.
