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2 days ago · Rome, Open City. Showing: 24 May 2024 until 30 May 2024. Roberto Rossellini’s 1945 masterpiece won the Grand Prix (forerunner of the Palme d’Or) at the 1946 Cannes Film Festival. Now approaching its 80th anniversary, it returns to the big screen, 4K restored. Mixing fact and fiction, Rome, Open City is a story of life and death, depicting ...
2 days ago · Between 1945 and 1946, Roberto Rossellini released three movies depicting various phases of World War II.
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6 days ago · The Second World War was coming to an end, and in Italy, where fascism had reigned strong, people were struggling to stay afloat. Thus, certain filmmakers, such as Vittorio De Sica and Roberto Rossellini, decided to present a more accurate view of Italy, subsequently depicting people affected by war and poverty.
2 days ago · Neorealist works such as Roberto Rossellini 's trilogy Rome, Open City (1945), Paisà (1946), and Germany, Year Zero (1948), with professional actors such as Anna Magnani and a number of non-professional actors, attempted to describe the difficult economic and moral conditions of postwar Italy and the changes in public mentality in everyday life.
1 day ago · The following notable deaths occurred in 2024. Names are reported under the date of death, in alphabetical order. A typical entry reports information in the following sequence:
1 day ago · Ten deadliest natural disasters by highest estimated death toll excluding epidemics and famines. This list takes into account only the highest estimated death toll for each disaster and lists them accordingly. It does not include epidemics and famines.
5 days ago · A formal review for the U.K. government sheds light on the number of people who died at WWII Nazi camps on a British island – and the failure to hold anyone to account.
