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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.
Rome, Open City: Directed by Roberto Rossellini. With Aldo Fabrizi, Anna Magnani, Marcello Pagliero, Vito Annichiarico. During the Nazi occupation of Rome in 1944, the Resistance leader, Giorgio Manfredi, is chased by the Nazis as he seeks refuge and a way to escape.
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- Drama, Thriller, War
- Roberto Rossellini
- 1945-10-08
May 15, 2024 · A lightning bolt or a melodrama “full of old ingredients”? How Roberto Rossellini’s wartime drama Rome, Open City became a line-in-the-sand moment for world cinema.
After making films under Mussolini’s fascist regime early in his career, Rossellini broke out with Rome Open City, a shattering and vivid chronicle of the Nazi occupation of Italy’s capital, followed by Paisan and Germany Year Zero, which round out his “war trilogy.”
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Mar 6, 2014 · Rossellini's neorealist classic, re-released in a newly restored digital version, was made in 1945 in straitened circumstances not long after the Nazi occupation of Rome was over. That explains...
- Geoffrey Macnab
Rome, Open City (Roma Citta Aperta) In cinemas 17 May 2024. A landmark of Italian neorealism approaching its 80th anniversary, Roberto Rossellini’s portrait of life under Nazi occupation remains remarkable for its immediacy, tension and power.
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Mar 7, 2014 · Roberto Rossellini’s Rome, Open City has a formidable reputation as a milestone in cinema. But watching such powerful storytelling today reminds Geoff Andrew why some films become classics in the first place.
