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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.
Rome Open City. This was Roberto Rossellini’s revelation, a harrowing drama about the Nazi occupation of Rome and the brave few who struggled against it.
May 15, 2024 · Rome, Open City: Roberto Rossellini’s great leap for realism on screen. 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.
An Italian resistance leader, Giorgio Manfredi, hides from Nazis with a widow, a priest, and his friend's help. Though Rome is an open city, daily life is tough under occupation. Pina, a pregnant widow, plans to marry Francesco, aided by the fearless priest Don Pietro.
Rome Open City. Directed by Roberto Rossellini • 1945 • Italy. Starring Aldo Fabrizi, Anna Magnani, Marcello Pagliero. This was Roberto Rossellini’s revelation, a harrowing drama about the Nazi occupation of Rome and the brave few who struggled against it.
Rome, Open City (Roma Citta Aperta) 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.
Rome, 1944. Giorgio Manfredi, one of the leaders of the Resistance is tracked down by the Nazis. He goes to his friend Francesco's, and asks Pina, Francesco's fiance, for help. Pina must warn a...
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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.
Declared as an "open city" to be spared from the devastating air bombings, the war-battered and Nazi-occupied Rome of 1943-1944, struggles to survive. Under the oppressors' heavy thumb, the underground leader of the Resistance, Giorgio Manfredi, nearly gets caught and seeks refuge at his friend Francesco's home.
