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Rome, Open City is a italien film of genre Drama directed by Roberto Rossellini released in USA on 25 february 1946 with Aldo Fabrizi
Rome, Open City (1945)
Roma città aperta
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Add to a movie listRome, Open City (Italian: Roma città aperta) is a 1945 Italian drama film directed by Roberto Rossellini. In its English subtitled release it was named, Open City. The picture features Aldo Fabrizi, Anna Magnani and Marcello Pagliero, and is set in Rome during the Nazi occupation in 1944. The film won several awards at various film festivals, including the most prestigious Cannes' Grand Prize, and was also nominated for the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar at the 19th Academy Awards.
Synopsis
In occupied Rome (an open city after 14 August 1943), German SS troops are trying to arrest the engineer Giorgio Manfredi, a communist and a leader of the Resistance against the Nazis and Fascists, who is staying in a rooming house. The landlady warns him in time of the Germans' arrival, so that he can elude them by jumping across the rooftops. He goes to the home of another Resistance fighter, Francesco. There he encounters Pina who lives in the next apartment. Pina is Francesco’s fiancée, and is visibly pregnant. She first suspects Giorgio of being a cop and gives him a rough time, but when he makes it clear he is not, she welcomes him into Francesco’s apartment to wait for him. With Pina’s help (she is also part of the Resistance), Giorgio contacts Don Pietro Pellegrini, a Catholic priest who is also helping the Resistance, and asks him to transfer messages and money to a group of Resistance fighters outside the city: because Giorgio is now known to the Gestapo, he cannot do it himself.Actors
Aldo Fabrizi
(Don Pietro Pellegrini)
Anna Magnani
(Pina)
Marcello Pagliero
(Giorgio Manfredi aka Luigi Ferraris)
Maria Michi
(Marina Mari)
Alberto Tavazzi
(The Priest (uncredited))
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