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Rome, Open City
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. Set in Rome in 1944, the film follows a diverse group of characters coping under the Nazi occupation, and centers on a Resistance fighter trying to escape the city with the help of a Catholic priest. The title refers to the status of Rome as an open city following its declaration as such on 14 August 1943. The film is the first in Rosselini's "Neorealist Trilogy", followed by Paisan (1946) and Germany, Year Zero (1948).
Open City is considered one of the most important and representative works of Italian neorealism, and an important stepping stone for Italian filmmaking as a whole. It was one of the first post-war Italian pictures to gain major acclaim and accolades internationally, winning the prestigious Palme d'Or at the 1946 Cannes Film Festival and being nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar at the 19th Academy Awards. It launched director Rosselini, screenwriter Fellini, and actress Anna Magnani into the international spotlight.
In 2008, the film was included on the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage’s 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that "have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978".
In 1944, on the eve of Rome's liberation by the Allies, communist and local leader of the Italian Resistance Luigi Ferraris (hiding under the alias of engineer Giorgio Manfredi) eludes capture by the SS. He takes refuge at the home of Francesco, another resistance fighter. With the help of Francesco's pregnant fiancée Pina, Luigi contacts Don Pietro, a Catholic priest, who helps deliver money and messages to a group of partisans outside the city.
Nazi commander Major Bergmann organises a raid of Francesco's apartment building. While Luigi again escapes, Francesco is arrested and thrown in a truck to be hauled off. Seeing him, Pina breaks through a cordon screaming his name, but is shot dead by the soldiers in front of her young son. Don Pietro, who was in the building to erase any trace of the Resistance weapons under the guise of administering last rites for a dying man, holds her in his arms and prays.
The German convoy carrying Francesco and other Italian prisoners is attacked by the partisans. Most of the prisoners manage to escape, and Francesco reconnects with Luigi. The two then hide at the home of Luigi's girlfriend, nightclub performer Marina. Luigi rebukes Marina over her lifestyle and Marina, having become addicted to painkillers by Gestapo agent Ingrid, betrays both him and Francesco to the Nazis. Luigi and Don Pietro are arrested the next morning, while Francesco narrowly eludes capture. Ingrid rewards Marina with a fur coat and more painkillers.
Bergmann, seeking to extract everything from his captives before dawn in order to take the partisans by surprise, orders Luigi to be tortured and forces Don Pietro to watch. In an attempt to sway Don Pietro, he describes Luigi as an atheist, a communist and an enemy of the Church, while Don Pietro placidly responds that anyone who strives to live a righteous life is doing God's work. Luigi eventually dies without revealing anything. Marina, who was in the adjacent officers' club, faints after witnessing the aftermath. Ingrid declares that she is now useless and retrieves her fur coat.
Don Pietro is executed the following morning, though a German officer has to intervene when the Italian firing squad appears reluctant in carrying out the order. The parish altar boys look on and whistles a Resistance tune to Don Pietro, which heartens him. The boys then bow their heads in grief and slowly depart, the city of Rome and the dome of St. Peter's Basilica looming in the background.
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Rome, Open City
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. Set in Rome in 1944, the film follows a diverse group of characters coping under the Nazi occupation, and centers on a Resistance fighter trying to escape the city with the help of a Catholic priest. The title refers to the status of Rome as an open city following its declaration as such on 14 August 1943. The film is the first in Rosselini's "Neorealist Trilogy", followed by Paisan (1946) and Germany, Year Zero (1948).
Open City is considered one of the most important and representative works of Italian neorealism, and an important stepping stone for Italian filmmaking as a whole. It was one of the first post-war Italian pictures to gain major acclaim and accolades internationally, winning the prestigious Palme d'Or at the 1946 Cannes Film Festival and being nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar at the 19th Academy Awards. It launched director Rosselini, screenwriter Fellini, and actress Anna Magnani into the international spotlight.
In 2008, the film was included on the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage’s 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that "have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978".
In 1944, on the eve of Rome's liberation by the Allies, communist and local leader of the Italian Resistance Luigi Ferraris (hiding under the alias of engineer Giorgio Manfredi) eludes capture by the SS. He takes refuge at the home of Francesco, another resistance fighter. With the help of Francesco's pregnant fiancée Pina, Luigi contacts Don Pietro, a Catholic priest, who helps deliver money and messages to a group of partisans outside the city.
Nazi commander Major Bergmann organises a raid of Francesco's apartment building. While Luigi again escapes, Francesco is arrested and thrown in a truck to be hauled off. Seeing him, Pina breaks through a cordon screaming his name, but is shot dead by the soldiers in front of her young son. Don Pietro, who was in the building to erase any trace of the Resistance weapons under the guise of administering last rites for a dying man, holds her in his arms and prays.
The German convoy carrying Francesco and other Italian prisoners is attacked by the partisans. Most of the prisoners manage to escape, and Francesco reconnects with Luigi. The two then hide at the home of Luigi's girlfriend, nightclub performer Marina. Luigi rebukes Marina over her lifestyle and Marina, having become addicted to painkillers by Gestapo agent Ingrid, betrays both him and Francesco to the Nazis. Luigi and Don Pietro are arrested the next morning, while Francesco narrowly eludes capture. Ingrid rewards Marina with a fur coat and more painkillers.
Bergmann, seeking to extract everything from his captives before dawn in order to take the partisans by surprise, orders Luigi to be tortured and forces Don Pietro to watch. In an attempt to sway Don Pietro, he describes Luigi as an atheist, a communist and an enemy of the Church, while Don Pietro placidly responds that anyone who strives to live a righteous life is doing God's work. Luigi eventually dies without revealing anything. Marina, who was in the adjacent officers' club, faints after witnessing the aftermath. Ingrid declares that she is now useless and retrieves her fur coat.
Don Pietro is executed the following morning, though a German officer has to intervene when the Italian firing squad appears reluctant in carrying out the order. The parish altar boys look on and whistles a Resistance tune to Don Pietro, which heartens him. The boys then bow their heads in grief and slowly depart, the city of Rome and the dome of St. Peter's Basilica looming in the background.