Rome, Open City

Name: Rome, Open City
Genre: Drama, War
Released: 1945-10-08T00:00:00.000Z
Rating: 8

About Rome, Open City

During the Nazi occupation of 1944 Rome, Resistance leader Giorgio Manfredi is pursued by the Nazis as he seeks refuge and a means of escape.

Rome, Open City is a 1945 war film directed by Roberto Rossellini. Its themes are audacious, drug addiction, resistance, and fascism.

Aldo Fabrizi appears as Don Pietro Pellegrini, Marcello Pagliero as Giorgio Manfredi aka Luigi Ferraris, Harry Feist as Major Fritz Bergmann, and Anna Magnani as Pina. At 104 minutes long, it arrived in October 1945.

The screenplay is by Federico Fellini and Roberto Rossellini. It streams on Artiflix, Criterion Channel, and HBO Max in the United States.

Allied, The Great Escape, and Sophie Scholl: The Final Days make useful companions to Rome, Open City, all filed under 1940s and nazi. TMDB voters put it at 8.0 out of 10 across 1,014 votes.