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Filmed on the streets of Italy immediately after World War II, Rossellini's OPEN CITY (ROMA CITTA APERTA) shows the lives of a group of people living in Rome during the Nazi occupation. Anna Magnani plays a woman in love with a member of a resistance group; in helping him, she risks not only her own life, but also that of her unborn child. Aldo Fabrizi plays a priest who aids the anti-Nazi cause and pays dearly for his activism. Marcello Pagliero is an outspoken communist who runs afoul of the Nazis. And Harry Feist plays a German officer who has taken an Italian lover, but whose affection for Romans does not run especially deep.

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5027035005881
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Product Key Features

Film/TV Title
Rome, Open City
Actor
Anna Magnani, Marcello Pagliero, Aldo Fabrizi
Director
Roberto Rossellini
Subtitle Language
English
Format
DVD
Release Year
2010
Language
Italian
Features
Special Edition\Audio commentary by film scholar Peter Bondanella\'The Children Of ROME, OPEN CITY' Documentary\Roberto Rossellini Documentary\Booklet 'Open City: Reappropriating The Old, Making The New' by Sidney Gottlieb, With Subtitles
Genre
Drama, General
Run Time
102 Mins

Additional Product Features

Certificate
12A/12
Number of Discs
1
Country/Region of Manufacture
Italy
Reviews
Martin Scorsese - For me, the most precious moment of film history., Total Film - Rough and raw, ROME, OPEN CITY has an immediacy that still hits home, The Guardian - Neo-realist brilliance from Rossellini, Time Out - One of the definitive works of the Italian neo-realist period, Empire - Few films have had as seismic an impact on world cinema
Consumer Advice
Contains moderate violence
Additional Information
Roberto Rossellini's OPEN CITY (ROMA CITTA APERTA) is a landmark in the history of cinema, a humanist masterpiece and one of the earliest incarnations of Italian neorealism. Based on real events, it tells the harrowing story of several Italian Resistance fighters battling fascism in Nazi-occupied Rome. When Gestapo agents raid an apartment where Manfredi (Marcello Pagliero), a prominent member of the underground, is hiding, they arrest the young man who gave him refuge. Manfredi manages to escape, then enlists the help of a parish priest, Don Pietro (Aldo Fabrizi), to make a clandestine delivery to other members of the movement. Eventually, Manfredi is betrayed, and he and the priest are quickly captured by the Germans; what follows is one of the most brutally disturbing war torture scenes ever recreated on screen. With OPEN CITY, Rossellini has created a testament to the strength of the human spirit in the face of horrible adversity, in a story that extols the heroism of defiant, ordinary people who strive to hold onto their humanity in the cold, chaotic world of WW II. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Screenplay; Fellini collaborated with Rossellini in the writing of the script. OPEN CITY is all the more remarkable in that it was made immediately following the liberation of Rome, had been developed while Rossellini himself was in hiding, and was filmed in the locations where the true events that the story is based on, occurred.
Movie/TV Title
Rome, Open City
Sound source
Dolby Digital

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2 out of 5 stars
by ste_orra03 Mar, 2018
Beautiful film - Poor quality version
This wonderful film is spoiled by the poor quality of the picture and the inconsistency of the subtitles (which are embedded into the video). Would not recommend this release.
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by robercoo823 Jun, 2017
Rome - Open City
This film is a classic, beautifully filmed and acted to perfection, the despair, anger and bravery of the characters can be felt as if you were there, quite remarkable
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