Thu Dec 17 · 4:00pm
Rome, Open City (1945)
In occupied Rome in 1944, the Resistance leader Giorgio Manfredi is hunted by the Gestapo and helped by a parish priest, Don Pietro, and by Pina, a widow about to remarry. Rossellini shot the 1945 film there months after the liberation, from a script written with Sergio Amidei and Federico Fellini; Anna Magnani plays Pina and Aldo Fabrizi the priest. It shared the Grand Prix at the first Cannes festival.