ITALIAN CINEMA NIGHT: Rome, Open City (1945)

Come join us for Italian Cinema Night! This week is Rome, Open City (1945)

Rome, Open City is a 1945 Italian neorealist war drama 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 Rome being declared an open city after August, 14 1943. It forms the first part of Rosselini's ‘Neorealist Trilogy,’ followed by Paisan (1946) and Germany, Year Zero (1948).