Rome, Open City (1945)
Directed by Roberto Rossellini
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.
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It is also, of course, a film that is in love with the cinema, and those who know and appreciate film history will have a particularly meaningful experience watching the various films that unspool in the little theater, from the neorealist masterpiece Rome, Open City (1945), to Hollywood sword-and-sandal schlock like Ulysses (1954).
A grim movie perhaps, with its abandonment of the usual neo-realist view of children (compare Edmund to Bruno in De Sica's Bicycle Thieves (1948); or to the children of Rossellini's own Rome, Open City, but a great one: Rossellini provides a fitting end to both the trilogy and his 'pure' neo-realist period.
Germany Year Zero (1947) leaves Italy for the rubble of Berlin for a devastating portrait of post-World War II Germany, where an impoverished little boy falls under the sway of an unreformed Nazi whose propagandistic teachings results in terrible consequences, and Criterion masters its disc from the German version of the film.
Rome Open City is available exclusively as part of the three-disc “Roberto Rossellini’s War Trilogy” box set (SRP $99.95), which also includes Paisan (1946) and Germany Year Zero (1948).
The films that followed, City, Paisan and Germany Year Zero, were likewise deeply humanistic stories that are as inspiring now as they were 75 years ago, not least because of the humor.
Rome Open City Criterion Collection DVD Rome Open City is available exclusively as part of the three-disc “Roberto Rossellini’s War Trilogy” box set (SRP $99.95), which also includes Paisan (1946) and Germany Year Zero (1948).