Rome, Open City (12A) On the Big Screen at South Hill Park
Thu, 03 Oct
|Bracknell
The overwhelming experience of 1945 was “Rome, Open City”, it made every movie made until then seem old-fashioned and artificial, or so it seemed at the time - David Shipman in his book Cinema: The First Hundred Years
Time & Location
03 Oct 2024, 19:00
Bracknell, Ringmead, Bracknell RG12 7PA, UK
About the Event
Directed by Roberto Rossellini | Drama | 103 mins | Italy | 1945 | Italian with subtitles
Anna Magnani, Aldo Fabrizi, Marcello Pagliero
The film centres on the Resistance activities of Manfredi (Marcello Pagliero), the communist leader of the National Liberation Committee, during the 1944 German occupation of Rome. Attempting to avoid capture by the Gestapo, he seeks the help of Don Pietro (Aldo Fabrizi), a Catholic priest, and Pina (Anna Magnani), the pregnant fiancée of a fellow resistance fighter. In telling their story, Rossellini shows us the reality of daily life during the occupation, and paints a sympathetic portrait of the Italian civilians who fought against their cruel German occupiers. The agonies of this daily life was something that Rossellini and his team knew all too well, having lived through it themselves.
Unsparing in its depiction of the heavy price of both resistance and collaboration with the Nazi occupation GUARDIAN