Rome Open City
History, Italian Style
June 4 - 25
The film that announced Italian neorealism—and Roberto Rossellini and Anna Magnani as major forces in international cinema—this devastating look at life in Nazi-occupied Rome sent shockwaves through the world and retains its devastating, paradigm-shifting power.
The film that announced Italian neorealism—and Roberto Rossellini and Anna Magnani as major forces in international cinema—Rome Open City sent shockwaves through the world upon its release. By taking his camera onto the rubble-strewn streets of Nazi-occupied Italy, Rossellini captured the horrors of life during wartime with an urgent, hitherto unseen immediacy, while Magnani—defiantly unglamorous, raw, and real—became the symbol of a new naturalism. She plays a mother and bride-to-be who is among a cross section of working-class Italians caught in a Nazi dragnet as the SS scours Rome for a leader in the resistance movement. More than 70 years after its arrival, Rome Open City retains its devastating power, a historical film document that itself shifted film history in immeasurable ways.
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