Rome Open City was probably one of the most popular films of the 1940s. On so many levels this film was able to deliver a powerfull message to its audience. "Rome open City was one of the first major works of Italian neorealist filmmaking and perhaps the single most influential example of the style". According to history this movie was among the first postwar European films to gain a significant audience in the United States. allowing Americans to have a greater appreciation for foreign films. "And politically, it was a work of tremendous bravery". I love war movies or should I say that I find war movies very interesting specially this one. I believe the filmmakers really went above and beyond to reproduce this moment in history and show its audience the reality and the conditions of the war. In fact, "Rossellini began filming in secret, using scavenged film stock without sound equipment, shortly before the city was liberated in June of 1944. Several key members of his creative team had been active in the Italian resistance movement". Rome open city is a movie in form of a documentary, paints the viewers a picture of the lives of different people living in Rome while being occupied by the German Nazis." Anna Magnani is an actress who plays the part of a woman that was helping a member of a resistance group but she ends up falling in love with him. Because she was madly in love, she would risks not only her own life, but also that of her unborn child. "The priest was played by Aldo Fabrizi who aids the anti-Nazi cause and pays dearly for his activism". "Marcello Pagliero is an outspoken communist who runs afoul of the Nazis". And “Harry Feist plays a German officer who has taken an Italian lover, but whose affection for Romans does not run especially deep".
"While Roma, Città Aperta shows flashes of the melodramatic sentimentality that would mark much of Rossellini's later work, it still rings true as a chronicle of a city under siege and as the genesis of a powerful new film style whose influences include such later filmmakers, among many others"
I was just wondering where you get your quotes from? Although they are interesting and I completely agree with the statement that the film had a semi-documentary feeling to it I would've rather known what your opinion was of the film watching it in today's day and age rather than hearing how history stapled the film?
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