| Genre: | Art/Foreign |
| Year: | 1945 |
| Rating: | ? |
| Length: | 101 min |
| Country: | Italy |
| Cast: | Aldo Fabrizzi, Anna Magnani, Marcel Pagliero |
| Credits: | Directed by Roberto Rossellini (Italian with English subtitles) |
| Awards: | 1946 - Best Film at Cannes |
In 1944, in the last days of the German occupation of Italy, Resistance leader Manfredi (Pagliero), fleeing the Gestapo, is given refuge by the pregnant Pina (Magnani). The film that brought the Italian Neo-Realist movement to fruition was concerned with capturing, as directly as possible, the experiences of ordinary people caught in political events. Using a documentary approach and filming with minimal resources in the streets and apartments of Rome, Rossellini achieves an immediacy and intensity that audiences had never previously witnessed.
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