“Today it doesn’t feel like a documentary at all. It’s a street opera, caught on camera during wartime, a story performed by a mixed cast of amazing professionals and earnest non-professionals. ”
During the Nazi occupation of Rome, resistance leader Luigi Ferrari is pursued by Major Fritz Bergmann, a German intelligence officer who wants the name of others in the underground movement. Ferrari enlists the help of sympathetic priest Don Pietro Pellegrini to pass on funds to the fighters in case he is captured… Shot on location in the ruins of war-torn Rome, using a cast of largely non-professional actors, Rome, Open City is a landmark of the neorealism film movement and a classic of world cinema.
