Today, we explore this question further with Rome, Open City (Roma città aperta), directed by Roberto Rossellini and released to Italian audiences in 1945. Rossellini made the film just after the ...

Celebrating its 70th anniversary, “Rome, Open City” is a world cinema landmark, but that dusty, respectful word does not do justice to a film that has not lost its power to surprise and even ...

filmmaker Roberto Rossellini began work on Rome, Open City. The project would become one of the best and most important films about World War 2. Originally conceived as two documentaries set ...