Open City (1946)
Open City (1946)
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Critic Consensus: Open City fills in the familiar contours of its storyline with three-dimensional characters and a narrative depth that add up to a towering -- and still powerfully resonant -- cinematic achievement.
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Cast

as Marcello
as Pina

as Giorgio Manfredi

as Marina
as Don Pietro Pellegrini

as Maj. Bergmann

as Francesco

as Ingrid

as Marcello Pina's Son

as Lauretta

as Sergeant
as Agostino

as Police Superintendent

as Chief of Police

as Hartmann

as Austrian Deserter

as Policeman

as Landlady
Critic Reviews for Open City
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Handheld cameras tremble with the urgency of open wounds and violent emotion in Roberto Rossellini's 1945 drama of the Italian resistance to the capital's occupation by Nazi Germany.

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 shock.
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.
This much of the film is standard hero and villain stuff. But what makes picture good is the story of other characters involved in the tragedy.
Much is devastating -- but Rossellini found room, too, for the humour and warmth of everyday life.
A classic of historic importance.

Audience Reviews for Open City
This quintessential classic of Italian Neorealism is an unsettling and hard-hitting portrait of an era, shot in a gritty documentary-like style and with a gallery of fascinating characters that represent, each of them, a facet of Roman society under Nazi German occupation.
Super Reviewer
altho not the first nor the definitive neorealist film, it was the one that caught the world's attention. filmed in the streets under difficult circumstances shortly after rome's liberation and still thrilling to watch, the film follows resistance fighters and ordinary people trying to get on with their lives in the wake of nazi occupation. the criterion edition with high def digital transfer looks terrific. if you've tried watching this before but was put off by poor picture quality and bad subtitles check it out now :)

Super Reviewer
A great early Italian Neo-Realism film, a must see.
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