Roma, Città Aperta | Rome, Open City (1945) (English Sub Titles) War | Drama | Thriller | Italy | Italian with English Sub Titles | Black & White | 103 Minutes Director Roberto Rossellini Cast Aldo Fabrizi, Anna Magnani, Marcello Pagliero 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, but is Accidentally Betrayed by A Former Lover. This was Roberto Rossellini’s Revelation, A Harrowing Drama about the Nazi Occupation of Rome and the Brave Few Who Struggled against It. Though Told with More Melodramatic Flair than the Films that would Follow It to Form The War Trilogy and Starring Some Well Known Actors Aldo Fabrizi as A Priest Helping the Partisan Cause and Anna Magnani in her Breakthrough Role as the Fiancée of A Resistance Member  Rome Open City is A Shockingly Authentic Experience, Conceived and Directed amid the Ruin of World War II, with Immediacy in Every Frame. Marking A Watershed Moment in Italian Cinema, this Galvanic Work Garnered Awards around … Meer lezen over Roberto Rossellini – Roma, Città Aperta | Rome, Open City (1945) (English Sub Titles)