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Rome: Free City (1946)
Directed by Marcello Pagliero
Drama · 1h 21m
In a post-war Rome of 1946, a cat burglar inadvertently saves the life of a would-be suicide man who has returned from the war to find that he has been betrayed by his fiancée. From that moment the thief takes the ex-soldier under his wing. They leave the house together for a night full of misadventures. In the streets of Rome they meet a struggling typist who can’t pay her rent and opts for streetwalking; and a wandering amnesiac who lost his memory and keeps asking everyone “Do you recognize me?”.
Cast
Valentina Cortese
La ragazza
Andrea Checchi
Il giovane
Nando Bruno
Il ladro
Marisa Merlini
Mara
G
Gar Moore
Lo statunitense
Vittorio De Sica
Il signore distinto
M
Manlio Busoni
Il falsario
Fedele Gentile
Il ricettatore
Francesco Grandjacquet
Il padrone della bisca
R
Rossano Licari
Ave Ninchi
L'affittacamere
Ennio Flaiano
Il questorino (uncredited)
Crew
- Director
- Marcello Pagliero
- Screenplay
- Cesare Zavattini, Marcello Pagliero, Suso Cecchi d'Amico, Marcello Marchesi, Luigi Filippo D'Amico
- Director of Photography
- Aldo Tonti
- Original Music Composer
- Nino Rota
- Editor
- Giuliana Attenni
- Producer
- Marcello D'Amico
Details
- Original title
- Roma città libera
- Release date
- 1946-12-17
- Runtime
- 1h 21m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- IT
- Spoken languages
- Italian, English
- Countries
- Italy
- Production
- Pao Film, Fincine