#206 – Rome, Open City, (Roma città aperta), 1945, Roberto Rossellini
ROME, OPEN CITY is a landmark in film history. Filmed in secrecy during the Nazi occupation of Italy, the film shows a realistic portrayal of the underground resistance in Italy in 1945. The film has strong impacting imagery with its mix of fiction and reality that strengthened Italian Neo-realism and the film industry.
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#440 – Paisan, (Paisà), 1946, Roberto Rossellini
Six vignettes follow the Allied invasion from July 1943 to winter 1944, from Sicily north to Venice.
#601 – Germany Year Zero, (Germania anno zero), 1948, Roberto Rossellini
The final film in Rossellini’s war film trilogy (the first two being Rome, Open City and Paisà). Germany Year Zero takes place in post-war Germany, unlike the others, which take place in German-occupied Rome and post-war Italy, respectively. The story follows a twelve-year-old boy, Edmund Kohler, who is mainly left to his own devices in order to survive and to help his family do the same.
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