Rome: Free City

Name: Rome: Free City
Director: Marcello Pagliero
Released: 1946-12-17
Duration: 81 min
Rating: 4.9
Cast: Valentina Cortese, Andrea Checchi, Nando Bruno, Marisa Merlini, Gar Moore

Dec 17, 1946 · 1h 21m · Drama

⭐ 4.9· 10 votes

Director Marcello Pagliero

Writer Suso Cecchi d'Amico

Overview

In a post-war Rome (1946) a cat burglar inadvertently saves the life of a would-be suicide man who returns from the war to find that he has been betrayed by his fiancée while fighting in the war. From that moment the thief takes the ex-soldier under his wing. They leave house together for a night full of misadventures. In a streets of Rome they meet the struggling typist who can’t pay her rent and opts to street life; a wandering amnesiac who lost his memory and keeps asking everyone “Do you recognize me?”. Thieves, gamblers, hookers, policemen, soldiers and endless chain of cigarette-smoking and alcohol/espresso-drinking.