Presented in a new 4K digital restoration, Rossellini’s remarkable drama Rome, Open City, starring Aldo Fabrizi and Anna Magnani in her breakthrough role, is a towering and powerfully resonant cinematic achievement. Conceived and directed amid the ruin of World War II in Rome, with immediacy in every frame, it follows the resistance leader Giorgio Manfredi, who is chased by the Nazis as he seeks refuge and a way to escape.
Wednesday 20th October
103 min
18+
Anna Magnani, Aldo Fabrizi, Marcello Pagliero, Vito Annichiarico
Roberto Rossellini
Film Festival
Pentridge Cinema