Rome, Open City

Rome, Open City
Theatrical release poster
Italian	Roma città aperta
Directed by	Roberto Rossellini
Screenplay by	Sergio Amidei Federico Fellini Alberto Consiglio Roberto Rossellini
Story by	Sergio Amidei
Based on	Stories of Yesteryear by Sergio Amidei Alberto Consiglio
Produced by	Giuseppe Amato Ferruccio De Martino Roberto Rossellini Rod E. Geiger
Starring	Aldo Fabrizi
Cinematography	Ubaldo Arata
Edited by	Eraldo Da Roma Jolanda Benvenuti
Music by	Renzo Rossellini
Distributed by	Minerva Film (Italy) Joseph Burstyn & Arthur Mayer (U.S.)
Release date	27 September 1945 (1945-09-27)
Running time	105 minutes
Country	Italy
Languages	Italian German
Box office	$1 million(US Rentals)[1] $3 million(US）[2]

Rome, Open City (Italian: Roma città aperta), also released as Open City,^[3] is a 1945 Italian neorealist war drama film directed by Roberto Rossellini and co-written by Sergio Amidei, Celeste Negarville and Federico Fellini. Set in Rome in 1944, the film follows a diverse group of characters coping under the Nazi occupation, and centers on a Resistance fighter trying to escape the city with the help of a Catholic priest. The title refers to the status of Rome as an open city following its declaration as such on 14 August 1943. The film is the first in Rosselini's "Neorealist Trilogy", followed by Paisan (1946) and Germany, Year Zero (1948).

Open City is considered one of the most important and representative works of Italian neorealism, and an important stepping stone for Italian filmmaking as a whole. It was one of the first post-war Italian pictures to gain major acclaim and accolades internationally, winning the prestigious Palme d'Or at the 1946 Cannes Film Festival^[4] and being nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar at the 19th Academy Awards. It launched director Rosselini, screenwriter Fellini, and actress Anna Magnani into the international spotlight.

In 2008, the film was included on the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage’s 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that "have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978".^[5]