Other Titles • Rome, Open City • Roma, città aperta • Open City (1946)
Trivia from Rome, Open City (1945)
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Filmed on location in the war torn streets of Rome, Italy, in 1945.
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Roberto Rossellini and his colleagues came up with the idea for ROME, OPEN CITY while they were in hiding during the Nazi occupation of Rome. They shared an apartment with one of the leaders of the Resistance, and based the screenplay on actual events relayed to them by members of the underground. The character of the priest, Don Pietro, was based on a real-life clergyman, Father Don Morosini, who was murdered by the Germans during World War II.
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Rossellini says of OPEN CITY'S production: "We began our film only two months after the liberation of Rome....We shot it in the same settings in which the events we recreated had taken place. In order to pay for my film I sold my bed, then a chest of drawers and a mirrored wardrobe.... [It] was shot silent, not by choice but by necessity.... After the film was edited, the actors dubbed their own voices."
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