Rome: Free City
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.
Release Date
December 17, 1946Runtime
81 minGenres
DramaDirected by
Marcello Pagliero, Luigi Filippo D'Amico, Lisa BaglioniScreenplay by
Suso Cecchi d'Amico, Luigi Filippo D'Amico, Marcello Marchesi, Marcello Pagliero, Cesare ZavattiniStory by
Ennio FlaianoLanguage
ItalianBudget
$0Revenue
$0Status
ReleasedCast
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