Some background about the movie

Ethyl 2022-09-29 22:25:39

The script for "Rome, the Undefended City" was written almost verbatim by Rossellini and Armité, based on the dictation of a resistance leader.
After the liberation, Rossellini immediately started to shoot this film.
He made this film , which reproduced the scene at the place where the incident happened, without the permission of the film and the funds.
The authenticity, modernity and "contemporary" of the film break through the old frame of the screen.
The great international success of the film established Neorealism and Italian cinema around the world.
——Excerpted from Sadur's "World Film History"

, although the characters in the film are not necessarily Communist International underground parties, they do provide many examples for domestic filming of this type of film.

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Rome, Open City quotes

  • Pina: I've led a bad life. I've done so much I shouldn't have. You think I'm not ashamed to be married in my condition? But you'd never understand. There are things you do without thinking, that you don't feel like you're doing wrong. I was so in love and he was so good, so decent. I know he could have found someone better, a young girl, not a penniless widow with a child who had to sell everything just to get by. And life just keeps getting harder. How will will we ever forget all this suffering, anxiety and fear?

  • Pina: Doesn't Christ see us?

    Don Pietro: So many people ask me that: "Doesn't Christ see us?" But are we sure we haven't deserved this scourge? Are we sure we've always lived according to the Lord's laws? People never think of changing their ways, but when the piper must be paid, they despair and ask, "Doesn't the Lord see us? Doesn't he take pity on us?" Yes, he does, but we have so much to be forgiven for, and for that we must pray and forgive many things.

    Pina: You're right, but how do we forgive? I see those guys and I want to smash their faces in.