Roberto Rossellini, who co-founded Rice Cinema, directed this 1945 drama about a resistance fighter in Nazi-occupied Rome who takes refuge with a young couple. Considered a landmark in Italian Neorealism and postwar European cinema, Rome Open City won the Grand Prize at Cannes in 1946.
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This article appears in Jan 15-21, 2015.