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Rome, Open City [DVD] [1945]

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Aldo Fabrizi (Actor), Anna Magnani (Actor), Roberto Rossellini (Director, Producer) Rated: Suitable for 15 years and over Format: DVD
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  • Actors: Aldo Fabrizi, Anna Magnani, Marcello Pagliero, Maria Michi, Harry Feist
  • Directors: Roberto Rossellini
  • Producers: Roberto Rossellini, Guiseppe Amato, Ferruccio De Martino, Rod E. Geiger
  • Format: PAL
  • Language: Italian
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 4:3 - 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Arrow
  • DVD Release Date: 11 April 2005
  • Run Time: 103 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0007D5GC2
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 62,913 in DVD & Blu-ray (See Top 100 in DVD & Blu-ray)

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Roberto Rossellini directs this 1940s drama about the last days of the Nazi occupation of Italy during World War II. Resistance leader Giorgio Manfredi (Marcello Pagliero) flees the Gestapo and seeks a place to hide with the help of his friend Francesco (Francesco Grandjacquet), his pregnant fiancée Pina (Anna Magnani) and the priest who is due to marry them, Don Pietro Pellegrini (Aldo Fabrizi). Giorgio's ex-girlfriend Marina (Maria Michi) betrays him and his fellow fighters to the Gestapo in order to get her hands on some luxury items and it's not long before the Nazis and the local police find him and Don Pietro. They are captured and tortured but will they crack under the pain or be executed for their silence?

Review

Rossellini's study of resistance, shot in war-ravaged Rome in 1945, is a masterpiece.***** --Mark Kermode, Observer

A thrillingly real drama about events fresh in the mind. ***** --Peter Bradshaw, Guardian

Robert Rossellini's post-war melodrama is an uncompromising vision of a proud city in desperate times. ***** --Robbie Collin, Daily Telegraph --This text refers to an alternate DVD edition.

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1.0 out of 5 starsImportant film let down by poor DVD quality
By Picoroco on 23 April 2007
Format: DVD
It is difficult to convey how frustrating it was to watch this dvd. The print used is horrendous - jerky, washed out and full of crackles. The sound too is below acceptable standards. But worst of all, the subtitles are absent for a large part of the dialogue, leaving the viewer confused as to what is actually going on. Great films like this should be treated with much more respect.
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1.0 out of 5 starsA bad DVD of the film, but it has a nice documentary on it
By A Customer on 14 July 2005
Format: DVD
A letter in SIGHT AND SOUND, August 2005:
"Your review of the Region 2 DVD release of ROME, OPEN CITY (S&S JULY) fails to note some significant differences between it and the previously available VHS edition on Connoisseur.
This DVD release is remarkably similar to that currently available in the US, with all its faults. Its opening title card is the US-inspired OPEN CITY, not ROMA CITTA APERTA, nor is it laid over Rossellini's famous vista of the city with the prominent dome of St. Peter's and Rossellini's dedication. This is no mere detail, as the long shot of the city acts as a bookending device and gives weight to the resigned march of the urchins back to the city at the end of the picture. Moreover, a significant cut is made during Manfredi's torture scene which is present in the original European print as reproduced on the Connoisseur video. This cut significantly undermines the power of the sequence and its redemptive ending.
In short, this new release does not do justice to Rossellini's original. Until such time as a more complete original version is available, your readers should be aware of flawed attempts to present this great film's release on DVD as definitive."
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4.0 out of 5 starsGreat film, poor DVD
By Amazon Customer on 10 Feb. 2006
Format: DVD Verified Purchase
If you like world cinema and have an interest in film history then there's plenty to enjoy in this major work of Italian neorealism. But be warned, the picture quality is poor and there are large segments of dialogue which are not translated.
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5.0 out of 5 starsA customer
By Massimo Santilli on 19 Feb. 2010
Format: DVD Verified Purchase
I've bought, first The Amazon.co.uk edition, and then the italian version which is surely very best.
This film is the ultimate expression of neorealism: Film Movement aims to return with great fidelity the tragic reality of the moment, through images and narrative. Intended to occupy a prominent place in film history mondiale.Roberto Rossellini turned "Rome, Open City" between 1944 and 1945 during the last months of World War, creating a masterpiece that is now recognized by all as a kind of movie -symbol of Neorealism. In a troubling climate of continuous raids during the Second World War, in a Rome starving destroyed by war and Nazi occupation in the dignity of a priest (Aldo Fabrizi a memorable), and in the name of freedom, it helps a partisan leader. But because of one infamous traitor, who is using drugs and who attends a long time environments of the "SS", everything falls ... and tragedy within the tragedy takes sopravvento.The film has a strong emotional charge, aligned perfectly with the harsh reality that has not left space unfortunately not even that thin thread of hope for an eventual rebirth and fed only a bitter illusion a better tomorrow. Hope, much sought-after (and wonderfully represented by the great Anna Magnani), but ruthlessly suppressed by atrocious reality. After "Rome, Open City, Rossellini completed the so-called" war trilogy "with" Paisà "(1946) and" Germany Year Zero "(1948) to see ... not to forget ...
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1.0 out of 5 starsUnwatchable due to poor DVD transfer
By lawrence_of_london on 2 Jan. 2011
Format: DVD
This DVD claims to be 'digitally restored' but, as others have pointed out, the quality of the transfer is atrocious. Of course 'digitally restored' could simply mean that the film has been 'restored' from celluloid to DVD -- it certainly doesn't seem to have had any proper restoration work done on it.
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5.0 out of 5 starsCaution - genius at work
By omnigadrum on 3 Aug. 2005
Format: DVD
Roberto Rossellini (1906-1977) entered the world of cinema by making propaganda films for Mussolini, an apprenticeship which would shape his perception of cinematography as an art form which must endeavour to cast off the hydra of State control and political manipulation.
"Roma, citta aperta" is seen as the birth of neorealist cinema - a form characterised by its humanism and attempt to deliver social reality, using authentic locations, handheld cameras, available light, and 'natural' performances from a largely amateur cast. It was the first in Rosselini's trilogy ("Rome, Open City", "Paisàn", and "Germany, Year Zero") exploring the effects of war, and is widely regarded both as his masterpiece and as a pillar of post-War European cinema.
Conceived and begun during the German occupation, while Rossellini was himself in hiding, "Rome, Open City" is set in Nazi-ruled Italy. It takes the camera out of the studio and onto the streets, capturing graphic, near documentary images and transporting the viewer into a world which is apparently real. There is none of Hollywood's glitz and glamour, here, but raw life and bitter social commentary.
German soldiers search for a resistance leader who had fought the Fascists in Spain and who has gone on to organise the underground in Italy. Lest we see this as a tale of good versus evil, Rossellini presents a naturalistic world of Rome, rife with black marketeers, food shortages, exploitation and manipulation, collaboration, and a priest who is evidently not enamoured of the Fascists and who is prepared to work with the communist resistance to defeat what he perceives as the greater evil.Read more ›
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