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Rome: Free City (1946)

Rome: Free City (1946)

Drama
Release Date: 1946, December 17
Directors: Marcello Pagliero
Countries: Italy
Production: Pao Film, Pao Film, Fincine, Fincine
Cast: Valentina Cortese, Marisa Merlini, Nando Bruno, Andrea Checchi, Ave Ninchi, Manlio Busoni, Fedele Gentile, Francesco Grandjacquet, Gar Moore

Overview:

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.

Keywords:

amnesia cat burglar rome, italy post world war ii suicide attempt