It's the "Open City" in the title of Rossellini's film about the German occupation
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Open city - Wikipedia  Manila was declared an open city in December 1941 to avoid its destruction as Imperial Japan invaded the Commonwealth of the Philippines. In war, in the event of the imminent capture of a city, the government/military structure of the ... The German Wehrmacht did not respect the open city status and heavily bombed the...
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Rome, Open City - IMDb  Drama ... Directed by Roberto Rossellini. ... During the Nazi occupation of Rome in 1944, resistance leader Giorgio Manfredi is ... Related lists from IMDb users. list image. War Films. a list of 28 titles ..... Don Pietro: It's not hard to die well.
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Rome, Open City - Wikipedia  Rome, Open City (Italian: Roma citt aperta) is a 1945 Italian neorealist drama film directed by Roberto Rossellini. In its English subtitled release it was named Open City. The picture features Aldo Fabrizi, Anna Magnani and Marcello Pagliero, and is set in Rome during the Nazi occupation in 1944. ... The title refers to Rome being declared an open city after 14 August 1943.
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Open City | film by Rossellini [1945] | Britannica.com  Italian Neorealist film, released in 1945, that portrayed life in Nazi -occupied Rome during World War II. ... Alternative Titles: Roma, citt aperta, Rome, Open City ... became one of its defining works, influencing numerous later filmmakers.
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Rome, Open City Reviews & Ratings - IMDb  Rome, Open City More at IMDbPro Roma citt aperta (original title) ... of the Italian Resistance movement and its struggle against Nazi occupation. ... Rossellini called 'Rome, Open City' a film about 'fear, everyone's fear, but above all my own.' .... During the Nazi occupation of Rome, the resistance leader Giorgio Manfredi...
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List of films set in Berlin - Wikipedia  Berlin is a major center in the European and German film industry. It is home to more than 1000 ... M, 1931 - Berlin thriller by Fritz Lang; beginnings of film noir and the endings of ... of other Great powers unsuccessfully try to prevent Europe from World War I. ..... Berliner Bettwurst, 1973/1975 - by Rosa von Praunheim. 1974.
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Roberto Rossellini - IMDb  Director (51 credits). 1977 Beaubourg, centre d'art et de culture Georges Pompidou (Documentary). 1977 Concerto per Michelangelo...
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[TMP] "Great Great War Films & TV" Topic - The Miniatures Page  Paths of Glory (Kubrick/Kirk Douglas) .... I haven't seen it, but here's one for your Eastern Front list: The Good Soldier Schweik (1960).
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FILM VIEW - NEW YORK CITY'S PROBLEMS ARE IN THE PICTURE ...  Jul 2, 1989 ... Everyone in ''Ghostbusters II'' feels overworked, underpaid, put upon, ready ... recognized that it is the stuff of comedy as well as of melodrama. ... In the initial sequence of ''Manhattan,'' Woody Allen, the poet ... us the opening bars of ''Rhapsody in Blue'' accompanied by a couple of aerial shots of the city.
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955 (97). Hitler  ein Film aus Deutschland / Our Hitler / Hitler: a Film ...  Feb 24, 2009 ... Hans-Jrgen Syberberg's Hitler: A Film from Germany is the most ... that when a section was previewed at Cannes in 1977, the film was virtually ... A seven-hour-long film about Hitler caused quite a stir when it was shown in New .... does it mean to make this significance over-explicit in post-war Germany?
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Open Your Eyes (1997 film) - Wikipedia  Abre los ojos (English: Open Your Eyes) is a 1997 Spanish film co-written, co-scored and ... At the end of the film he elects to wake up and be resurrected. ... Director Cameron Crowe's film Vanilla Sky (2001) is a remake of Open Your Eyes.
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LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL Revisited - FilmBuffOnline  I know Roberto Benigni's tragic/comic Holocaust film is wildly popular with audiences. ... Furthermore, I do not intend to be fair towards La Vita e bella. ... of prisoners from the Sobibor concentration camp, or even Schindler's List, .... his father told him incorrectly because nothing in Life Is Beautiful has the ring of truth to it.
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BIZET'S 'CARMEN' FROM FRANCESCO ROSI - NYTimes.com  Published: September 20, 1984 ... It's titled ''Bizet's Carmen'' to distinguish it from all of the other ''Carmens'' ... Julia Migenes-Johnson, in the title role; Placido Domingo as Don Jose, the ... Micaela is more a function of the plot than a character, but Miss ... (Paris)/Opera Film Produzione (Rome); released by Triumph Films.
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Metropolis | Kino Lorber | Foreign Film | Movie Review | 1927  Jul 31, 2015 ... Fritz Lang's 1927 expressionist science-fiction epic Metropolis was one of the ... It's bleak vision of a dystopian future of human despair, and it's themes .... After telling Josaphat of his time in the workers' city, Freder leaves for the ... The evil lusty Maria, (portrayed with her left eye drooping slightly) is ordered...
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Roberto Rossellini facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com ...  1) Marcella de Marquis (marriage annulled), two children; 2) actress Ingrid Bergman, ... three children, including actress Isabella; 3) screenwriter Somali Das Gupta ... directed first feature, La nave bianca, 1940; technical director in official film ... Roma, citt aperta (Rome, Open City) (+ co-sc) ..... His father was an architect.
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Mr. & Mrs. Bridge (1990) - IMDb  Drama  Set during World War II, an upper-class family begins to fall apart due to the ... Videos. Mr. & Mrs. Bridge -- Open-ended Trailer from Unknown...
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Review of Metropolis by Roger Ebert - Ebertfest  Stirred by the visionary power of "Dark City," I revisited Fritz Lang's ... Generally considered the first great science-fiction film, "Metropolis" (1926) fixed for the rest ... the image of a futuristic city as a hell of scientific progress and human despair.
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IMDb: My Top 100 Films - a list by double-788-292821  Sep 11, 2013 ... I can clearly remember the day that I saw this movie for the first time. ... his Nazi associates gave Spielberg a focal point of conscience and humanity ... The early life and career of Vito Corleone in 1920s New York is ... But even with him and a number of truly brilliant actors, this is ..... Director: Sir David Lean
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Classic 40s Movie: Bicycle Thieves  filmdesigns  Sep 21, 2015 ... Movie Title: Bicycle Thieves (released in the US as The Bicycle Thief) Year: ... Plot summary: In post-WWII Rome lines of the poor are everywhere: at public ... Leading Italian filmmaker De Sica  who would go on to win many major ... other items  all showing the hardship of Italian people in the late 1940s.
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Casablanca: 1943 Best Picture  Fikkle Fame  Jul 27, 2014 ... AFRICAN CITIES $5,000 (Daily Double): As luck would have it, the 1942 film named for this city opened 3 weeks after the Allies landed there
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Bicycle Thieves (1948) - IMDb  Drama  Set in Post-WWII Italy, a working class man's bicycle is stolen. He and his son set out to find it.