Rome: Free City

In a post-war Rome of 1946, a cat burglar inadvertently saves the life of a would-be suicide man who has returned from the war to find that he has been betrayed by his fiancée. From that moment the thief takes the ex-soldier under his wing. They leave the house together for a night full of misadventures. In the streets of Rome they meet a struggling typist who can’t pay her rent and opts for streetwalking; and a wandering amnesiac who lost his memory and keeps asking everyone “Do you recognize me?”.

Director

Marcello Pagliero

Writers

Cesare Zavattini, Marcello Pagliero, Suso Cecchi d'Amico, Ennio Flaiano, Marcello Marchesi, Luigi Filippo D'Amico

Released

December 17, 1946

Language

Italian