OPEN CITY (1945)

DVD DETAILS: *SUPERIOR* Quality, *FULLY LICENSED*, OFFICIAL South Korean IMPORT Release. ~~~ LANGUAGE: Original ITALIAN w/REMOVABLE English/Korean Subtitles. ~~~This DVD-Video is NTSC Format - Region 0 (REGION FREE) and will Play on ALL North American DVD Players. ~~~SOUND: DOLBY DIGITAL 2.0 SURROUND ~~~ Singlelayer ~~~ FULL SCREEN [4:3]** SYNOPSIS ** - One of the landmark films of the 1940s. The screenplay was written by Roberto Rossellini (with Federico Fellini and Sergio Amidei) while Rome was still occupied by German forces in 1943-44. Rossellini began filming in secret, using scavenged film stock without sound equipment, shortly before the city was liberated in June of 1944. Several key members of his creative team had been active in the Italian resistance movement. With its rough, documentary-style look, multi-layered narrative, the film captured the harsh and unforgiving textures of real life as few movies of its time had dared. It set the pace for Italian Neorealism as an influential postwar film style that combined outdoor light and location shooting with non-actors, a focus on simple stories of everyday life, and a concern for the poor and for social problems. It shows the lives of a group of people living in Rome during the Nazi occupation, after the Germans had declared it an "open city." Anna Magnani plays a woman in love with a member of a resistance group; in helping him, she risks not only her own life, but also that of her unborn child. Aldo Fabrizi plays a priest who aids the anti-Nazi cause and pays dearly for his activism. Marcello Pagliero is an outspoken communist who runs afoul of the Nazis. And Harry Feist plays a German officer who has taken an Italian lover, but whose affection for Romans does not run especially deep. Product Description