Rome: Free City

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.

Cast

Valentina Cortese

La ragazza

Andrea Checchi

Il giovane

Nando Bruno

Il ladro

Marisa Merlini

Mara

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Gar Moore

Lo statunitense

Vittorio De Sica

Il signore distinto

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Manlio Busoni

Il falsario

Fedele Gentile

Il ricettatore

Francesco Grandjacquet

Il padrone della bisca

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Rossano Licari

Ave Ninchi

L'affittacamere

Ennio Flaiano

Il questorino (uncredited)