Wednesday, 22 January 2014

Rome, Open City (1945) - Realism



Rome, Open City, also known as Roma, Citta Aperta is a black and white Italian War drama film based on a true story written by Serigio Amidei and directed by Roberto Rossellini in 1945. The film also consists of on screen English subtitles. It is set during the Nazi occupation in Rome in 1944 and was nominated for the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar at the 19th Academy Awards. 


Rome, Open City has largely used non-professional actors. There has been no set used but different plots as the central characters die.


The Real locations and non-professional actors used within Rome, Open City have been used to help with the realism. Through the film, we see a handheld camera being used in the football sequence to help the audience feel more involved with what is going on within the film. There also is ordinary and working class people and a partly improvised script to help connect to the lives of the audience.





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