![Rome: Free City](https://i3.wp.com/image.tmdb.org/t/p/w185/9juftMQ1FHcEmPk3ely0yyr3x4s.jpg)
Plot
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.
Writer | Suso Cecchi d'Amico |
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Director | Marcello Pagliero |
Actor | Valentina Cortese, Andrea Checchi, Nando Bruno |
Country | Italy |
Production | Pao Film |