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Rome: Free City

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.

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Directors

> Marcello Pagliero (Director)
> Aldo Tonti (Director of Photography)
> Luigi Filippo D'Amico (First Assistant Director)

Writers

> Cesare Zavattini (Screenplay)
> Marcello Pagliero (Screenplay)
> Suso Cecchi d'Amico (Screenplay)
> Ennio Flaiano (Story)
> Marcello Marchesi (Screenplay)
> Luigi Filippo D'Amico (Screenplay)