Rome, Open City

Rome, Open City

Our battle has barely begun.

1945104 min8.0 / 10

A gritty, humanistic portrait of resistance and survival under Nazi occupation, grounded in the lived reality of ordinary people caught in extraordinary moral peril.

During the Nazi occupation of 1944 Rome, Resistance leader Giorgio Manfredi is pursued by the Nazis as he seeks refuge and a means of escape.

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