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Rome: Free City (1946)
Plot Summary
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.
Why this could be the movie
- Plot hook: 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.
- Genre cues: Drama
- Director clue: Marcello Pagliero
- Lead cast: Valentina Cortese and Andrea Checchi
How to describe this movie
- Try: "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."
- Try: "A 1946 film directed by Marcello Pagliero about in a postwar Rome 1946 a cat burglar inadvertently saves the life."
- Try: "A movie starring Valentina Cortese and Andrea Checchi about in a postwar Rome 1946 a cat burglar inadvertently saves the life."
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