Roma, Città Aperta
Date: 1945
Director: Roberto Rossellini
Production Company: Excelsa Films
Stars: Aldo Fabrizzi, Anna Magnani, Marcello Pagliero, Vito Annichiarico
Location(s): Rome
Region(s): Italy
Storyline:
Resistance leader, Giorgio Manfredi being chased by the Gestapo turns to his friend for help. Together with his soon to be wife and the local priest they assist Manfredi is provided with a new identity, only to be betrayed by his lover.
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Rome street scene, outside a bakery, after all this time is it still there?
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Suburbs of Rome, street leading to a large piazza. Steve Randall has researched various internet sources and found that this is looking southwards along Via Montecuccoli in Rome.
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Kids playing football in an enclosed courtyard, seemingly attached to a church in Rome. The courtyard of the Church of Sant'Elena, at Via Casilina 205, Rome. Steve Randall confirmed the location by matching the brickwork in neighbouring Via Avellino, seen over the wall.
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Church facade in the streets of Roma suburbs. Steve Randall found the Church of Sant'Elena, at Via Casilina 205, Rome in Lazio.
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Unknown.
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A main junction in the outskirts or Rome, the war damage still very much visible.
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Shop fronts in a narrow lane, how does it look 60 years on?
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Steve Randall advises that this view is taken from around 138 Circonvallazione Casilina, Rome.
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Along a railway siding with an unusual curved office block.
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Looking southwards along Via Montecuccoli, Rome discovered by Steve Randall.
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More of Via Montecuccoli identified by Steve Randall.
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Steve Randall locates this scene as taking place on Via Montecuccoli in Rome.
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Close up view of the entrance to the apartment block, is this distinctive doorway still there? Yes it is . . . in the courtyard at Via Montecucolli 17 as found by Steve Randall.
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The entrance to Via Montecuccoli 17 identified by Steve Randall.
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Possibly the park just visible previously.
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Steve Randall found that we're back in the courtyard of the Church of Sant'Elena, at Via Casilina 205.
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Francesco is walking along Via Avellino, in the direction of Via Casilina. Location found by Steve Randall.
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Via Casilina, at the corner of Via Avellino identified by Steve Randall.
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View of Rome.