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Anna Magnani

Acteur

Films

Rome, Open City

Rome, Open City

Door Roberto Rossellini

1945 | 98 min | Klassiekers

Life stories cross, while Rome is occupied by the Nazis. Pina loves Francesco, a clandestine printer. Manfredi is the leader of the Roman resistance movement. Father Pietro, a parish priest, helps the resistance by transmitting messages and money. The Gestapo commander captures both of them, and interrogates Giorgio violently. They attempt to use Pietro’s religious beliefs to convince hi to betray his cause, citing that he allies himself with atheists. Pietro responds that anyone who strives to ...

L'Amore

L'Amore

Door Roberto Rossellini

1947 | 77 min | Klassiekers

"Amore" includes two medium-length films by Rossellini. "The human voice", after Jean Cocteau, shows a woman by her phone waiting for her lover, who has just left her, to call back. "The miracle" features a naive peasant believing she is meeting St. Joseph in the mountains, who is actually only a lying vagabond. She will become pregnant...