Open City is a landmark in film history. Filmed in secrecy during the Nazi occupation of Italy, the film shows a realistic portrayal of the underground resistance in Italy in 1945. The film has strong impacting imagery with it’s mix of fiction and reality that strengthened Italian Neo-realism and the film industry.

Winner- Best Picture Cannes Film Festival

Acclaimed as "Europe's first post-war masterpiece," and winner of the Best Picture Award at the 1946 Cannes Film Festival, Roberto Rossellini's OPEN CITY (Roma, Citta Aperta) stars the incomparable Anna Magnani & Aldo Fabrizi as an impoverished mother-to-be & a parish priest whose loyalties are tested by the sinister German forces that occupy their homeland during World War II.