Rome: Free City

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.

Cast

Valentina Cortese

La ragazza

Andrea Checchi

Il giovane

Nando Bruno

Il ladro

Marisa Merlini

Mara

Gar Moore

Lo statunitense

Vittorio De Sica

Il signore distinto

Manlio Busoni

Il falsario

Fedele Gentile

Il ricettatore

Francesco Grandjacquet

Il padrone della bisca

Rossano Licari