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.

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  Valentina Cortese

  La ragazza
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  Andrea Checchi

  Il giovane
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  Nando Bruno

  Il ladro
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  Marisa Merlini

  Mara
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  Vittorio De Sica

  Il signore distinto
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  Fedele Gentile

  Il ricettatore
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  Francesco Grandjacquet

  Il padrone della bisca
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  Ave Ninchi

  L'affittacamere
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  Ennio Flaiano

  Il questorino (uncredited)
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  Camillo Mastrocinque

  Il signore con l'auto (uncredited)