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Plot

In keeping with his previous film Generale Della Rovere, filmmaker Robert Rossellini pursues a wartime theme in his 145-minute "personal epic" Era Notte a Roma. The story concerns three Allied POWS, who escape from their camp and hide out in Rome. The trio is given shelter by a beautiful young woman. With something tangible to fight over, the three prisoners' national chauvinism (one is Russian, one English, one American) simmers to a boil. For reasons which remain obscure, Era Notte a Roma was never given a widespread American release.
MPAA Rating:
Genre(s):
Drama
Run Time:
145min.
Director(s):
Roberto Rossellini
Starring:
Giovanna Ralli , Sergei Bondarchuk , Leo Genn , Peter Baldwin , Renato Salvatori
Themes:
Life Under Occupation,Women During Wartime
Tone:
Rousing,Tense,Visceral
Keywords:
POW/MIA,captive,captor,concentration-camp,enemy,escape,hidden,war
Country of Origin:
Italy (07-31-1960)
Language:
Italian