"Era Notte A Roma"
1960
Directed by Roberto Rossellini

A major film of Roberto Rossellini: three soldiers, an American, Englishman and Russian, having escaped from a concentration camp during the final months of Rome's occupation, are given refuge in a young woman's loft. She and her fiance survive through various black market schemes. A defrocked priest, Tarcisio, suspects the girl's complicity with Allied soldiers, but is willing to go along with it in return for favors. The woman resists, and Tarcisio causes the scattering of the group and the death of the Russian and several compatriots. In his book on Rossellini, Guarner said that from the point of Era Notte a Roma Rossellini no longer merely observed, but began to analyze: "Temporal and spatial leaps occur with utter simplicity and bridge ancient and modern cultures." English, Russian, German and Italian with English subtitles.
145 minutes.