The film is the second part of master Rossellini's post-war trilogy, the first being " Rome, Open City " and the last being " Germania, anno zero ". The founder of Neorealism , Rossellini used almost no script and explicitly rejected the use of soundstages, costumes, makeup and professional actors. The film consists of 6 short stories. The background is some folk stories caused by the Allied forces breaking through the German army after the landing in Italy in the late World War II and attacking from the south to the north. Rossellini recreated the real encounters of American soldiers, guerrillas, monks, prostitutes, and ordinary civilians in those war-torn years in front of the camera. The film is interspersed with many real war scenes, making the audience feel empathy.
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Extended Reading
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Italian Woman (episode IV: Firenze): Your wife's worried and says to come down.
Renato (episode IV: Firenze): It's fine up here! I can't budge now. Tell her to send up my helmet.
Italian Woman (episode IV: Firenze): All right.
Renato (episode IV: Firenze): [to Harriet and Massimo] Just for the sun, not the bullets. Those I can dodge to the inch. I fought in the *real* war, back in 1918!
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Fra' Raffaele (episode V: Appennino Emiliano): [after being given a Hershey's chocolate bar] Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. My deepest thanks. I'll say a special prayer to our Holy Mother for your spiritual and temporal aid.