Pagliero, Marcello 1907-1980

Open city ( Visual )
7 editions published between 1980 and 2007 in Italian and held by 791 libraries worldwide
The loyalties of an impoverished mother-to-be and a parish priest are tested by the German forces which occupy their homeland during World War II.

Roma, città aperta ( Visual )
13 editions published between 1945 and 2009 in Italian and German and held by 199 libraries worldwide
When the Nazis occupied Rome, a brave few fought against it. An underground agent who is cornered by the Germans in a certain quarter of Rome, flees the Germans. In the course of his flight he imperils his resistance friends.

Paisà ( Visual )
4 editions published between 1992 and 2010 in Italian and held by 173 libraries worldwide
Six vignettes follow the Allied invasion from July 1943 to winter 1944, from Sicily north to Venice. Communication is fragile. A woman leads an Allied patrol through a mine field, she dies protecting a G.I. but the Yanks think she killed him. A street urchin steals shoes from a G.I. who tracks him to a shanty town. A G.I. meets a woman the day Rome is liberated, in six months they meet again. A U.S. nurse braves the trip across the Arno into German fire in search of a partisan she loves. Three chaplains, including a Jew, call on a monastery north in the Apennines. Allied soldiers and partisans try to escape capture in the marshes of the Po.

Roma, cittá aperta Rome ville ouverte by Roberto Rossellini ( Visual )
3 editions published between 1945 and 1999 in French and Italian and held by 37 libraries worldwide
Extrait du résumé figurant sur la jaquette : Témoignage brut et sans concession de la résistance du peuple romain face à l'occupant allemand, Rome ville ouverte est animé d'un souci d'authenticité rarement atteint par le septième art. S'inspirant de faits réels, tourné à chaud dans un style documentaire débarrassé des oripeaux mélodramatiques traditionnels, le chef-d'œuvre de Rossellini est considéré à juste titre comme le premier film "néo-réaliste", ouvrant la voie à un des courants majeurs du cinéma mondial.

Roma citta libera ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2006 in Italian and held by 36 libraries worldwide
Post-war Rome is the setting for this lyrical and heartbreaking character study of bitterness, loneliness and reconciliation in the months following Italy's liberation by the Allies.

Open city ( Visual )
4 editions published between 2000 and 2009 in 3 languages and held by 24 libraries worldwide
Based on real events that took place in Nazi-occupied Italy in 1944, the film examines the choices that people are forced to make in wartime.

Roma città libera la notte porta consiglio ( Visual )
2 editions published in 2006 in Italian and held by 17 libraries worldwide
Post-war Rome is the setting for a lyrical and heartbreaking character study of bitterness, loneliness and reconciliation in the months following Italy's liberation by the Allies.

Desiderio ( Visual )
2 editions published between 1946 and 2006 in Italian and held by 8 libraries worldwide
A young prostitute, weary of her life in Milan, returns to her native village in the country to seek a better life. She meets a young man who offers hope, but family jealousies lead to violence.

Dédée d'Anvers ( Visual )
4 editions published between 1985 and 2006 in French and held by 3 libraries worldwide

Les jeux sont faits ( Visual )
3 editions published between 1947 and 1994 in German and French and held by 3 libraries worldwide