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WWII Italy: the Allies are being stymied at Monte Cassino and the Nazis are ever more vicious

Posted by tinear on March 21, 2012 at 08:39:18:
in putting down partisans. Into this fierce situation, three Allied POW soldiers, recently escaped, try to avoid capture as they await liberation from their comrades. Smuggled by sympathetic Italians from house to house, they end up in Rome, taken in by a beautiful woman who makes her living as a black marketeer. But it is one thing to hide 3 men in a farming community and quite another in a city swarming with German and Italian Nazis.
More than far better known films, this Roberto Rossellini gem punches you in the chest with what it meant to risk one's life for others whom you didn't know. The deeply beautiful Giovanna Ralli gives a magisterially quiet and realistic performance, creating a complex and all-too-human portrait of a troubled soul.
This film was made immediately after the war when the wounds were still fresh.
"Escape by Night" deserves to be ranked with "Open City."