The read
Critics rate it 24 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 86% of the 414 1940s drama movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
Six stories unfold in various regions, from Sicily to the northern Po Valley as American military personnel interact with a variety of Italian locals over eighteen months in the push north during the Italian Campaign of WWII as German forces retreat.
Ratings
IMDb7.6/10
Rotten Tomatoes100%
Critics rate it 24 points higher than audiences do.
364 audience votes
Key crew
- Renzo RosselliniOriginal Music Composer
- Roberto RosselliniScreenplay
- Federico FelliniScreenplay
- Roberto RosselliniDirector
- Sergio AmideiScreenplay
- Vasco PratoliniWriter
- Klaus MannScreenplay
- Rod E. GeigerScreenplay
Cast
- Carmela SazioCarmela
- Robert Van LoonJoe
- Benjamin EmanuelAmerican Soldier
- Raymond CampbellAmerican Soldier
- Harold WagnerHarry, a German soldier
- Albert HeinzeGerman soldier
- Merlin BerthMerlin, American Soldier
- Mats CarlsonSwede, an American soldier
- Leonard ParrishAn American soldier
- Dots JohnsonAmerican MP
- Alfonsino PascaPasquale
- Maria MichiFrancesca
