Title:LA LIBERAZIONE DI ROMA : l'entrata trionfale degli Allesti [Main Title]
Film Number:COI 245
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Summary: The Allied entry into Rome, 5 June 1944.
Description: Troops and armour move up, watched by US General Mark Clark (passing 2 couples going to be married); prisoners of war. Rejoicing citizens celebrate German departure/Allied arrival, in various parts of the city; British flags raised on former Gestapo HQ and Barclays Bank; an Italian-US Sergeant from New York embraces a young girl; Clark makes his official entry, is joined by French General Juin; a British officer pays tribute at Unknown Soldier's tomb. San Lorenzo Station, heavily but accurately bombed, illustrates Allied concern to minimise civilian casualties. Parties of Italians fired with anti-Fascism (including group led by Gabriele d'Annunzio's son) storm Fascist HQs and drive collaborators from a radio building; Communist Party offices set up. Huge crowd converges on St Peter's Square and hears Pope Pius XII offer thanks that Rome is spared horrors of war. (Incomplete?) Commentary, Besides praising Allies, attacks Germans and Fascists with some irony (eg on crowd slogans, or comparing 'Marches on Rome') and appeals to Italy's nobler past (Sons of WW1 dead "now fight the same enemy").
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Colour:B&W
Digitised:No
Object_Number:COI 245
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:
Featured Period:1939-1945
Production Date:1944
Production Country: USA (?)
Production Details:
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Clark, Mark Wayne (person)
Juin, Alphonse P (person)
Pius XII, Pope (person)
United States Army (regiment/service)
British Army (regiment/service)
Italian Communist Party (regiment/service)
Keywords: celebrations, Italian - liberation (object name)
combat, Italian - irregular (object name)
prisoners of war, German - surrender (object name)
Italy & Rome, Latium (geography)
Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W
Sound format: Sound
Soundtrack language: Italian
Title language: Italian
Subtitle language: None
Technical Details: Format: 35mm
Number of items/reels/tapes: 1
Footage: 879 ft; Running time: 10 mins
