Schedule:

5:00 PM: ROME, OPEN CITY

In Italian, German, Latin with English subtitles.

In Rome during World War II, underground resistance leader Manfredi attempts to evade the Gestapo by enlisting the help of Pina, the fiancée of a fellow member of the resistance, and Don Pietro, the priest due to oversee her marriage. But it’s not long before the Nazis and the local police find him.

Format: 35mm

Distributor: Janus Films

Country: Italy

Location: Aero Theatre, 1328 Montana Ave, Santa Monica, CA 90403

Cost: $10.00 (member); $15.00 (general admission)

7:30 PM: PAISAN / GERMANY, YEAR ZERO

PAISAN, 1946, Dir. Roberto Rossellini, 125 Min, Janus Films, Italy

Roberto Rossellini’s follow-up to his breakout Rome Open City was the ambitious, enormously moving Paisan (Paisà), which consists of six episodes set during the liberation of Italy at the end of World War II, and taking place across the Country, from Sicily to the northern Po Valley. With its documentary-like visuals and its intermingled cast of actors and nonprofessionals, Italians and their American liberators, this look at the struggles of different cultures to communicate and of people to live their everyday lives in extreme circumstances is equal parts charming sentiment and vivid reality.

Format: 35mm

GERMANY, YEAR ZERO, 1948, Dir. Roberto Rossellini, 72 Min, Janus Films, Italy

The concluding chapter of Roberto Rossellini’s War Trilogy is the most devastating, a portrait of an obliterated Berlin, seen through the eyes of a twelve-year-old boy. Living in a bombed-out apartment building with his sick father and two older siblings, young Edmund is mostly left to wander unsupervised, getting ensnared in the black-market schemes of a group of teenagers and coming under the nefarious influence of a Nazi-sympathizing ex-teacher. Germany Year Zero (Deutschland im Jahre Null) is a daring, gut-wrenching look at the consequences of fascism, for society and the individual.

Format: 35mm

Location: Aero Theatre, 1328 Montana Ave, Santa Monica, CA 90403

Cost: $10.00 (member); $15.00 (general admission)