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6.5 1h 32m

Gold of Rome

Rome 1943. The German Commandant of the city causes a turmoil in the Jewish community by offering them what seems to be an expensive way out of imprisonment and death.

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Top Cast

  • Gérard Blain

    Gérard Blain

    Davide

  • Anna Maria Ferrero

    Anna Maria Ferrero

    Giulia

  • Jean Sorel

    Jean Sorel

    Massimo

  • Andrea Checchi

    Andrea Checchi

    Ortona - father of Giulia

  • Filippo Scelzo

    Filippo Scelzo

    Presidente della Comunità Ebraica

  • Paola Borboni

    Paola Borboni

    Rosa

  • Umberto Raho

    Umberto Raho

    Rabbi Beniamino

  • Miranda Campa

    Miranda Campa

    Signora De Santis

  • Dina De Santis

    Dina De Santis

Overview

Rome 1943. The German Commandant of the city causes a turmoil in the Jewish community by offering them what seems to be an expensive way out of imprisonment and death.

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  • CinemaSerf
    CinemaSerf
    6 Aug 18, 2025

    With the Nazis now firmly in control of the City of Rome, they have come up with a plan to extort 100 lbs of gold from it’s Jewish community else they must deliver two hundred of their most distinguished citizens up as hostage - and they know that will only be a prelude to more wholesale attacks on their faith and their assets. They have barely forty-eight hours to deliver the goods, and so many of them gather together everything of value that they possess to raise this ransom. “Davide” (Gérard Blain) wants none of this appeasement, though. He argues with his leaders that this is but the start of their persecution and that they must leave the city and join the partisans awaiting the arrival of the allies. He also has an eye for “Giulia” (Anna Maria Ferrero) but she is taken by local Catholic lad “Massimo” and a marriage to him might well see her safe from their occupiers - for now, at any rate. What now ensues sees the population divide along the lines of what to do next, but sadly that presentation is a little too superficial. Though Blain does well here as the charismatic lead and Filippo Scelzo also delivers quite poignantly as their conflicted leader determined to do what can to keep some semblance of peace until relief arrives, the other characterisations really only serve to thinly sketch out a scenario but not to really immerse us in it. It’s history, so perhaps Carlo Lizzani was assuming that we all already knew this so felt it unnecessary to fill out the detail, but with so much going on in the city, he determines to focus more on the slightly soapier elements of the storyline rather than the more menacing and intimidatory ones. The photography showcases the city and all that, but aside from one or two more robust scenes towards the end, the substance of this is lacking and I as a bit disappointed.

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