“Three soldiers - an American, Englishman, and Russian - having escaped from a concentration camp during the final months of Rome's occupation, are given refuge in a young woman's loft. She and her fiance survive through various black market schemes and impersonations. A defrocked priest, Tarcisio, suspects the girl's complicity with the Allied soldiers....
“Era Notte A Roma (is) perhaps Rossellini's greatest war-themed film.... Motifs common to Rossellini's other war films (moral fortitude and religiosity in Open City; language and communication in Paisan; innocence and guilt in Germany, Year Zero; courage in General Della Rovere) all are found here, as well as an overriding and systematic moving back from these ideas....” --Eric Sherman, Audio Brandon