In a post-war Rome (1946) a cat burglar inadvertently saves the life of a would-be suicide man who returns from the war to find that he has been betrayed by his fiancée while fighting in the war. From that moment the thief takes the ex-soldier under his wing. They leave house together for a night full of misadventures. In a streets of Rome they meet the struggling typist who can’t pay her rent and opts to street life; a wandering amnesiac who lost his memory and keeps asking everyone “Do you recognize me?”. Thieves, gamblers, hookers, policemen, soldiers and endless chain of cigarette-smoking and alcohol/espresso-drinking.
as La ragazza
as Il giovane
as Il ladro
as Mara
as Lo statunitense
as Il signore distinto
as Il falsario
as Il ricettatore
as Il padrone della bisca
as L'affittacamere
as Il questorino (uncredited)
as Il signore con l'auto (uncredited)
