When the Cameras Stepped into the Rubble In postwar Rome, cinema had to find a new address. Cinecittà , the vast studio complex built under Mussolini, was no longer a functioning dream factory. It had been damaged, occupied, and transformed into a refugee camp. Film production was pushed outward, into streets scarred by bombing, apartment blocks …
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