YMMV / Rome, Open City

• Complete Monster: Major Bergmann is the chief of The Gestapo during the Nazi occupation of Rome. During his hunt for the Resistance leader Giorgio Manfredi, Bergmann, through his assistant Ingrid, bribes Manfredi's ex lover Marina by giving her drugs and fur coats in order to obtain her confession about Manfredi's hideout. After suspecting to having found Manfredi's whereabouts, Bergmann orders a massive roundup where even sick people are dragged out of their houses, which ends up causing the death of the single mother Pina, on the day of her wedding and in front of her little son. After capturing Manfredi, Bergmann has him tortured so to extort him the names of his allies, and forces the partisan-supporting priest Don Pietro to watch the scene. After Manfredi dies from his injures and Marina, seeing his lifeless body, faints, stricken by guilt, Bergmann orders her to be locked and sentences Don Pietro to death. Bergmann represents the fanaticism and the utter cruelty of the Nazis during World War II hidden under a fake image of charisma and affability.

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