Although the neo-realists, the “school” to which Rossellini belonged in the 1940s, had not only a political commitment (anti-fascist) but also a world view (sometimes Christianised “socialist realism”), the author of Rome, Open City did not like to be categorised ideologically. This does not mean that he did not have a strong commitment to reality, to the concrete, and at the same time an openness to hope, if not to miracles. The interview with Salvador Allende, a Marxist elected with the support of some progressive Christians, has an obvious element of hope, but when RAI, which bought the rights to the film, screened it, Allende had already committed suicide, his political project crushed by Pinochet's coup.