Rome: Open City (Roma, città aperta). Roberto Rossellini, 1945.
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Edition screened: Criterion DVD #497, included in the box set #500 Roberto Rossellini’s War Trilogy, released 2009. Italian language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 103 minutes.
Summary: Offscreen killing of two sheep, with one seen dead. Thank you to our friend Ed for this excellent citation:
Around 59:10- 59:47 German soldiers bring two sheep on ropes into a café telling the innkeeper they have brought meat and noting they will butcher the animals themselves. “Yes, you people specialize in that,” the innkeeper says. At 1:00:59, there is the offscreen sound of a gunshot. Several characters go to investigate. As they look through shutters, one says “Poor creatures” and we see the soldiers in a courtyard standing above the sheep. Both sheep are shorn and one is lying on the ground, presumably dead. A soldier approaches the other sheep and puts a gun against it. We hear a shot as the camera cuts to the characters watching through the windows at 1:01:11.