As a multi-faceted metropolis, Rome not only inspired poets, composers and painters, but also filmmakers – and as a result, became an oscillating setting for many significant cinema productions. In a film series, curated by DAS KINO, the diverse nuances and moods are traced in cinematic masterpieces. With Roma, città aperta, for instance, Roberto Rossellini created a key work of neorealism in 1945. In 1960, Federico Fellini drew “a society of abundance lost in amusement“ in La dolce vita. Just one year later, Pier Paolo Pasolini described, in his first directorial work, in contrast to that “the courage, the pain and the innocence of the poor“ (Harry Tomicek) in a rundown suburb of Rome. In 1972, Fellini presented a very personal city portrait, in which the remembered, the experienced and the imagined blended in an opulent abundance, with Fellinis Roma. Paolo Sorrentino’s La grande bellezza is a fantastic declaration of love to the Eternal City from more recent times (2013), captured in magnificent images.