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How did Federico Fellini contribute to Roberto Rossellini’s Open City?

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Federico Fellini contributed to Roberto Rossellini’s Open City (1945) by serving as one of the film's screenwriters. His work on the screenplay for this landmark of Neorealism earned him his first Academy Award nomination.12

Fellini met Rossellini in 1944 and became part of his writing team, marking the beginning of a professional collaboration that also included Fellini's contributions to Rossellini's Paisan (1946) and the episode "The Miracle" in the film L'amore (1948).1