Curiosidades

The monks in the fifth episode were authentic Franciscan monks from the Maiori convent, near Salerno.

Writer and assistant director Federico Fellini can be noticed in a scene from Episode III ("Roma") as part of the crowd asking an American soldier (Gar Moore) for water and soon after providing him acting instructions moving the head.

This movie is part of a WWII trilogy shot just after the war by Roberto Rossellini, together with Roma, Cidade Aberta (1945) and Alemanha, Ano Zero (1948). Each deals with a specific episode of WWII; respectively, the conquest of Italy by the Allies, the occupation of Rome by the Germans, and post-war Berlin.

The film project started in 1945 as a collection of seven stories of American soldiers after their landing on Sicily, and their relationships with Italian people. In December 1945, it was announced on the newspapers as "Sette Americani".

The film is divided in six episodes simply called 'Episode I', 'Episode II', etc. The action of the six different stories takes place, respectively, in Sicily (Episode I), Naples (Episode II), Rome (Episode III), Florence (Episode IV), a monastery in the Appenine Range (Episode V), and Porte Tolle in the Po delta (Episode VI).