People of Rome (Italian: Gente di Roma) is a 2003 Italian comedy mockumentary film directed by Ettore Scola. It is close to Federico Fellini's Roma.

People of Rome
Directed byEttore Scola
Written byEttore Scola
Paola Scola
Silvia Scola
CinematographyFranco Di Giacomo
Edited byRaimondo Crociani
Music byArmando Trovajoli
Release date
  • October 31, 2003 (2003-10-31)
Running time
100 minutes
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian

The film is dedicated to Alberto Sordi, whom Scola had wanted to cast as a nobleman in the final scene. Sordi died before this could come to pass.

Scola's daughters co-wrote the script.

Plot

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Rome 2003, the camera follows citizens of Rome. Night, in a flat, a woman prepares her husband's lunch. The man takes a bus, but the camera follow another bus ... a woman cleans the mayor's office... A man interviews passengers on a bus about immigration...... the owner of a bar is racist person... a survivor woman of Holocaust remembers the Ghetto deportation... deportation that is filmed by a director... Stefania Sandrelli plays with her grand daughter in a park a man tries to seduce the bus driver...gay night life... sunrise at Piazza Navona, a noble man and a tramp are sitting together.

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