General della Rovere (1959) ( Il Generale della Rovere ) ( Le Général della Rovere )

General della Rovere (1959) (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Il Generale della Rovere
Alternate Title: Le Général della Rovere
Screened, competed or awarded at:
David Donatello Awards
Oscar Academy Awards
Venice Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Italian ( Mono )

Product Origin/Format:
Italy ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
132 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen

Special Features:
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1959 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Italy ( Italy, Greece )

Directed By:
Roberto Rossellini

Written By:
Sergio Amidei
Diego Fabbri

Actors:
Vittorio De Sica ..... Victorio Emanuele Bardone / Grimaldi
Hannes Messemer ..... Col. Mueller
Vittorio Caprioli ..... Banchelli
Nando Angelini ..... Vera (the madam)
Herbert Fischer ..... Partisan girl
Mary Greco ..... German officer
Bernardo Menicacci ..... Pietro Valeri
Lucia Modugno ..... Schrantz
Luciano Pigozzi ..... German attendant
Kurt Polter ..... Olga
Giuseppe Rosetti ..... Valeria
Kurt Selge
Linda Veras
Sandra Milo
Giovanna Ralli

Synopsis:

Genoa, 1943. Grimaldi is a swindler, pretending to be a colonel in the Italian army to get money from the family of people put into jail by the Nazis. Once caught, the Gestapo makes a deal with him: he will stay alive if he impersonates the General Della Rovere, a leader of the Resistance who has just been shot by the Nazis, to be put into a political jail where he is supposed to identify another Resistance leader.

With a deft guiding hand, director Roberto Rossellini brings out the depths in this study of a man's transformation during the German occupation of Milan. Based on a novel by Indro Montanelli, the story is true. Colonel Mueller (Hannes Messemer) and his cohorts have decided to plant a spy in the Milan prison. They choose a petty thief from the streets who earns his living plying the black-market trade and assign him to the task. He is thrown in jail under the false identity of General della Rovere (Vittorio De Sica) in order to bring the Italian resistance fighters among the prisoners, out into the open. As the fake general slowly makes friends with these men, he becomes a leader of sorts, and this transformation gets him thinking in a different way about himself. This well-wrought drama was given the 'Best Foreign Film' award in 1960 by the New York Film Critics, and it won the Golden Lion at the 1959 Venice Film Festival.

Bardone, a petty con man, is arrested by the Gestapo and coerced into impersonating a partisan leader in order to expose another resistance organizer.

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