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General Della Rovere (Italian: Il generale Della Rovere) is a 1959 Italian–French drama film directed by Roberto Rossellini. The film is based on a story by Indro Montanelli which was in turn based on a true story.
History. Francesco Della Rovere was born into a poor family in Liguria in north-west Italy in 1414, the son of Leonardo della Rovere of Savona. A Franciscan who became Minister General of his order, then cardinal, he had a reptation for unworldliness until he was elected pope in 1471.
Il Generale Della Rovere. In a magnetic performance, Vittorio De Sica is Emanuele Bardone, an opportunistic rascal in wartime Genoa, conning his fellow Italians and exploiting their tragedies by promising to help find their missing loved ones in exchange for money.
Mar 11, 2015 · It is hard to underestimate the iconic significance of the general. The Della Rovere family dates back to before the Renaissance in Italy and included two popes, one of whom, Sixtus IV, was responsible for commissioning the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, named after him.
Generale Della Rovere ★★★½ Il Generale Della-Rovere 1960. A WWII black marketeer is forced by the Nazis to go undercover in a local prison. To find out who the resistance leaders are, he poses as a general.
General Della Rovere: Directed by Roberto Rossellini. With Vittorio De Sica, Hannes Messemer, Vittorio Caprioli, Nando Angelini. Bardone, a petty con man, is arrested by the Gestapo and coerced into impersonating a partisan leader in order to expose another resistance organizer.
Mar 30, 2009 · Roberto Rossellini’s Il Generale Della Rovere was the filmmaker’s only post- Open City film to be critically and commercially successful upon its initial release, a fact that reportedly irritated the him to no end.
