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General Della Rovere (Italian: Il generale Della Rovere) is a 1959 Italian–French drama film directed by Roberto Rossellini. [1] The film is based on a story by Indro Montanelli which was in turn based on a true story.
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.
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- Drama, War
- Roberto Rossellini
- 1959-11-11
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. But when the Nazis force him to impersonate a dead partisan general in prison to ...
- Emanuele Bardone
May 25, 2011 · A couple weekends ago, as part of my ongoing Criterion Reflections blogging project, I watched Il Generale Della Rovere, a 1959 film directed by Roberto Rossellini that marked one of the commercial and critical high points of his career, yielding his biggest box office results since his breakthrough Rome Open City and major festival hardware (Venice’s Golden Lion for Best Film that year ...
Roberto Rossellini's Il Generale Della Rovere features his neo-realist comrade (Vittorio De Sica) as Bardone - a petty wartime swindler who routinely fleeces vulnerable fellow-genoans to cover his gambling debts by posing as an influential war-veteran, having pull among the German higher-ranks. But when the Nazis eventually get wise to his ...
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- Roberto Rossellini
The other is the much admired resistance leader General della Rovere, who is shot as he tries to escape from his Nazi captors. When Grimaldi is captured, turned in by a woman he tried to swindle, Colonel Mueller (Hannes Messemer) the Nazi officer in charge of his case, decides to take advantage of the situation.
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Sep 26, 2021 · Criterion Sunday 463: Il generale della Rovere (General della Rovere, 1959) Published on 26 September 2021 23 September 2021 by Ewan M This is a solid film, no doubt, though by 1959 I can’t help but feel this kind of moral drama about the end of World War II was already rather long in the tooth, as well as something Rossellini had himself already explored quite extensively.
