Cinema Dante – Film “Il Generale della Rovere”

Tuesday February 17, 5:30 – 8:20pm Cinema Dante – Il Generale della Rovere – OPL Sunnyside Branch

Note: due to length of film, we are starting earlier than normal at 5:30

Winner of the Golden Lion at the 1959 Venice Film Festival, directed by Roberto Rossellini and featuring world cinema icon Vittorio de Sica (The Bicycle Thief), Il Generale Della Rovere is a film based on the true story of Emanuele Bardone, who, during the height of WWII, exploits his fellow Italians by telling them that he will find their missing loved ones in exchange for money. When he attempts to save a man who had already been executed, he is turned over by the man’s wife and is forced to become a spy in the Nazi prison for one of the German commanders, Colonel Mueller (Hannes Messemer). Under the false identity of Generale della Rovere, he is ordered to bring the Italian resistance fighters among the prisoners out into the open.

The film will be shown in Italian with English subtitles.

Regia:  Roberto Rossellini
Anno:   1959
Lingua: Italiano con sottotitoli in inglese
Durata: 140 minuti

Fonte: IMDb, Wikipedia