General Della Rovere (1959)
Il generale Della Rovere
In WWII-Italy, the Gestapo blackmails a con man to impersonate a dead partisan commander in order to extract information from his fellow inmates.
- Date of release
- 1959-10-07
- TMDB
- 7.5 / 10 (154)
- Runtime
- 2h 12m
- Genres
- Drama, War
- Director
- Roberto Rossellini
Casting
- Vittorio De Sica — Bardone AKA 'Grimaldi'
- Hannes Messemer — S.S. Colonel Mueller
- Vittorio Caprioli — Aristide Banchelli
- Nando Angelini — Paolo
- Herbert Fischer — Sergeant Walter Hageman
- Mary Greco — Vera (the madam)
- Bernardo Menicacci — Prison guard
- Lucia Modugno — Partisan girl
- Luciano Pigozzi — Prisoner
- Kurt Polter — German officer
- Giuseppe Rosetti — Pietro Valeri
- Kurt Selge — Marshall Schrantz
Interesting facts
- Awards: 1 · Nominations: 1. Including: Golden Lion
General 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.
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