IL GENERALE DELLA ROVERE
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.
| original title: | Il generale Della Rovere |
| country: | France, Italy |
| year: | 1959 |
| genre: | fiction |
| directed by: | Roberto Rossellini |
| film run: | 132' |
| release date: | IT 30/08/1959, FR 11/11/1959, GR 22/12/1959, SE 1959, DE 14/04/1960, ES 17/04/1960, HU 24/11/1960, DK 17/01/1961, NL 20/04/1961, FI 05/05/1961, SU 08/05/1961, UK 1961, PT 31/01/1972 |
| screenplay: | Sergio Amidei, Diego Fabbri, Indro Montanelli, Roberto Rossellini |
| cast: | Vittorio De Sica, Hannes Messemer, Sandra Milo |
| cinematography by: | Carlo Carlini |
| film editing: | Cesare Cavagna |
| art director: | Piero Zuffi |
| costumes designer: | Piero Zuffi |
| executive producer: | Moris Ergas |
