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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.
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.
- (3.7K)
- Drama, War
- Roberto Rossellini
- 1959-11-11
A con man is captured by the Nazis during World War II and forced to enter a prison, posing as a captured general, to weed out rebel leaders of the Italian Resistasnce. Once there, however, he has a change of heart, joins the cause of the rebels, and awaits the price he will pay for it.
- Roberto Rossellini
- Vittorio De Sica
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.
- Emanuele Bardone
Grimaldi (Vittorio De Sica), a small-time criminal, impersonates an Italian military officer for personal gain, but his charade ends when he is arrested by the Nazis.
- (10)
- Vittorio De Sica
- Roberto Rossellini
- Drama
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The Gestapo forces con man Victorio Bardone to impersonate a dead partisan general in order to extract information from his fellow inmates.