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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.
- Carlo Carlini
- Roberto Rossellini
- MorisErgas
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
Francesco Della Rovere was born into a poor family in Liguria in north-west Italy in 1414, the son of Leonardo della Rovere of Savona. [1] A Franciscan who became Minister General of his order, then cardinal, he had a reptation for unworldliness until he was elected pope in 1471. As Sixtus IV he was both wealthy and powerful, and at once set ...
- 14th century
- Leonardo Beltramo della Rovere
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
1959's Il Generale Della Rovere is an atypical film for Roberto Rossellini. After his neo-realist beginnings and a multi-film collaboration with Ingrid Bergman, Rossellini was already turning away from feature entertainments, with a semi-documentary project filmed in India.
- Roberto Rossellini
- Vittorio De Sica
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Rent General Della Rovere on Prime Video, or buy it on Prime Video. Grimaldi (Vittorio De Sica), a small-time criminal, impersonates an Italian military officer for personal gain, but his charade ...
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The CastGENERAL DELLA ROVERE; screen play by Sergio Amidei, Diego Fabbri and Indro Montanelli; directed by Roberto Rossellini; an Italian-French co-production by Zebra Film of Rome and S. N. E ...