ITALY · 1959

Il generale della rovere

Roberto Rossellini
Italian Neorealism identity deception wartime imprisonment moral compromise resistance and collaboration redemption
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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.

Year1959
CountryItaly
DirectorRoberto Rossellini
Il generale della rovere poster

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