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Un Pilota ritorna
ITALY · 1942

Un Pilota ritorna

Michelangelo Antonioni
war and imprisonment forbidden romance escape and survival Italian cinema of fascist era homecoming
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Synopsis

A young Italian pilot is interned in a British prison camp after his plane is shot down during the war against Greece. He falls in love with a doctor's daughter and manages to escape during a bombardment. He reaches home, wounded, just as news arrives of the Greek surrender.

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