General Della Rovere (1959)
Original title: Il generale Della Rovere
General Della Rovere is a 1959 Italian-language drama movie directed by Roberto Rossellini, with a running time of 2h 12m. It stars Vittorio De Sica, Hannes Messemer and Vittorio Caprioli.
In WWII-Italy, the Gestapo blackmails a con man to impersonate a dead partisan commander in order to extract information from his fellow inmates.
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Cast
- Vittorio De Sica as Bardone AKA 'Grimaldi'
- Hannes Messemer as S.S. Colonel Mueller
- Vittorio Caprioli as Aristide Banchelli
- Nando Angelini as Paolo
- Herbert Fischer as Sergeant Walter Hageman
- Mary Greco as Vera (the madam)
- Bernardo Menicacci as Prison guard
- Lucia Modugno as Partisan girl
- Luciano Pigozzi as Prisoner
- Kurt Polter as German officer
- Giuseppe Rosetti as Pietro Valeri
- Kurt Selge as Marshall Schrantz