General Della Rovere(Il generale Della Rovere)
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Italy, France · 1959
2h 12m
Director Roberto Rossellini
Starring Vittorio De Sica, Hannes Messemer, Vittorio Caprioli, Nando Angelini
Genre War, Drama
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Victorio Bardone, the Gestapo force’s con man, is hired by the Third Reich to impersonate a dead partisan general in order to extract information from a group of resistance prisoners. However, the line between role and reality blur when Bardone gradually becomes a hero of the resistance.
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