General Della Rovere

General della Rovere

Directed by	Roberto Rossellini
Written by	Sergio Amidei
Starring	Vittorio De Sica Hannes Messemer
Release dates	September 1959 (1959-09) (VIFF) 7 October 1959 (1959-10-07)
Running time	138 minutes
Country	Italy France
Language	Italian German Hebrew

General della Rovere (Italian: Il generale Della Rovere) is a 1959 Italian film directed by Roberto Rossellini. The film is based on a novel by Indro Montanelli which was in turn based on a true story.

Plot

The film tells the story of a petty thief (played by Vittorio De Sica) who is hired by the Nazis to impersonate an Italian resistance leader, General della Rovere, and infiltrate a group of resistance prisoners in a Milan prison.

Cast

Vittorio De Sica: Vittorio Emanuele Bardone/Grimaldi
Hannes Messemer: SS Col. Müller
Vittorio Caprioli: Aristide Banchelli
Giovanna Ralli: Valeria
Sandra Milo: Olga
Maria Greco: Madama Vera
Herbert Fischer: German sergeant
Anne Vernon: Clara Fassio
Franco Interlenghi: Antonio Pasquali
Ivo Garrani: Partican Chief
Linda Veras: German Attendant

Awards

The film won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.

External links

General della Rovere at the Internet Movie Database
General della Rovere at AllMovie

Films directed by Roberto Rossellini

La Vispa Teresa (1939)
The White Ship (1941)
A Pilot Returns (1942)
The Man with a Cross (1943)
Rome, Open City (1945)
Paisan (1946)
L'Amore (segment: "Il Miracolo") (1948)
Germany, Year Zero (1948)
Stromboli (1950)
The Flowers of St. Francis (1950)
The Seven Deadly Sins (segment: "Envie, L'Envy") (1952)
Machine to Kill Bad People (1952)
Europe '51 (1952)
We, the Women (segment: "Ingrid Bergman") (1953)
Where Is Freedom? (1954)
Journey to Italy (1954)
Fear (1954)
Giovanna d'Arco al rogo (1954)
India: Matri Bhumi (1959)
General Della Rovere (1959)
Escape by Night (1960)
Garibaldi (1961)
Vanina Vanini (1961)
Anima nera (1962)
Ro.Go.Pa.G. (segment: "Illibatezza") (1963)
The Taking of Power by Louis XIV (1966)
Socrates (1971)
''L'età de Cosimo dei Medici (1973)
Anno uno (1974)

Golden Lion winning films

1949–1968	Manon (1949) Justice Is Done (1950) Rashomon (1951) Forbidden Games (1952) No award (1953) Romeo and Juliet (1954) Ordet (1955) No award (1956) Aparajito (1957) Rickshaw Man (1958) General Della Rovere / The Great War (1959) Tomorrow Is My Turn (1960) Last Year at Marienbad (1961) Family Diary / Ivan's Childhood (1962) Hands over the City (1963) Red Desert (1964) Sandra (1965) The Battle of Algiers (1966) Belle de Jour (1967) Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed (1968)

1980–2000	Atlantic City / Gloria (1980) Marianne and Juliane (1981) The State of Things (1982) First Name: Carmen (1983) A Year of the Quiet Sun (1984) Vagabond (1985) The Green Ray (1986) Au revoir les enfants (1987) The Legend of the Holy Drinker (1988) A City of Sadness (1989) Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990) Urga (1991) The Story of Qiu Ju (1992) Short Cuts / Three Colors: Blue (1993) Vive L'Amour / Before the Rain (1994) Cyclo (1995) Michael Collins (1996) Fireworks (1997) The Way We Laughed (1998) Not One Less (1999) The Circle (2000)

2001–present	Monsoon Wedding (2001) The Magdalene Sisters (2002) The Return (2003) Vera Drake (2004) Brokeback Mountain (2005) Still Life (2006) Lust, Caution (2007) The Wrestler (2008) Lebanon (2009) Somewhere (2010) Faust (2011) Pietà (2012) Sacro GRA (2013) A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014) From Afar (2015) The Woman Who Left (2016)

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