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GENERAL DELLA ROVERE

By Roberto ROSSELLINI

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Drama - Completed 1959

- Year of production
- 1959
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- ITALY
- Languages
- ITALIAN
- Duration
- 160 mn
- Director(s)
- Roberto ROSSELLINI
- Synopsis
- Italy, second world war. Grimaldi is a swindler, pretending to be a colonel in the Italian army to get money from the family of people put into jail by the Nazis. Once caught, the Gestapo makes a deal with him : he will stay alive if he impersonates the General Della Rovere, a leader of the Resistance who has just been shot by the Nazis, to be put into a political jail where he supposed to identify another Resistance leader.