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| Directed by | Roberto Rossellini |
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| Produced by | Moris Ergas |
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| Cinematography | Carlo Carlini |
| Edited by | Cesare Cavagna |
| Music by | Renzo Rossellini |
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General Della Rovere (Italian: Il generale Della Rovere) is a 1959 Italian–French drama film directed by Roberto Rossellini.[1] The film is based on a story by Indro Montanelli which was in turn based on a true story.[2]
Genoa, 1944, during the era of the Italian Social Republic. Petty thief Emanuele Bardone is hired by the German occupation forces to impersonate an Italian Resistance leader, General Della Rovere, and infiltrate a group of resistance prisoners in a Milan prison. Gradually, Bardone loses himself in his role and not merely pretends to be a hero of the resistance but actually becomes one, first encouraging his fellow prisoners to show courage and eventually accepting death by firing squad rather than betraying another imprisoned resistance leader.
The transformation of Emmanuele Bardone, the film's protagonist, from an Axis collaborator into a hero of the anti-Nazi resistance, has been compared by Spanish political commentators to the life story of Adolfo Suárez, the Spanish prime minister who oversaw the transition to democracy in the late 1970s. In particular, Javier Cercas devotes the last chapter of The Anatomy of a Moment[3] to exploring the parallels between Bardone and Suarez.
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