Watch: Il generale Della Rovere 1959 123movies, Full Movie Online – Bardone, a petty con man, is arrested by the Gestapo and coerced into impersonating a partisan leader in order to expose another resistance organizer..
Plot: The Gestapo forces con man Victorio Bardone to impersonate a dead partisan general in order to extract information from his fellow inmates.
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Underrated gem
I was astounded watching this movie. It is less known compared to Rossellini’s war trilogy … but it left a deeper impact on me. One of the best anti war movies ever made .. helped by a towering performance by De Sica …
Fascinating left-wing WWII movie
The story of the film concerns “Colonelo” Bertone a self-appointed community intercessor and thief in World War II Italy, passing on bribes from families to the Germans in order to help their sons (or gambling away the bribes and eating their food parcels). It’s definitely a film of two halves, the first half of the movie to me feeling decidedly Pasolinian. Bertone, though undoubtedly a scoundrel does his best to keep people happy, is a character that spreads a certain amount of charm in the world. For some people who have never known love or had anyone to look up to, he provides a show, his charisma is like ambrosia. Having been brought up with Protestant vales it has been a revelation to me in life how people value charm as most precious, a Veblen good, more prized when it is most demanding, how a charming person is valued above all others even when they live in a moral vacuum.The second half of the movie is, in structure, a more conventional prison movie where Bertone, working for the Germans in order to save his skin, becomes an impostor pretending to be Generale della Rovere. Whilst pretending to be the general he begins to assume many of the general’s characteristics. This part of the film is very patriotic, and contains a beautiful fresco of Italian cities on the prison wall. The ideology of this part of the movie is all about recognising the efforts of the largely Communist, Partito d’Azione and Socialist partisan resistance, bodies who were largely excluded from the post-fascist Italian government, which was dominated by the Christian Democrats, who many felt to have been tainted by association with fascism.
Pontecorvo’s movie Kapò was released contemporaneously, and features a similarly caricatured version of the Teutonic gaoler and slightly ebullient view of World War II, that would become refined in future decades. That said, Il Generale della Rovere, is undoubtedly a masterpiece.
Original Language it
Runtime 2 hr 12 min (132 min), 2 hr 9 min (129 min) (USA), 2 hr 18 min (138 min) (Venice) (Italy)
Budget 0
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Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Drama, War
Director Roberto Rossellini
Writer Sergio Amidei, Diego Fabbri, Indro Montanelli
Actors Vittorio De Sica, Hannes Messemer, Sandra Milo
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Awards Nominated for 1 Oscar. 12 wins & 8 nominations total
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Sound Mix Mono, Mono (Fonolux)
Aspect Ratio 1.37 : 1, 1.66 : 1 (intended ratio)
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Negative Format 35 mm (Dupont), 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm