About this title: With a deft guiding hand, director Roberto Rossellini brings out the depths in this study of a man's transformation during the German occupation of Milan. Based on a novel by Indro Montanelli, the story is true. Colonel Mueller (Hannes Messemer) and his cohorts have decided to plant a spy in the Milan prison. They choose a petty thief from the streets who earns his living plying the black-market trade and assign him to the task. He is thrown in jail under the false identity of General della Rovere (Vittorio De Sica) in order to bring the Italian resistance fighters among the prisoners, out ...
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Format: DVD
Studio: Criterion Collection
UPC:715515042611
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Format: DVD
Studio: Criterion Collection
UPC:715515042611
Description: New. 715515042611 Brand new and factory sealed! We sell no bootlegs or imports. Buy with confidence! You WILL receive your item QUICKLY! read more
Format: DVD
Screen format: Full Screen
DVD region: 1
Studio: Criterion Collection
Date: 03/31/2009
UPC:715515042611
Description: Baronessa Barzani, Vittorio Caprioli, Ivo Garrani, Mary Greco, Hannes Messemer. New. 1959 Run time: 132. Buy with confidence-Satisfaction Guaranteed! read more
Description: Vittorio DeSica, Hannes Messemer, Vittorio Caprioli, Nando Angelini, Herbert Fischer, Mary Greco. Very good in good packaging. 1959 Run time: 130. read more
Description: BRAND NEW. In a magnetic performance, Vittorio De Sica is Bardone, an opportunistic rascal in wartime Genoa, conning and cheating his fellow Italians, exploiting their tragedies by promising to help find their missing loved ones in exchange for money. But when the Nazis force him to impersonate a dead partisan general in prison to extract information from fellow inmates, Bardone finds himself wrestling with his conscience for the first time. Roberto Rossellini's gripping drama, among his most ... read more
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