DVD
Il generale della rovere
Call Number
- DVD FOREIGN (CEN)
Edition
Full screen version.
Languages
Italian dialogue; English subtitles.
Performers
Vittorio de Sica, Hannes Messemer, Sandra Milo.
Publication Information
[United States] : Criterion Collection, [2009]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (132 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Audience
Not rated.
Summary
Film of intrigue and heroism within the Italian underground during the German occupation of Italy. Emanuele Bardone, a petty con man, fleeces his victims by posing as a colonel. Persuaded by the Germans to impersonate a partisan leader they have killed, he assumes the admirable qualities of the heroic officer and the German plan backfires.
Notes
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1959.
Based on an idea by Indro Montanelli.
Special features: New, restored high-definition digital transfer ; interviews with Isabella, Renzo, and Ingrid Rossellini, and film scholar Adriano Aprà ; visual essay by Tag Gallagher, author of The adventures of Roberto Rossellini ; original theatrical trailer ; new and improved English subtitle translation ; booklet featuring an essay by film critic James Monaco and an excerpt from a 2000 interview with Indro Montanelli, author of the story that inspired the film.