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As the war progresses, the Allies succeed in landing in Italy and begin to overcome German resistance, eventually breaking through and heading towards Rome itself. Colonel Kappler worries for his family's safety from vengeful partisans , and, in a one-to-one meeting with O'Flaherty, asks him to save his family, appealing to the same values that ...
An Italian in America (Italian: Un italiano in America) is a 1967 Commedia all'italiana film co-written and directed by Alberto Sordi and starring the same Sordi opposite Vittorio De Sica. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Screenwriter Rodolfo Sonego was inspired for the plot by the participation of one of his friends, the painter Salvatore Scarpitta , to the ...
In Country was generally well received by critics. It has a 68% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 28 reviews. Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B" on an A+ to F scale. [5] Film critic Roger Ebert gave the film three out of four stars and wrote, "The movie is like a time bomb. You sit there, interested, absorbed ...
The Two Popes is a 2019 biographical drama film directed by Fernando Meirelles and written by Anthony McCarten, adapted from McCarten's play The Pope which premiered at Royal & Derngate Theatre in 2019.
Title Director Cast Genre Notes Paisà: Roberto Rossellini: Maria Michi, Carmela Sazio, Robert Van Loon, Dots Johnson: Italian neorealism: Six episodes about World War II in Italy; Academy Award nominee for Best Script, New York Film Critics Circle Awards, National Board of Review
Golden Door (Italian: Nuovomondo, literally "new world") is a 2006 drama film based on a family's migration from Italy to New York City, U.S.A. at the beginning of the 20th century. The film, written and directed by Emanuele Crialese , opens on location in Sicily and concludes in the United States.
Avanti! is a 1972 American/Italian international co-production comedy film produced and directed by Billy Wilder, and starring Jack Lemmon and Juliet Mills.The screenplay by Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond is based on Samuel A. Taylor's play, which had a short run for the 1968 Broadway season. [1]
Hands over the City (Italian: Le mani sulla città) is a 1963 drama film directed by Francesco Rosi.It is a story of political corruption in post-World War II Italy. [1]In 2008, the film was included on the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage's 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that "have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978."