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A Pilot Returns
''A Pilot Returns'' (Italian: ''Un pilota ritorna'') is a 1942 Italian war film directed by Roberto Rossellini and starring Massimo Girotti, Michela Belmonte and Piero Lulli. The film forms part of Rossellini's "Fascist trilogy" along with '' The White Ship'' (1941) and ''The Man with a Cross'' (1943). It was made with the co-operation of the Italian Air Force.Bondanella p.32 The film's sets were designed by the architect Virgilio Marchi. Synopsis During the 1940-1941 Italian invasion of Greece, an Italian pilot is shot down and captured by British forces who place him in a prisoner-of-war camp. While there he meets and falls in love with a young Italian woman who has volunteered to care for the prisoners. After escaping from the British, he manages to steal a plane and return to Italy for further duty. On his arrival he learns that Greece has been successfully conquered by the Axis Powers. Cast * Massimo Girotti as Gino Rossati * Michela Belmonte as Anna * Piero Lulli as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roberto Rossellini
Roberto Gastone Zeffiro Rossellini (8 May 1906 – 3 June 1977) was an Italian film director, producer, and screenwriter. He was one of the most prominent directors of the Italian neorealist cinema, contributing to the movement with films such as ''Rome, Open City'' (1945), ''Paisan'' (1946), and ''Germany, Year Zero'' (1948). Early life Rossellini was born in Rome. His mother, Elettra (née Bellan), was a housewife born in Rovigo, Veneto, and his father, Angiolo Giuseppe "Peppino" Rossellini, who owned a construction firm, was born in Rome from a family originally from Pisa, Tuscany. His mother was of partial French descent, from immigrants who had arrived in Italy during the Napoleonic Wars. He lived on the Via Ludovisi, where Benito Mussolini had his first Roman hotel in 1922 when Fascism obtained power in Italy. Rossellini's father built the first cinema in Rome, the "Barberini", a theatre where movies could be projected, granting his son an unlimited free pass; the young R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The White Ship (1941 Film)
''The White Ship'' (Italian: ''La nave bianca'') is a 1941 Italian war film directed by Roberto Rossellini. Its cast was made up entirely of amateur actors, many of them the real crew of a hospital ship of the Italian navy. The production was a work of propaganda intended to support the war aims of the Fascist Italian regime during the Second World War. It was made with the close co-operation of the Italian Navy, particularly Francesco De Robertis. Vittorio Mussolini, the son of the Italian dictator, was also a supporter of the project. It was the first feature film directed by Rossellini, and commenced what has been described as his "Fascist Trilogy" which also includes ''A Pilot Returns'' (1942) and ''The Man with a Cross'' (1943). Along with a number of other films of the era, it is considered a precursor to Italian neorealism. Rossellini went on to be a leading Italian filmmaker, and a major figure in the development of neorealism. The film was screened at the 1941 Venice Fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian War Drama Films
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1942 Films
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Nino Brondello
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Giovanni Valdambrini
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Piero Palermini
Piero Palermini (1925–1996) was an Italian film actor. He was cast by Riccardo Freda in the 1949 swashbuckler, possibly due to a physical resemblance to the Hollywood actor Gene Kelly. Freda would come to regret this casting although Palermini would again appear for him in his 1950 production '' Son of d'Artagnan''.Curti p.78 Selected filmography * ''A Pilot Returns'' (1942) * ''Special Correspondents'' (1943) * '' Fire Over the Sea'' (1947) * ''To Live in Peace'' (1947) * '' The Iron Swordsman'' (1949) * ''Buried Alive'' (1949) * '' Faddija – La legge della vendetta'' (1950) * '' Son of d'Artagnan'' (1950) * '' O.K. Nerone'' (1951) * ''Good Folk's Sunday'' (1953) * ''Puccini'' (1953) * ''The Knight of the Black Sword'' (1956) * '' The Intruder'' (1956) * '' Toto vs. Maciste'' (1962) * '' Caesar the Conqueror'' (1962) * ''La bellezza di Ippolita'' (1962) * '' Planets Against Us (1962) * '' The Fall of Rome'' (1963) * ''Mussolini and I ''Mussolini and I'' (alternately titled ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elvira Betrone
Elvira Betrone (1881–1961) was an Italian actress of stage, film, radio and television.Cardullo p.114 Selected filmography * ''Teresa Venerdì'' (1941) * ''A Garibaldian in the Convent'' (1942) * ''A Pilot Returns'' (1942) * '' Disturbance'' (1942) * ''Jealousy'' (1942) * ''The Ten Commandments'' (1945) * ''Il Brigante Musolino'' (1950) * ''The Ungrateful Heart ''The Ungrateful Heart'' ( nap, Core 'ngrato) is a 1951 Italian melodrama film directed by Guido Brignone and starring Carla Del Poggio, Frank Latimore and Gabriele Ferzetti Gabriele Ferzetti (born Pasquale Ferzetti; 17 March 1925 – 2 ...'' (1951) References Bibliography * Bert Cardullo. ''Vittorio De Sica: Director, Actor, Screenwriter''. McFarland, 2002. External links * 1881 births 1961 deaths Italian stage actresses Italian film actresses Actresses from Rome {{Italy-film-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of Greece
The German invasion of Greece, also known as the Battle of Greece or Operation Marita ( de , Unternehmen Marita, links = no), was the attack of Greece by Italy and Germany during World War II. The Italian invasion in October 1940, which is usually known as the Greco-Italian War, was followed by the German invasion in April 1941. German landings on the island of Crete (May 1941) came after Allied forces had been defeated in mainland Greece. These battles were part of the greater Balkans Campaign of the Axis powers and their associates. Following the Italian invasion on 28 October 1940, Greece, with British air and material support, repelled the initial Italian attack and a counter-attack in March 1941. When the German invasion, known as Operation Marita, began on 6 April, the bulk of the Greek Army was on the Greek border with Albania Albania ( ; sq, Shqipëri or ), or , also or . officially the Republic of Albania ( sq, Republika e Shqipërisë), is a country in Sout ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prisoner-of-war Camp
A prisoner-of-war camp (often abbreviated as POW camp) is a site for the containment of enemy fighters captured by a belligerent power in time of war. There are significant differences among POW camps, internment camps, and military prisons. Purpose-built prisoner-of-war camps appeared at Norman Cross in England in 1797 during the French Revolutionary Wars and HM Prison Dartmoor, constructed during the Napoleonic Wars, and they have been in use in all the main conflicts of the last 200 years. The main camps are used for marines, sailors, soldiers, and more recently, airmen of an enemy power who have been captured by a belligerent power during or immediately after an armed conflict. Civilians, such as Merchant navy, merchant mariners and war correspondents, have also been imprisoned in some conflicts. With the adoption of the Geneva Convention on Prisoners of War (1929), Geneva Convention on the Prisoners of War in 1929, later superseded by the Third Geneva Convention, prisoner-o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greco-Italian War
The Greco-Italian War (Greek language, Greek: Ελληνοϊταλικός Πόλεμος, ''Ellinoïtalikós Pólemos''), also called the Italo-Greek War, Italian Campaign in Greece, and the War of '40 in Greece, took place between the kingdoms of Fascist Italy (1922–1943), Italy and Kingdom of Greece, Greece from 28 October 1940 to 23 April 1941. This local war began the Balkans Campaign (World War II), Balkans Campaign of World War II between the Axis powers and the Allies of World War II, Allies and eventually turned into the Battle of Greece with Commonwealth of Nations, British and Nazi Germany, German involvement. On 10 June 1940, Italy declared war on France and the United Kingdom. By September 1940, the Italians had Italian invasion of France, invaded France, Italian conquest of British Somaliland, British Somaliland and Italian invasion of Egypt, Egypt. This was followed by a hostile press campaign in Italy against Greece, accused of being a British ally. A number of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
