''Special Correspondents'' (Italian: ''Inviati speciali'') is a 1943 Italian romantic

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directed by

Romolo Marcellini Romolo Marcellini (6 October 1910 – 3 June 1999) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He directed 22 films between 1937 and 1969. Selected filmography * ''Stadium A stadium ( : stadiums or stadia) is a place or venue for ...

and starring

Dorothea Wieck Dorothea Wieck, born Dora Bertha Olavia Wieck (3 January 1908 in Davos, Switzerland – 20 February 1986 in Berlin, West Germany), was a German theatre and film actress. Early years Dorothea Wieck was born Dora Bertha Olavia Wieck and grew up ...

, Otello Toso and

Maurizio D'Ancora Rodolfo Gucci (16 July 1912 – 15 May 1983), also known by his stage name Maurizio D'Ancora, was an Italian actor and entrepreneur, who appeared in more than 40 films between 1929 and 1946. He was a member of the Gucci family. His only child, M ...

.Trubiano p.16 It was produced as a

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in support of the Italian war effort during the

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, released a few months before the overthrow of Benito Mussolini's regime. It was shot at the

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. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Alberto Boccianti and Camillo Del Signore.

Synopsis

During the

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an Italian journalist meets a woman he takes to be a colleague, but is in fact a Communist agent. They encounter each other years later during the North African Campaign, where she has a change of heart and heroically sacrifices herself.

Cast

as Lidia Warren * Otello Toso as Renato Marini *

as L'operatore Galletti *

Nerio Bernardi Nerio Bernardi (23 July 1899 – 12 January 1971) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in nearly 200 films between 1918 and 1970. He was born in Bologna, Italy and died in Rome, Italy. Selected filmography * ''Nero'' (1922) * '' The Shep ...

as Il maggiore Alessandri *

Mino Doro Mino Doro (6 May 1903 – 13 April 1992) was an Italian actor who appeared in more than a hundred films between 1932 and 1970. Doro generally played supporting and character roles. He appeared as a blackshirt in the 1934 Fascist propaganda fi ...

as Il giornalista Prosperi * Francesco Grandjacquet as Il commissario Michele Kuncef *

Carlo Duse Carlo Duse (5 January 1898 – 9 September 1956) Birth name: Carlo Artemio e Vittorio Duse. With mention in margin of his date and place of death. was an Italian film actor. He appeared in more than 80 films between 1916 and 1956. He was bor ...

as L'ufficiale di Stato Maggiore in Africa * Barbara Ledi as Barbara Wood *

Luigi Pavese Luigi Pavese (25 October 1897 – 13 December 1969) was an Italian actor and voice actor. Biography Born in Asti, Pavese started his career in 1916 working as a silent film actor at 19 years of age. He then began his theatrical debut in 192 ...

as Un colonnello *

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 w ...

as Il giovane tenente *

Emilio Petacci Emilio Petacci (1886–1965) was an Italian film actor.Goble p.74 Selected filmography * '' Love Everlasting'' (1913) * '' The Wedding March'' (1934) * '' The Joker King'' (1935) * '' Sette giorni all'altro mondo'' (1936) * '' Joe the Red'' (193 ...

as Richardson * Otello Cazzola as De Gariata * Mario Brizzolari as Il colonnello Garcia * Maria Teresa Le Beau as L'informatrice *

Rita Livesi Rita Livesi (born 1915) is an Italian stage and film actress. She is known for Amore amaro (1974), Il berretto a sonagli (1985) and La ragazza del vagone letto (1979). Selected filmography * '' Cavalry'' (1936) * '' Adam's Tree'' (1936) * '' ...

as La direttrice dell' hotel a Biarritz * Paolo Ferrara as Baldassare *

Adele Garavaglia Adele Garavaglia (1869–1944) was an Italian stage and film actress An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media su ...

as La signora del telegrafo *

Saro Urzì Rosario "Saro" Urzì (24 February 1913 – 1 November 1979) was an Italian actor. He is best known for his roles in the films '' In the Name of the Law'' (1949), '' The Railroad Man'' (1956), '' Seduced and Abandoned'' (1964), which earned him ...

as Un soldato

References

Bibliography

* Trubiano, Marisa S. ''Ennio Flaiano and His Italy: Postcards from a Changing World''. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 2010.

External links

* 1943 films 1943 war films 1940s Italian-language films Films directed by Romolo Marcellini Italian black-and-white films Spanish Civil War films Films set in the 1930s Films set in the 1940s Films set in Egypt World War II films made in wartime 1940s Italian films {{1940s-Italy-film-stub