General Della Rovere

Oct 7, 1959

2h 12m

★ 7.4

Overview

The Gestapo forces con man Victorio Bardone to impersonate a dead partisan general in order to extract information from his fellow inmates.

Genres

Drama

War

Production Companies

Société Nouvelle des Établissements Gaumont (SNEG)

Zebra Film

General Della Rovere Trailers

Cast

Bardone AKA 'Grimaldi'

Vittorio De Sica

S.S. Colonel Mueller

Hannes Messemer

Aristide Banchelli

Vittorio Caprioli

Paolo

Nando Angelini

Sergeant Walter Hageman

Herbert Fischer

Vera (the madam)

Mary Greco

Prison guard

Bernardo Menicacci

Partisan girl

Lucia Modugno

Prisoner

Luciano Pigozzi

German officer

Kurt Polter

Pietro Valeri

Giuseppe Rosetti

Marshall Schrantz

Kurt Selge

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