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General della Rovere

Directed by	Roberto Rossellini
Written by	Sergio Amidei
Starring	Vittorio De Sica Hannes Messemer
Release date(s)	September, 1959 (premiere at VFF) 7 October 1959 21 November 1960
Running time	138 mins (Venice) 130 mins (Italy) 129 mins (USA)
Country	Italy/France
Language	Italian/German

General della Rovere (Italian: Il generale della Rovere) is a 1959 Italian film directed by Roberto Rossellini. The film is based on a novel by Indro Montanelli which was in turn based on a true story.

Plot

The film tells the story of a petty thief (played by Vittorio De Sica) who is hired by the Nazis to impersonate an Italian resistance leader, General della Rovere, and infiltrate a group of resistance prisoners in a Milan prison.

Awards

The film won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.

External links

Il Generale Della Rovere at Allmovie
General della Rovere at the Internet Movie Database
General della Rovere at Allmovie

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Golden Lion winning films

1949-1969	Manon (1949) · Justice Is Done (1950) · Rashomon (1951) · Forbidden Games (1952) · No award (1953) · Romeo and Juliet (1954) · Ordet (1955) · No award (1956) · Aparajito (1957) · Rickshaw Man (1958) · General della Rovere / The Great War (1959) · Tomorrow Is My Turn (1960) · Last Year at Marienbad (1961) · Family Diary / Ivan's Childhood (1962) · Hands Over the City (1963) · Red Desert (1964) · Sandra (1965) · The Battle of Algiers (1966) · Belle de Jour (1965 film) (1967) · Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed (1968) · No award (1969) ·

1970-1989	No award (1970) · No award (1971) · No award (1972) · No award (1973) · No award (1974) · No award (1975) · No award (1976) · No award (1977) · No award (1978) · No award (1979) · Atlantic City/Gloria (1980) · Marianne and Juliane (1981) · The State of Things (1982) · First Name: Carmen (1983) · The Year of the Quiet Sun (1984) · Vagabond (1985) · The Green Ray (1986) · Au Revoir, les Enfants (1987) · The Legend of the Holy Drinker (1988) · A City of Sadness (1989) ·

1990-2009	Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990) · Urga (1991) · The Story of Qiu Ju (1992) · Short Cuts / Three Colors: Blue (1993) · Vive l'Amour / Before the Rain (1994) · Cyclo (1995) · Michael Collins (1996) · Fireworks (1997) · The Way We Laughed (1998) · Not One Less (1999) · The Circle (2000) · Monsoon Wedding (2001) · The Magdalene Sisters (2002) · The Return (2003) · Vera Drake (2004) · Brokeback Mountain (2005) · Still Life (2006) · Lust, Caution (2007) · The Wrestler (2008) · Lebanon (2009)

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