Movie · 1959
General Della Rovere
Released 7 October 1959 132 min Drama / War More from 1959 → IMDb ↗ · Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗
In WWII-Italy, the Gestapo blackmails a con man to impersonate a dead partisan commander in order to extract information from his fellow inmates.
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How old were they?
Vittorio De Sica
as Bardone AKA 'Grimaldi'
Vittorio Caprioli
as Aristide Banchelli
Hannes Messemer
as S.S. Colonel Mueller
Anne Vernon
as Carla Fassio
Ivo Garrani
as Partisan chief (uncredited)
Luciano Pigozzi
as Prisoner
Lucia Modugno
as Partisan girl
Franco Interlenghi
as Antonio Pasquali (uncredited)
Nando Angelini
as Paolo
Sandra Milo
as Olga
Giovanna Ralli
as Valeria
Herbert Fischer
as Sergeant Walter Hageman
Mary Greco
as Vera (the madam)
Bernardo Menicacci
as Prison guard
Kurt Polter
as German officer
Giuseppe Rosetti
as Pietro Valeri
Kurt Selge
as Marshall Schrantz
Linda Veras
as German attendant
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The numbers
34years between the oldest and youngest billed
58Vittorio De Sica — oldest on the call sheet
24Giovanna Ralli — youngest billed
33average age of the credited cast