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During the Spanish War, a young Italian journalist falls in love with a woman who is known to be a propagandist of the Communist government. She encounters her again in Marmanica, when she is captured on an enemy truck; the woman, redeemed by love, puts himself at the service of the fascists and will redeem himself by dying.

 

 

Film notes:

 

 

Country of production: Italy

Year: 1943

Duration: 90 min

Color: B/N

Genre Audio: Adventure

Director: Romolo Marcellini

Subject: Asvero Gravelli 

Screenplay: Giuseppe Castelletti, Alberto Consiglio, Ennio Flaiano, Virginio Lilli

Photograph: Rodolfo Lombardi

Editing : Vincenzo Zampi

Music: Mario Ruccione

Set design: Alberto Boccianti

 

 

Actors and performers

 

 

Dorothea Wieck : Lidia Warren 

Otello Toso : Renato Marini

Maurizio D'Ancora : Operator Galletti

Neri Bernardi: The major

Alessandri Mino Doro : Journalist Prosperi

Francesco Grandjacquet : The Commissioner 

Michele Carlo Duse : The General Staff Officer in Africa

Rita Livesi : Cashier Tabarin

Luigi Pavese : A Colonel

Piero Palermini : The Young Lieutenant

Emilio Petacci : Richardons

Otello Cazzaola : De Gariata

Mario Brizzolari : Colonel Garcia

Adele Garavaglia : The Rich Woman