Victorio Emanuele Bardone/Grimaldi
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General Della Rovere (Italian: Il generale Della Rovere) is a 1959 Italian–French drama film directed by Roberto Rossellini. The film is based on a story by Indro Montanelli which was in turn based on a true story.
General Della Rovere: Directed by Roberto Rossellini. With Vittorio De Sica, Hannes Messemer, Vittorio Caprioli, Nando Angelini. Bardone, a petty con man, is arrested by the Gestapo and coerced into impersonating a partisan leader in order to expose another resistance organizer.
Il Generale Della Rovere. In a magnetic performance, Vittorio De Sica is Emanuele Bardone, an opportunistic rascal in wartime Genoa, conning his fellow Italians and exploiting their tragedies by promising to help find their missing loved ones in exchange for money.
A Franciscan who became Minister General of his order, then cardinal, he had a reptation for unworldliness until he was elected pope in 1471. As Sixtus IV he was both wealthy and powerful, and at once set about giving power and wealth to his nephews of the Della Rovere and Riario families.
Grimaldi (Vittorio De Sica), a small-time criminal, impersonates an Italian military officer for personal gain, but his charade ends when he is arrested by the Nazis.
Mar 11, 2015 · Il generale Della Rovere is really two films knit together: the first half gives us the story of Bardone surviving under the German occupation; in the second half, in prison, Bardone, blackmailed by the Gestapo into masquerading as General Giovanni Braccioforte Della Rovere, hero of the Resistance, slowly grows into his new role.
He lets himself be put in a political prison impersonating a certain General della Rovere, a prize resistance leader only a few Nazis know has been secretly killed.
