Special Correspondents (1943 film)
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Directed by | Romolo Marcellini |
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Cinematography | Rodolfo Lombardi |
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Distributed by | ENIC |
Release date | 27 April 1943 |
Running time | 90 minutes |
Country | Italy |
Language | Italian |
Special Correspondents (Italian: Inviati special) is a 1943 Italian romantic thriller film directed by Romolo Marcellini and starring Dorothea Wieck, Otello Toso and Maurizio D'Ancora.[1] It was produced as a propaganda film in support of the Italian war effort during the Second World War, released a few months before the overthrow of Benito Mussolini's regime.
It was shot at the of Titanus in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Alberto Boccianti and .
Synopsis[]
During the Spanish Civil War an Italian journalist meets a woman he takes to be a colleague, but is in fact a Communist agent. They encounter each other years later during the North African Campaign, where she has a change of heart and heroically sacrifices herself.
Cast[]
- Dorothea Wieck as Lidia Warren
- Otello Toso as Renato Marini
- Maurizio D'Ancora as L'operatore Galletti
- Nerio Bernardi as Il maggiore Alessandri
- Mino Doro as Il giornalista Prosperi
- Francesco Grandjacquet as Il commissario Michele Kuncef
- Carlo Duse as L'ufficiale di Stato Maggiore in Africa
- as Barbara Wood
- Luigi Pavese as Un colonnello
- Piero Palermini as Il giovane tenente
- Emilio Petacci as Richardson
- as De Gariata
- as Il colonnello Garcia
- as L'informatrice
- Rita Livesi as La direttrice dell' hotel a Biarritz
- as Baldassare
- Adele Garavaglia as La signora del telegrafo
- Saro Urzì as Un soldato
References[]
- ^ Trubiano p.16
Bibliography[]
- Trubiano, Marisa S. Ennio Flaiano and His Italy: Postcards from a Changing World. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 2010.
External links[]
Categories:
- Italian-language films
- 1943 films
- Italian films
- 1940s war thriller films
- Italian war thriller films
- Films directed by Romolo Marcellini
- Italian black-and-white films
- Spanish Civil War films
- Films set in the 1930s
- Films set in the 1940s
- Films set in Egypt
- World War II films made in wartime
- 1940s Italian film stubs