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Director
  
Roberto Rossellini

Music director
  
Renzo Rossellini

Language
  
Italian

5.2/10
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Genre
  
War

Duration
  

Country
  
Italy

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Writer
  
Asvero Gravelli
,
Alberto Consiglio
,
Giovanni DAlicandro

Release date
  
3 February 1943

Cast
  
Alberto Tavazzi
,
Roswita Schmidt
,
Antonio Marietti
,
Attilio Dottesio
,
Aldo Capacci
,
Franco Castellani

Screenplay
  
Roberto Rossellini, Alberto Consiglio, Asvero Gravelli, Giovanni DAlicandro

Similar movies
  
Related Roberto Rossellini movies

The Man with a Cross (Italian: L'uomo dalla croce) is a 1943 Italian war film directed by Roberto Rossellini and starring Alberto Tavazzi, Roswita Schmidt and Attilio Dottesio. It was the final part of Rossellini's "Fascist trilogy" following The White Ship (1941) and A Pilot Returns (1942). It is loosely inspired by Reginaldo Giuliani, an Italian military chaplain who had been killed on active service.

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The film was made at Cinecittà with location shooting in the countryside around Ladispoli standing in for the Eastern Front. Although the film incorporates elements of neorealism such as the use of amateur actors in some parts, stylistically it is closer to a more conventional war film. Rossellini cast his friend, the art director Alberto Tavazzi in the title role, while his girlfriend Roswita Schmidt played the female lead.

Synopsis

The film is set in the summer of 1942 in Ukraine where Italian troops are fighting those of the Soviet Union. A military chaplain volunteers to stay behind with a badly wounded Italian soldier, even though this means certain capture.

Cast

  • Alberto Tavazzi as Il cappellano militare
  • Roswita Schmidt as Irina, la miliziana
  • Attilio Dottesio as Il carrista ferito
  • Doris Hild as Una contadina russa
  • Zoia Weneda as Un'altra contadina russa
  • Antonio Marietti as Serghej, il commissario del popolo
  • Piero Pastore as Beyrov
  • Aldo Capacci as Lo studente soldato
  • Franco Castellani as Un soldato russo ferito
  • Gualtiero Isnenghi as Il ferito antibolscevico
  • Antonio Suriano as Il soldato napoletano
  • Marcello Tanzi as Diego
  • References

    The Man with a Cross Wikipedia
    The Man with a Cross IMDb The Man with a Cross themoviedb.org