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Directed by Alessandro Blasetti Cinematography Otello Martelli Director Alessandro Blasetti | 6.1/10 IMDb Music by Umberto Mancini Initial release 1934 (Italy) Music director Umberto Mancini | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Written by Livio Apolloni
Giuseppe Zucca
Alessandro Blasetti Starring Gianfranco Giachetti
Mino Doro
Franco Brambilla
Maria Puccini Edited by Ignazio Ferronetti
Alessandro Blasetti Screenplay Alessandro Blasetti, Giuseppe Zucca Story by Giuseppe Zucca, Livio Apolloni Cast Andrea Checchi, Mino Doro, Gianfranco Giachetti, Ugo Ceseri, Umberto Sacripante Similar Ettore Fieramosca, 1860, Aldebaran, Palio, The Table of the Poor | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Old Guard (Italian:Vecchia guardia) is a 1934 Italian drama film directed by Alessandro Blasetti and starring Gianfranco Giachetti, Mino Doro and Franco Brambilla. It was one several pro-Fascist films made by Blasetti during the era. The film is set in a small Italian town in 1922, where a local group of Fascist blackshirts battle against rival socialists who have called a strike at the hospital. Mario, the young son of Doctor Cardini, is killed in the fighting. The film ends with the March on Rome that brought Benito Mussolini to power.
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Although intended as sympathetic to the regime, and the methods by which it came to power, the film was not popular with the Fascist hierarchy who felt its portrayal of violence undermined the respectable image the party was now trying to cultivate.