General Della Rovere

GENERAL DELLA ROVERE was the film that returned director Roberto Rossellini to international favor after he ended his filmmaking collaboration with Ingrid Bergman and explored documentary filmmaking with INDIA. Although Rossellini, who took on this film as a survival project, looked upon GENERAL DELLA ROVERE with shame, it is one of his great achievements, the story of a man who discovers his own morality by imitating another's.

Revolving around this essentially Christian theme, the film is set during the German occupation of Genoa during the winter of 1943-44. After Resistance leader Gen. della Rovere is accidentally murdered by Gestapo troops, the local Nazi c...