A young Italian pilot is interned in a British prison camp after his plane is shot down during the war against Greece. He falls in love with a doctor's daughter and manages to escape during a bombardment. He reaches home, wounded, just as news arrives of the Greek surrender.
Direction
Rossellini experimenting before Open City changed cinema.
Acting
Massimo Girotti's brooding intensity carries every frame.
Director
Roberto Rossellini
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Rossellini shot this during WWII using real internment camps, blurring documentary and fiction.
Made under Mussolini's regime, the film's sympathetic British portrayal got it buried post-war.
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