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In Italian with English subtitles.
Directed by
Carlo Lizzani. Based in part on actual events at the end of World War Two, we follow a group of partisans who are ordered to take a weapons cache near the Swiss border, in Nazi-occupied northern Italy. In addition to all the difficulties of a wartime raid, they face many practical and ideological problems along the way before taking a final decision. Featuring a young
Gina Lollobrigida and Lamberto Maggiorani ('The Bicycle Thief'), the film was banned or censored for many years by the Italian Catholic church due its relatively even-handed portrayal of the partisans of the region, many of whom were communists or socialists.
