A grandfather recalls how he and his wife met and fell in love during the Second Italian War of Independence.
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Alberto Capozzi
Mary Cleo Tarlarini
Luigi Maggi
Paolo Azzurri
Mario Voller-Buzzi
Giuseppe Gray
Ernesto Vaser
Norina Rasero
Oreste Grandi
The man, the hill, the shack.
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Tells the story of the last day in the life of a dictator who knows that this time he won't be victorious.
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During the Blitz of World War II, a female screenwriter works on a film celebrating England's resilience as a way to buoy a weary populace's spirits. Her efforts to dramatise the true story of two sisters who undertook their own maritime mission to rescue wounded soldiers are met with mixed feelings by a dismissive all-male staff.
Fr. Hugh O'Flaherty is a Vatican official in 1943-45 who has been hiding downed pilots, escaped prisoners of war, and Italian resistance families. His activities become so large that the Nazis decide to assassinate him the next time he leaves the Vatican.
Young women toiling in a factory are exposed to hazardous material which takes a disastrous toll on their health.
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