Vittorio De Sica

BBC television program exploring Visconti’s mastery of cinema, theater, and opera direction.

A bawdy story of how a poor damsel surrenders her virtue again and again to get to the top of society.

September 1943: in the general confusion a thief dressed as a priest and a sergeant exchange clothes and roles.

The Gestapo forces con man Victorio Bardone to impersonate a dead partisan general in order to extract information from his fellow inmates.