A fictionalized rendering of a Neopolitan uprising against the Nazis when a garrison of Germans refuse to concede the end of WWII.
I have no idea how accurate this movie is, but it certainly looks accurate. Director Nanni Loy films in grainy black and white, giving the film the look of newsreel footage from the 1940s. The whole movie feels more like a documentary filmed by a guerilla journalist than a fictional film.
There aren't really characters to follow as much as there are faces that become familiar over the course of the film. But despite the lack of a conventional narrative, the movie pulses with humanity.
Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 1962 Academy Awards, and then nominated for Best Original Story and Screenplay the year after.
Grade: A.
I have no idea how accurate this movie is, but it certainly looks accurate. Director Nanni Loy films in grainy black and white, giving the film the look of newsreel footage from the 1940s. The whole movie feels more like a documentary filmed by a guerilla journalist than a fictional film.
There aren't really characters to follow as much as there are faces that become familiar over the course of the film. But despite the lack of a conventional narrative, the movie pulses with humanity.
Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 1962 Academy Awards, and then nominated for Best Original Story and Screenplay the year after.
Grade: A.