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Johnny the Partisan (2000)
Directed by Guido Chiesa
Overview
After the 8th September 1943 north of Italy is occupied by Germans. Italian army collapsed and the soldiers are escaped to the mountains trying to set up a resistance. Many civilians did the same and Johnny, an English literature student, is among them. Johnny avoids to band together the red partisans (communists) and tries to be part of the azure bands (former regular soldiers). But in both cases he is deluded by the partisan bands and discovers that the partisan war is less poetic and genuine that he thought. At one point anyway the partisans free Alba from Germans. When the city falls again in German hands Johnny escape with Ettore and Pierre. But, one after another, German army and Italian fascists captures the partisans and Johnny will pass the winter alone and isolated. He then finds the way to participate to one of the last attack to occupants, in fact the war will be over two months later.
Length 135 minutes
Actors
Stefano Dionisi | Gabriele Montanari | Toni Bertorelli | Lina Bernardi | Fabrizio Gifuni | Stefano Scherini | Maximilian Nisi | Flavio Bonacci | Antonio Petrocelli | Andrea Di Casa | Pietro Perotti | Renzo Lori | Francesco Procopio | Giovanni Esposito | Marco Piras | Fulvio Milani | Antonio Leotti | Alberto Gimignani | Giuseppe Cederna | Davide Lorino | Umberto Procopio | Barbara Lerici | Enrico Olocco | Claudio Amendola | Maurizio Santilli | Andrea Prodan | Felice Andreasi | Nicola Pannelli | Gianmaria Patrone | Alberto Hoiss | Andrea Bruschi | Lucio Zagaria | Dario Leone | Gabriele Tesauri | Ferruccio Casacci | Michele Melega | Daniele Comba | Carlo Giraudo | Chiara Muti | Michele Di Mauro | Fausto Paravidino | Marilena Biestro | Massimo Mirani | Sergio Troiano | Luisella Tamietto | Silver Veglia | Franco Ravera | Luisa Riccio | Fabio De Luigi | Luis Cabases | Marina Rista | Fiorenzo Cane | Cesare Peracchio | Olivia Manescalchi | Erika Petronini | Stefania Pingione | Stefano Moretti | Flavio Insinna | Paola Rota | Stefano Campi | Umberto Orsini