Without a Flag
{{Infobox film
| name =Without a Flag
| image =Senza bandiera.jpg
| caption =
| director =Lionello De Felice
| writer = Franco Brusati
Jacopo Comin
Lionello De Felice
Luigi Freddi
Giorgio Prosperi
Nantas Salvalaggio
| producer = Luigi Freddi
| starring =Massimo Serato
Paolo Stoppa
Walter Rilla
| narrator =
| cinematography =Mario Craveri
| editing =Mario Serandrei
| music =Renzo Rossellini
| studio = Elfo Film
| distributor = ENIC
| released = {{Film date|1951|10}}
| runtime = 121 minutes
| country = Italy
| language = Italian
| budget =
}}
Without a Flag ({{langx|it|Senza bandiera}}) is a 1951 Italian drama film directed by Lionello De Felice and starring Massimo Serato, Paolo Stoppa and Walter Rilla.Rondolino p.256 It was shot at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art director Alfredo Montori.
Synopsis
During the First World War, an Italian officer attempts to break up an Austrian espionage ring operating out of neutral Switzerland.
Comment
De Felice's debut film Behind the Camera was shot in the Cinecittà studios. Registered in the Public Film Register with no. 980, was presented to the Film Review Commission on 21 September 1951, obtained censorship visa n. 10,616 of 2 October 1951, with the film length of 3,098 meters.{{Cite journal |last1=Battilani |first1=Patrizia |last2=Bagnaresi |first2=Davide |date=December 2020 |title=La spiaggia come luogo di produzione e di consumo: dal modello informale ottocentesco a quello "taylorista" del periodo fra le due guerre |journal=Italia Contemporanea |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.3280/ic2020-294001 |issue=294 |pages=11–45 |doi=10.3280/ic2020-294001 |s2cid=235056858 |issn=0392-1077|url-access=subscription }} It had its first public screening in October 1951.{{Cite book |last1=Monardes |first1=Nicolás |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.7112 |title=Delle cose che vengono portate dall'Indie Occidentali pertinenti all'uso della medicina /raccolte & trattate dal Dottor Nicolò Monardes .. : novamente recata dalla Spagnola nella nostra lingua Italiana : dove ancho si tratta de' Veneni, & della lor cura. |last2=Ziletti |first2=Giordano. |date=1575 |publisher=Presso di Giordano Ziletti |location=In Venetia |doi=10.5962/bhl.title.7112 }} The collection was 141,500,000 lire.
Main cast
- Vivi Gioi as Helga Grueber
- Massimo Serato as Leutnant Morassi
- Umberto Spadaro as Natale Papini - Lo scassinatore
- Paolo Stoppa as Poggi - Il professore
- Walter Rilla as Spionagechef
- Heinz Moog as Baron von Loetzendorff
- Carlo Ninchi as Il Comandante
- Guido Celano as Sottocapo Poggi
- Laura Solari as la signora Merrick
- Nietta Zocchi as la cameriera di Helda
- Camillo Pilotto as l'ispettore del controspionaggio
- Luigi Cimara as il diplomatico in Svizzera
- Guido Notari as l'ammiraglio
- Fanny Marchiò as una donna patronessa
References
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Bibliography
- Gianni Rondolino. Dizionario del cinema italiano 1945-1969. Einaudi, 1969.
External links
- {{IMDb title|id =0044021|title=Without a Flag}}
Category:1950s Italian-language films
Category:World War I spy films
Category:Italian historical films
Category:1950s historical films
Category:Films scored by Renzo Rossellini
Category:Italian black-and-white films
Category:Films shot at Cinecittà Studios
Category:Films directed by Lionello De Felice
Category:1951 directorial debut films
Category:Italian-language historical films
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