IL GENERAL DELLA ROVERE

Original 1960 Russian 25 1/4 inch x 40 1/4 inch Poster for the 1959 Roberto Rossellini Wartime Drama IL GENERAL DELLA ROVERE, based on the novel by Indro Montanelli and starring Vittorio De Sica as General Della Rovere, Hannes Messemer, Sandra Milo, Giovanna Ralli, Anne Vernon, Vittorio Caprioli, Lucia Modugno, and Luciano Picozzi.

In a magnetic performance, Vittorio De Sica is Emanuele Bardone, an opportunistic rascal in wartime Genoa, conning his fellow Italians and exploiting their tragedies by promising to help find their missing loved ones in exchange for money. But when the Nazis force him to impersonate an Italian resistance leader, General della Rovere, and infiltrate a group of resistance prisoners in a Milan prison, Bardone finds himself wrestling with his conscience for the first time.

Poster art by Tsaryov.

The poster is in good folded condition with paper loss at the top and bottom crossfolds and some tattering and paper loss around the edges of the poster.