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When Nazi officers force an Italian swindler to impersonate a recently-executed underground resistance leader to gain information from fellow prison inmates, his conscience stirs him for the first time.
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Bardone (De Sica) is an opportunistic rascal in wartime Genoa, conning and cheating his fellow Italians, exploiting their tragedies by promising to help find their missing loved ones in exchange for money. But when the Nazis force him to impersonate a dead partisan general in prison to extract information from fellow inmates, Bardone finds himself wrestling with his conscience for the first time. Roberto Rossellini's gripping drama is further evidence of the compassionate artistry of one cinema's most important voices. In Italian with English subtitles. The Criterion Collection.
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