Release Date

01 Jun, 1934

Runtime

01:25: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

There were very few commercial feature films made during the Italian fascist era that were as openly propagandistic as this famous (notorious?) dramatic paean to the Blackshirts. The story takes place in a small village in Italy in October of 1922, on the eve of the fascist "March on Rome", in which King Victor Emanuel III was persuaded to consign power to Benito Mussolini. Gianfranco Giachetti is Dr. Cardini, a doctor at the local psychiatric hospital, where a strike has been called by the local socialists. Cardini turns to the fascists to help avert the strike. His son Roberto (Mino Doro) rounds up fascist friends to fight those aligned with the strikers and the town's socialists.

Original Title

Vecchia guardia

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Actors

Gianfranco Giachetti

Mino Doro

Franco Brambilla

Maria Puccini

Barbara Monis

Graziella Antonelli

Ugo Ceseri

Umberto Sacripante

Graziela Betti

Gino Viotti

Cesare Zoppetti

Aristide Garbini

Italo Tancredi

Alfredo Varelli

Andrea Checchi

Ugo Sasso

Memmo Carotenuto

Crew

Alessandro Blasetti

Ignazio Ferronetti

Umberto Mancini

Alessandro Blasetti

Otello Martelli

Alessandro Blasetti

Livio Apolloni

Giuseppe Zucca

Leo Bomba

Guido Albertini

Leo Bomba

Giuseppe Zucca