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La città dolente

1949
1h 50m
Drama
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Cast

Luigi Tosi (Berto)Barbara Costanova (Silvana)Gianni Rizzo (Sergio)Elio Steiner (Martini)Constance Dowling (Lubitza)Gustavo Serena (Il frate franescano)Raimondo Van Riel (Don Felice)Milly Vitale (Maria)Attilio Dottesio (Il fuggiasco)Ivo Karavany (La spia slava)Felice Minotti (Padre di Maria)Aristodeme Garbini (Cesare)Pina Piovani (Una esule)Feodora Ratti ((as Fedora Ratti))Anita FarraAlessandro Tedeschi (Yougoslavian officer)

Director

Mario Bonnard

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Synopsis

The city of Pola is being evacuated after the peace conference of 1947 decided to assign the sovereignty to Tito's Jugoslavia. However the main character decides to stay, thinking that communism might bring him a better future. Life turns to be hard for him and his family until he changes his mind, but he is killed before he can leave the country.

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