Il Bandito
German poster
Directed byAlberto Lattuada
Written byOreste Biancoli
Mino Caudana
Alberto Lattuada
Ettore Margadonna
Tullio Pinelli
Piero Tellini
Produced byDino De Laurentiis
StarringAnna Magnani
Amedeo Nazzari
Carla Del Poggio
CinematographyAldo Tonti
Edited byMario Bonotti
Music byFelice Lattuada
Production
company
Distributed byLux Film
Release date
  • 5 October 1946 (1946-10-05)
Running time
80 minutes
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian

The Bandit (Italian: Il Bandito) is a 1946 Italian drama film directed by Alberto Lattuada and starring Anna Magnani, Amedeo Nazzari and Carla Del Poggio. It was shot on location in Turin. Nazzari won the Nastro d'Argento as Best Actor for his performance. The film was entered into the 1946 Cannes Film Festival.[1]

Plot

A contingent of Italian prisoners of war arrive on a train from Germany after World War II to Turin. The city where Ernesto (played by Nazzari) lives has been bombed, his mother is dead and his sister has gone missing. State help for returning veterans is scant and bureaucracy rampant. Ernesto tries to get an honest job, but fails. After finding a lost purse and meeting the dangerously seductive Lidia (played by Anna Magnani), Ernesto discovers the whereabouts of his lost sister (played by Carla del Poggio), who has turned to prostitution to survive during the war years. He unwittingly causes her death, kills her pimp, escapes capture with Lidia's help and joins her gangster band.

Cast

References

  1. ↑ "Festival de Cannes: The Bandit". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 3 January 2009.

Bibliography

  • Gundle, Stephen. Fame Amid the Ruins: Italian Film Stardom in the Age of Neorealism. Berghahn Books, 2019.
  • Reeves, Nicholas. The Power of Film Propaganda: Myth or Reality?. Continuum, 2003.


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