Brothers of Italy (1952)
January 1, 1952Release Date
Plot.
Capodistria, 1915. Captain Nazario Sauro, an officer in the Austrian Navy, is one of those patriots who militate for Italy to enter World War I. When he is about to be arrested by the Austrian authorities he chooses to desert. Once in Venice he enlists in the Italian Navy and becomes an officer in a submarine where his perfect knowledge of the coast of Istria proves particularly helpful. But when his submarine runs aground near the island of Munje, he is captured by the Austrians, sentenced to death for high treason and hanged in 1916.
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Cast & Crew.
Ettore Manni
Capitano Nazario Sauro
Paul Müller
Luigi Staffi
Olga Solbelli
Anna Sauro
Lili Cerasoli
Marcia Sauro
Ennio Girolami
Sergio
Mario Ferrari
Comandante nave italiana
Fanny Landini
Maria
Marc Lawrence
Capitano March
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Wiki.
Brothers of Italy (Italian: Fratelli d'Italia) is a 1952 Italian biographical war film directed by Fausto Saraceni and starring Ettore Manni, Paul Muller and Olga Solbelli. It depicts real life events of Austrian-born Italian irredentist and sailor Nazario Sauro. The film's sets were designed by the art director Piero Filippone.