Without a Flag

1951 Italian film

October 1951 (1951-10)

Running time

121 minutesCountryItalyLanguageItalian

Without a Flag (Italian: Senza bandiera) is a 1951 Italian drama film directed by Lionello De Felice and starring Massimo Serato, Paolo Stoppa and Walter Rilla.^[1] It was shot at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art director Alfredo Montori.

Synopsis

During the First World War, an Italian officer attempts to break up an Austrian espionage ring operating out of neutral Switzerland.

Comment

De Felice's debut film Behind the Camera was shot in the Cinecittà studios. Registered in the Public Film Register with no. 980, was presented to the Film Review Commission on 21 September 1951, obtained censorship visa n. 10,616 of 2 October 1951, with the film length of 3,098 meters.^[2] It had its first public screening in October 1951.^[3] The collection was 141,500,000 lire.

Main cast

Vivi Gioi as Helga Grueber
Massimo Serato as Leutnant Morassi
Umberto Spadaro as Natale Papini - Lo scassinatore
Paolo Stoppa as Poggi - Il professore
Walter Rilla as Spionagechef
Heinz Moog as Baron von Loetzendorff
Carlo Ninchi as Il Comandante
Guido Celano as Sottocapo Poggi
Laura Solari as la signora Merrick
Nietta Zocchi as la cameriera di Helda
Camillo Pilotto as l'ispettore del controspionaggio
Luigi Cimara as il diplomatico in Svizzera
Guido Notari as l'ammiraglio
Fanny Marchiò as una donna patronessa

References

^ Rondolino p.256
^ Battilani, Patrizia; Bagnaresi, Davide (December 2020). "La spiaggia come luogo di produzione e di consumo: dal modello informale ottocentesco a quello "taylorista" del periodo fra le due guerre". Italia Contemporanea (294): 11–45. doi:10.3280/ic2020-294001. ISSN 0392-1077. S2CID 235056858.
^ Monardes, Nicolás; Ziletti, Giordano. (1575). Delle cose che vengono portate dall'Indie Occidentali pertinenti all'uso della medicina /raccolte & trattate dal Dottor Nicolò Monardes .. : novamente recata dalla Spagnola nella nostra lingua Italiana : dove ancho si tratta de' Veneni, & della lor cura. In Venetia: Presso di Giordano Ziletti. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.7112.