2019
6.4 (7 votes)
1h 10m
Official Website
Genres
Drama
History
War
Production Companies
Kiné
Istituto Luce Cinecittà
Home Movies
RAI
Istituto Luce Cinecittà
Home Movies
RAI
Once More Unto the Breach (Il varco)
Overview
July, 1941. After the beginning of the German invasion, an Italian soldier, a veteran of the colonial wars, is sent to the Soviet front. As he remembers the fairy tales his Russian mother used to tell him, the train he is travelling in crosses Europe on its way to the vast Ukrainian plains, where the enemy and a cruel winter await him… (Based on the experiences of several Italian soldiers.)
Key Crew
Director: Federico Ferrone, Michele Manzolini
Screenplay: Michele Manzolini, Federico Ferrone, Giovanni Cattabriga
Producer: Claudio Giapponesi
Director of Photography: Andrea Vaccari
Top Cast
Emidio Clementi
Narrator (voice)
Iana Kichenko
Narrator (voice)
Italo Balbo
Self (archive footage)
Ewald von Kleist
Self (archive footage)
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