Old Guard
1934, Italian. Directed by Alessandro Blasetti.
There were very few commercial feature films made during the Italian fascist era that were as openly propagandistic as this famous (notorious?) dramatic paean to the Blackshirts. The story takes place in a small village in Italy in October of 1922, on the eve of the fascist "March on Rome", in which King Victor Emanuel III was persuaded to consign power to Benito Mussolini. Gianfranco Giachetti is Dr. Cardini, a doctor at the local psychiatric hospital, where a strike has been called by the local socialists. Cardini turns to the fascists to help avert the strike. His son Roberto (Mino Doro) rounds up fascist friends to fight those aligned with the strikers and the town's socialists.
- Runtime
- 1h 25m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Italian
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Cast & crew
- Alessandro BlasettiDirector
- Gianfranco GiachettiDott. Claudio Cardini
- Mino DoroRoberto
- Franco BrambillaMario
- Maria PucciniLa moglie
- Barbara MonisLa maestra
- Graziella AntonelliLa sorella della maestra
- Ugo CeseriMarcone
- Umberto SacripanteIl pazzo Tralicò
- Graziela BettiLa ragazza del convento
- Gino ViottiIl sindaco
- Cesare ZoppettiL'assessore
- Aristide GarbiniL'uscere
Details
- Released
- 1 June 1934
- Original title
- Vecchia guardia
- Country
- Italy
- Written by
- Alessandro Blasetti, Leo Bomba, Livio Apolloni
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Old Guard (1934) was directed by Alessandro Blasetti and stars Gianfranco Giachetti, Mino Doro, Franco Brambilla.