Special Correspondents (Italian: Inviati speciali) is a 1943 Italian romantic thriller film directed by Romolo Marcellini and starring Dorothea Wieck, Otello Toso and Maurizio D'Ancora. It was produced as a propaganda film in support of the Italian war effort during the Second World War, released a few months before the overthrow of Benito Mussolini's regime.
It was shot at the Farnesina Studios of Titanus in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Alberto Boccianti and Camillo Del Signore.
Synopsis
During the Spanish Civil War an Italian journalist meets a woman he takes to be a colleague, but is in fact a Communist agent. They encounter each other years later during the North African Campaign, where she has a change of heart and heroically sacrifices herself.
Cast
Dorothea Wieck as Lidia Warren
Otello Toso as Renato Marini
Maurizio D'Ancora as L'operatore Galletti
Nerio Bernardi as Il maggiore Alessandri
Mino Doro as Il giornalista Prosperi
Francesco Grandjacquet as Il commissario Michele Kuncef
Carlo Duse as L'ufficiale di Stato Maggiore in Africa
Barbara Ledi as Barbara Wood
Luigi Pavese as Un colonnello
Piero Palermini as Il giovane tenente
Emilio Petacci as Richardson
Otello Cazzola as De Gariata
Mario Brizzolari as Il colonnello Garcia
Maria Teresa Le Beau as L'informatrice
Rita Livesi as La direttrice dell' hotel a Biarritz
Paolo Ferrara as Baldassare
Adele Garavaglia as La signora del telegrafo
Saro Urzì as Un soldato
References
Bibliography
Trubiano, Marisa S. Ennio Flaiano and His Italy: Postcards from a Changing World. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 2010.