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The Good War
(2002)
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The Good War
(2002)
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| Robert Farrior | ... |
Lt. Donovan
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| Roy Scheider | ... |
Colonel Gartner
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Luca Zingaretti | ... |
Luigi Manin
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| Vincent Riotta | ... |
Italian POW
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| Sue Cremin | ... |
Betty
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| Charles Fathy | ... |
Luca
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Giampiero Judica | ... |
Fabio
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Luciano Miele | ... |
Italo
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| Mario Opinato | ... |
Lieutenant Carlo Ticinà
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Asya Chakarova | ... |
Ana
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| Christo Jivkov | ... |
Gartner's Son
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| Nicholas M. Loeb | ... |
Lieutenant Trench
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Laura Serafini | ... |
Farmer's daughter
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Based on a true story its the untold story of Italian World War II POW"S in Jan 1946. Luca Zingaretti stars as one of over 50,000 Italian Prisoners of War detained at POW camps in the U.S. Roy Schneider stars as Colonel Gartner, the Commander of the camp. Things take a turn for the worse when Manin is brought back from his most recent escape by a patrol force, only to realize that the camp has been evacuated while he was gone. Gartner is forced to keep Manin at the camp until another patrol force can come pick him up. However, no one ever comes. The phone lines get cut, and the two men realize they are completely isolated from the outside world. It is up to each man now to escape the camp.An untold and rarely known fact of US held Italian POW"S Written by grubber
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