The Siege of the Alcazar

The Siege of the Alcazar
Directed byAugusto Genina
Written byAugusto Genina
Alessandro De Stefani
Pietro Caporilli
StarringFosco Giachetti
Mireille Balin
Maria Denis
CinematographyFrancesco Izzarelli
Vincenzo Seratrice
Jan Stallich
Edited byFernando Tropea
Music byAntonio Veretti
Release dates
Italy:
20 August 1940
Running time
99 (cut) minutes
119 (restored) minutes
CountriesItaly
Spain
LanguageItalian

The Siege of the Alcazar or L'Assedio dell'Alcazar is a 1940 Italian war film directed by Augusto Genina about the famous siege of the Alcázar during the Spanish Civil War, set in Toledo, Spain. The film won the Mussolini Cup in Venice Film Festival for being the Best Italian Film. The film runs more in the Spanish dubbed version, it was restored by Filmoteca Española and released in DVD in Spain by Divisa Home Video. The film was shot in Cinecittà with Italian, French and Spanish actors. In the Italian version all three non-Italian actors (Mireille Balin, Rafael Calvo and Carlos Muñoz) spoke their lines in Italian. They were dubbed by Italian actors afterwards.


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