The Fall of Italy
1981 · 117 MIN · IMDB 6.7 · 365 VOTES · DIR. Lordan Zafranović
Overview
The setting is the islands off the Dalmatian coast of Yugoslavia, during WW II. The islands are controlled by occupying Italian forces, and a resistence movement of Communists is dedicated to sabotaging and ending the occupation. When a wealthy young man joins the resistence, he falls in love with a woman who turns out to be a spy for the Italians. As a result of his liaison and her activity, they are both executed by a Communist comrade - a previous friend. The comrade is dedicated to the hard-line policies of the resistence, until he himself falls in love with the daughter of a bourgeois landowner on the island - a landowner who has collaborated with the Italians. Neither the Italian occupying army (one officer is shown in an attempted rape scene) nor the resistence fighters are stereotyped forces for good or evil, but all are equally subject to the dehumanizing effects of war.
Dialogue Timeline — 677 lines
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00:00:05 A film by Lordan Zafranoviæ
00:07:08 And you're not the only one she has!
00:11:06 Just as I pray and go to confession myself.
00:13:38 She is to me.
00:17:59 Here, take these apples. -Thank you.
00:26:59 Why are you looking at me like that?
00:34:30 Mrs... Please.
00:39:24 No! You mustn't kiss the Mother!
00:42:15 Where's oil and wine, honey and ham, as I advised you?
00:45:59 and I would say I did. Can you preach then?
00:49:45 It would be good if they were saying nice things, but they aren't.
00:53:27 Leave me alone!
00:59:17 No!
01:07:03 Long live people's justice!
01:11:56 Arrest him! -What is all this, brother Davorin?
01:13:57 Don't soil your hands! He's full of sin and misfortune!
01:19:18 Your younger brother Lovre
01:24:49 Let's go down there.
01:33:57 Long live Davorin!
01:38:31 The port is down there. You have to go that way.
01:42:39 Now go to your Partisan son.
01:45:29 Until they decide, you're assigned as a fighter to the First Company.
01:49:35 I've told you, I don't drink.
01:57:03 THE END