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.
00:13:35 So what? You've all gone fucking crazy as if she was a real queen.
00:17:55 Bravo.
00:26:52 What are you doing here? -Swimming.
00:34:18 #Madonna Clara#!
00:38:59 of habits and hiccups, fever and gripes!
00:42:03 And your brother Davorin is the worst of all devils
00:45:46 Priests would whip me and rap my fingers because I made fun of them.
00:49:31 Leave me here.
00:53:00 Get lost, you disgrace!
00:58:20 What a beautiful whore!
01:06:27 You lied, you son of a bitch!
01:11:34 We also have laws against theft and plunder.
01:13:32 Croatian people will sentence you! -Right!
01:18:55 Davorin! -What? -Our fighters are getting killed on the mainland
01:23:26 #I have three daughters #and I'd like to have a son.
01:30:57 Now open your mouth so I can give you the communion.
01:36:35 You shouldn't have let them go! -What else? -Shoot them!
01:40:58 now and at the hour of our death. Amen.
01:44:43 but you've turned your back on it.
01:48:53 What does it mean, I betrayed the Movement?
01:52:05 Are you afraid of dying?