Inaugurating this year's Venice Film Festival, Edoardo De Angelis' Italian war drama "Comandante" certainly makes for an improbable fall-season kickoff – filling a prime, opening-night slot often ...

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The Venice Film Festival kicks off its 80th edition on Wednesday with Italian director Edoardo De Angelis’s World War Two Italian submarine drama Comandante. The Golden Lion contender was propelled ...

Edoardo De Angelis' anecdotal war movie has a family-of-man message more noble than exciting. But he’s also a saddened romantic warrior with the heart of a poet. As the men prepare to board the sub, ...

The official Comandante trailer for the upcoming World War II drama has been released, featuring acclaimed Italian actor Pierfrancesco Favino as submarine commander Salvatore Todaro. The film has been ...

How do you get away with making a film about an Italian Fascist World War II hero at a time when Italy is being led by a far-right alliance, without it being seen as rampant nationalist propaganda?

Italian A-list actor Pierfrancesco Favino, who just scored a European Film Award nomination for his role in “Nostalgia,” is set to play heroic Sicilian World War II naval officer Salvatore Todaro in ...

Venice film festival: Edoardo de Angelis’s war movie was made in collaboration with the Italian navy, which clarifies the pervasive sense that it’s attempting to launder Italy’s wartime reputation ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Held together by a very strong performance by Pierfrancesco Favino as sub commander Salvatore Todaro, De Angelis' film takes a ...