In the Nazi occupied city of Rome, an assault on an SS brigade draws retaliation from the military governship. "Massacre in Rome" is the true story of how this partisan attack led to the mass execution of Italian nationals under the orders of SS-Lieutenant Colonel Kappler.
Richard Burton Marcello Mastroianni Peter Vaughan Leo McKern John Steiner Anthony Steel Robert Harris Anthony Dawson Guidarino Guidi Renzo Montagnani Dennis Burgess Brook Williams Giancarlo Prete Delia Boccardo Renzo Palmer Duilio Del Prete Gustavo De Nardo Douglas Hare Carlos de Carvalho Jacques Herlin Shirley Corrigan Massimo Sarchielli Kippy Lancaster Nazzareno Natale Luigi Antonio Guerra Fiore Altoviti Ugo Cardea Luca Bonicalzi Giuliano Petrelli Show All…
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Hot damn this was an unconventional war drama that was not only insightful to the inner workings but also a tragic indictment of the political military structure during the time all the while giving you this overlapping religious hierarchy that unfortunately fits lock and goose step with the German regime of the era. You have two great actors here with Richard Burton(Lt. Col. Herbert Kappler) being steely eyed in trying to pensively play out his situation whilst Marcello Mastroianni(Father Pietro Antonelli) giving his dedication to the church and especially art both playing middle management vessels in there equal fields one trying to prevent the demise of human life and the other wanting to remove accusatory self action during the demise…
Marcello Mastroianni and Richard Burton star in this war drama about a real life massacre that occurred in reprisal for the deaths of an SS brigade in Nazi-occupied Rome.
It was very disturbing, especially at the end, and showed the horrors committed by the Germans while occupying Italy. Mastroianni’s character, a priest trying to stop the violence, is based on several people, including Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty, who was played by Gregory Peck in The Scarlet and the Black (which this reminded me of, as it tells a similar story), and the film shows how the Pope turned a blind eye to the violence. The producer and director were taken to court by the Pope’s sister for libel and found guilty…
George P. Cosmatos' film about the events leading up to the Ardeatine massacre in 1944 has been criticised a fair bit over the years for the numerous historical inaccuracies within.
They are criticisms that are justified but in defence of Cosmatos, the artistic liberties he takes with the material, while morally dubious, do make this artistically rather an interesting piece of work. Richard Burton's conflicted Nazi colonel, for instance, is especially well drawn.
While he shows a lot of affinity for working with Rome and indeed for the Italian priest (Marcello Mastroianni), when it comes down to the orders that he has been given, he goes about his affairs in such a ruthlessly efficient and blank-eyed manner, right down to…
Bitter WWII drama about a partisan attack and the German reprisal. Richard Burton plays Herbert Kappler, head of the Sicherheitspolizei. His days of being a proud Nazi are long gone. He's fed up with the war and everything that comes with it, but Befehl ist Befehl. Kappler becomes in charge of compiling a list of more than 300 more or less random Italians who will be executed. A harrowing task and his ordeal doesn't stop there. It took some time for me to get into this sometimes ruggedly filmed affair, but it had me by the throat as soon as Kappler gets his orders and tries to organize the event. Shattering and also infuriating. Thumbs up for how the movie depicts the Nazis and how they handle this massacre. Not a black and white thing. Not all Germans are beasts and, the infuriating part, not all beasts are German. Valuable and powerful film.
Somewhat in the Francesco Rosi manner of newsy reportage whilst squinting at the stylistics of The Conformist. That is, caught between two styles and two positions: moral tract or dramatic reconstruction. The punchy title indicates the direction of travel (the tasteless typography of the poster can be ignored).
To be fair the moral failure of The Vatican on the matter of the 10:1 execution of Italians in reprisal for Nazi soldier deaths is present, as is a degree of turpitude amongst the Germans in carrying out such an act. But these positions get skimmed over in the busyness of A to Z exposition.
Richard Burton and Marcello Mastroianni crisply deliver, and the production itself doesn’t lack integrity, but it’s not enough. The…
"If they follow the rules of the Hague Convention, they'll say that if the people responsible don't come forward, they'll execute hostages."
Pure acid, Italian polemic cinema whose first act anti-fascist partisan attack planning starts this in the vein of The Battle of Algiers (with whom this shares a cinematographer, and, of course, a composer in Morricone) before becoming a grinding, inexorable, granular condemnation of every complicit society structure and attitude in Nazi-allied Rome that led to the execution of 335 Italians, up to and including the Pope himself (something that got the filmmakers sued and sentenced for libel, which how you KNOW it's good).
The scene where Marcello Mastroianni slowly backs away in dazed horror as his superior reads…
Based on screenwriter Robert Katz's own controversial 1967 bestseller, Death in Rome, this 1973 film from journeyman director George Pan Cosmatos tells the true story of the 1944 partisan roadside bombing that killed thirty-three members of the SS Police Regiment Bozen, and the subsequent Nazi reprisal, ordered by Hitler, that saw a staggering 335 Italians executed in what became known as the Ardeatine massacre. Katz's book achieved notoriety because it accused the then incumbent Pope, Pope Pius XII, of kowtowing to the Nazis and refusing to intervene in or condemn the slaughter of innocents. As a result Katz was sued by the Pope's heirs and was incarcerated in gaol.
The film plays fast and loose with history and perhaps the…
Ранний и не то чтобы очень хороший фильм Косматоса на интересную тему — казнь более 300 жителей Рима за 30 эсэсовцев, погибших от взрыва партизанской бомбы.
Ричард Бертон изображает убежденного и верного вояку, который не хочет лишних жертв, но не может ослушатся приказов. Мастроянни — священника, который так и не смог добиться протеста Папы. Актеры хорошие, а кино скучноватое, пресное и явно проигрывающее подобным же провокационным и никого не щадящим драмам другого грека Коста-Гавраса. Разве что финал с бесконечным расстрелом впечатляет, но в отечественном "Чекисте" это снято повнушительней.
This compelling war drama is based on the controversial book "death in Rome", which suggests that the Pope Pius XII was aware of Hitler's plan to kill 10 Italians every German lost in a partisan attack, and either feigned ignorance could do nothing about it.
Col. Kappler (Richard Burton) is a devoted Nazi who is caught between his duty and his love for Rome when he is ordered to execute 330 Italians in retaliation for the deaths of 33 Germans. His alcoholic superior, Kurt Maelzer (Leo Mckem) is determined to see it through. Standing defiant is Don Antonelli (Marcello Mastroianni), a Vatican priest who choose to die with the partisans rather than continue to act as a liaison between the…
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A fictionalised retelling of the Ardeatine massacre which was organised by Herbert Kappler (played by Richard Burton). I hadn't heard of the massacre and found this film very moving, watched on either side of a visit to the cenotaph for Armistice Day, seeing men slaughtered in the course of a war, and as a result of that war, on a day when we formally remember those who have had their lives taken by war.
The way that we saw the choices presented to the occupying German forces in Rome, the Italian authorities and to the Roman Catholic church should make everyone think, and perhaps gain some understanding of why people act in utterly unforgivable ways in wartime.
This is only rated at 6.4 on IMDb, that seems odd to me.
Weird attempt to draw attention to a genuinely shocking event. Massacre in Rome loses points by trying to whitewash a Gestapo offier for no discernable reason; that said officer is played by a give-a-shit mid-career Richard Burton hardly helps, and the whole thing is so mechanical it lacks any impact.
A brutal, horrifying dramatisation of true horror. As with a lot of such movies, it walks a strange path whereby the perpetrators of such true horrors are, even if only subtly, humanised - and the placement of a fictionalised character at the end of Kapplers gun, immediately prior to a list of those killed scrolls in place of credits, on which this character is not, seems to almost undercut the undeniable power of the moment. But taken solely as drama, as I guess it should be, it’s effectiveness is undeniable.
There is a moment, one which I’ve read about in other forms, depicting a young soldier saying he cannot go on, before being led by Kappler to continue the executions,…
