Old Guard
There were very few commercial feature films made during the Italian fascist era that were as openly propagandistic as this famous (notorious?) dramatic paean to the Blackshirts. The story takes place in a small village in Italy in October of 1922, on the eve of the fascist "March on Rome", in which King Victor Emanuel III was persuaded to consign power to Benito Mussolini. Gianfranco Giachetti is Dr. Cardini, a doctor at the local psychiatric hospital, where a strike has been called by the local socialists. Cardini turns to the fascists to help avert the strike. His son Roberto (Mino Doro) rounds up fascist friends to fight those aligned with the strikers and the town's socialists.
Cast
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Gianfranco Giachetti
Played Dott. Claudio Cardin…
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Mino Doro
Played Roberto
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Franco Brambilla
Played Mario
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Maria Puccini
Played La moglie
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Barbara Monis
Played La maestra
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Graziella Antonelli
Played La sorella della mae…
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Ugo Ceseri
Played Marcone
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Umberto Sacripante
Played Il pazzo Tralicò
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Graziela Betti
Played La ragazza del conve…
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Gino Viotti
Played Il sindaco
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Cesare Zoppetti
Played L'assessore
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Aristide Garbini
Played L'uscere
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Italo Tancredi
Played L'infermiere
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Alfredo Varelli
Played il terzo squadrista
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Andrea Checchi
Played Pompeo
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Ugo Sasso
Played Uno squadrista
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Memmo Carotenuto
Played Infermiere
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