directed by Billy Wilder, starring Franchot Tone, Anne Baxter, Akim Tamiroff, USA 1943, 96 min., b/w, DCP, original version with Italian subtitles

Egypt, World War Two. A British noncommissioned officer takes the place of a spy working for the Germans. Wilder’s second American film as a director is a piece of anti-German wartime propaganda devised to accompany the United States’ decision to enter the war, but with his magical touch the military plot turns into an adventure-cum-comedy, with superb performances from Erich von Stroheim in the role of an icy General Rommel and from a very young yet already splendid Anne Baxter.

Image: Five Graves to Cairo - Courtesy of Park Circus/Universal.

Informazioni

Admission free while places last. Reservations are required

Sala Cinema - Palazzo Esposizioni Roma

Admission via steps in via Milano 9a

Reservations may be made on the Italian version of this page from 9:00 am on the day before the film is due to be screened until one hour before the performance begins. If for any reason you are unable to come, please remember to cancel the reservation in your basket so that someone else can book the place.