Pierfrancesco Favino stars in writer-director Edoardo De Angelis’ Venice opener, a true story of an Italian submarine captain who defied orders so he could save lives. By Jordan Mintzer The formidably ...
A 73m x 7m submarine was always going to be a left-field substitute for A-lister Zendaya after Luca Guadagnino’s hotly anticipated tennis movie Challengers was pulled from the Venice Film Festival’s ...
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 ...
The title character of “Comandante,” Salvatore Todaro (Pierfrancesco Favino), is a submarine commander in the Italian Royal Navy who has a different spirit from the military machos we tend to ...
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 ...
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?
When American William Morgan was executed outside a Havana prison on March 11, 1961, his strange story seemed to vanish from the popular imagination as quickly as it had appeared. It was lost in the ...
Italian director Edoardo De Angelis’ anti-war epic “Comandante” – the opener of this year’s Venice Film Festival – has secured North American distribution via Uncork’d Entertainment, which will ...
William Morgan always wanted to "be somebody." After deserting from the Army, spending time in prison and working for the mob, Morgan was ready for a new start. He got his chance as a Comandante ...
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