Lo sconosciuto di San Marino ("The Unknown Man of San Marino") is a 1946 Italian drama film directed by Michał Waszyński and starring Anna Magnani, Vittorio De Sica and Antonio Gandusio.Sieglohr p.156
It was shot at the Icet Studios in Milan and on location around the Republic of San Marino where it is set. The screenwriter Cesare Zavattini and the actors Anna Magnani and Vittorio De Sica were key figures in the neorealist movement which was at its height when the film was made.
Synopsis During the closing stages of the Second World War, refugees pour into San Marino. One of them is a foreigner who has apparently lost his memory. Liana, a prostitute, is very sympathetic towards him. He also bonds with members of the Polish Army he encounters. However, during a religious procession to mark the fall of the German Gothic Line, he is jolted by the memory of an atrocity he committed while serving with German forces against a similar procession. Filled with remorse, he commits suicide by walking into a minefield.
Cast Anna Magnani as Liana, la prostituta Vittorio De Sica as Leo, l'ateo Aurel Milloss as Lo sconosciuto Antonio Gandusio as Don Antonio, il prete Renata Bogdanska as Wanda Irma Gramatica as Agata Franca Belli as Beatrice Giuseppe Porelli as Filippo, l'autista Fausto Guerzoni as Marino Aristide Garbini as il cerimoniere Enrico Maria Salerno as MP Wolf
References
Bibliography Chiti, Roberto & Poppi, Roberto. Dizionario del cinema italiano: Dal 1945 al 1959. Gremese Editore, 1991. Sieglohr, Ulrike. Heroines Without Heroes: Reconstructing Female and National Identities in European Cinema, 1945–51. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016.
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