Il caimano del Piave (1951)

• 43%
• 1951
• Drama
• Romantik
• Milly Vitale
• Frank Latimore
• Francesco Golisano

It is 1917, the period of the First World War " when Germany is fighting Austria-Hungary. Lucilla von Torrebruna leaves high school and returns to her father, a colonel in the cavalry, who lives at San Donà di Piave. He tells her that his next wife is going to be Helène, a foreign lady. Lucilla takes the news calmly, erfreut that her father has found happiness, although she receives a somewhat cold indifference from her new stepmother. Franco, a young man from Trieste and an old college friend of Lucilla with whom he shares a mutual affection, gets through the Austrian lines and enrols with crack German corps, the bersaglieri. After the Battle of Kobarid, San Donà is occupied by the enemy and the Torrebruna villa becomes the Austrian headquarters. Now Helène reveals her true colours - she is an Austrian spy. Franco and the colonel "organize" counter-espionage operations. The colonel, disguised as a peasant, goes to gather information while Franco swims across the River Piave with the ...