Film

A Pilot Returns

5.219421h 21mDrama War

Director: Roberto Rossellini
Year: 1942

A young Italian pilot is interned in a British prison camp after his plane is shot down during the war against Greece. He falls in love with a doctor's daughter and manages to escape during a bombardment. He reaches home, wounded, just as news arrives of the Greek surrender.

Top cast

Massimo Girotti

Lieutenant Gino Rossati

Michela Belmonte

Anna

Gaetano Masier

Lieutenant Trisotti

Piero Lulli

De Santis

Nino Brondello

Lieutenant Vittali

Giovanni Valdambrini

Doctor, Anna's Father

Elvira Betrone

Mrs. Rossati, Gino's Mother

Piero Palermini

A Young English Officer

Jole Tinta

Mother of the Sick Child

Directed by

Roberto Rossellini

Written by

Vittorio Mussolini, Michelangelo Antonioni, Massimo Mida, Margherita Maglione

Produced by

Vittorio Mussolini