本片是一部意大利战争片，由罗伯托·罗西里尼导演，由Alberto Tavazzi/Roswita Schmidt/阿蒂利奥·罗戴德约主演。
剧情简介：An extremely rare film by Roberto Rossellini, his third feature, made under the Fascist control of Italy. Basically rejected after the War because of the Fascist content of the film, "Rossellini produces a work which focuses upon the Italian expeditionary forces on the Eastern Front and upon a Catholic chaplain representative of Italy's religious majority…the principal character's humanity and sacrifice seem to prefigure the good-natured priest of Rome, Open City who works with leftist Resistance leaders…Rossellini underlines the common humanity in Fascist and Bolshevik alike" (Peter Bonadella, Italian Cinema from Neo-Realism to Present).
Made during the fascist years ,this is par excellence a propaganda movie.Roberto Rossellini 's work is sometimes preachy,mainly in the third part,when his hero tries to convince -and succeeds- the Russians that he is no sorcerer and that God loves everyone provided that he redeems his soul and comes back on the right way.The final recalls Jesus's death on the cross,the converted man playing the the good thief's part.Besides ,everybody speaks Italian and that does not help the credibility of the situations.
But Rossellini's genius -which would blossom is such works as " Europa 51" "Roma cita aperta " or " Germano anno zero " occasionally surfaces: except for the opening scenes -one of the first pictures shows doves-,the world depicted in "uomo della croce" is an apocalyptic one,we keep hearing shots during almost the whole movie : overwhelming sequences display a little boy screaming,a woman having her baby as a man is dying near her,while,outside,man's madness knows no bounds.
Man with a Cross was originally released in Italy as L'Uomo della Croce. Evidently, Roberto Rosselini had some difficulty concentrating on this one. He directed the film at the behest of the fascist government, at a time when his thoughts were probably focussed on his long-anticipated (and never-finished) Desiderio. The religious aspects of the plotline tend to be subordinate to the Mussolini party line. Man with a Cross contains next to none of the neorealism of Rossellini's later works
外文名：L' Uomo dalla croce
别名：The Man with the Cross
类型：战争
地区：意大利
导演：罗伯托·罗西里尼
编剧：Asvero Gravelli / 阿尔贝托·孔西利奥 / Giovanni D'Alicandro / 罗伯托·罗西里尼
演员：Alberto Tavazzi / Roswita Schmidt / 阿蒂利奥·罗戴德约 / Doris Hild / Zoia Weneda / Antonio Marietti / Piero Pastore / Aldo Capacci / Franco Castellani / Gualtiero Isnenghi / Antonio Suriano / Marcello Tanzi
