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The Four Days of Naples (Italian: Quattro giornate di Napoli) was an uprising in Naples, Italy, against Nazi German occupation forces from September 27 to September 30, 1943, immediately prior to the arrival of Allied forces in Naples on October 1 during World War II.
Following the truce between Italy and the Allies in World War II, German forces occupy Naples and begin to shoot resisters, demolish port facilities and round up young men to be transported to Germany as forced labour.
The Four Days of Naples: Directed by Nanni Loy. With Raffaele Barbato, Charles Belmont, Regina Bianchi, Silvana Buzzanca. The film shows the history of the Neapolitan popular revolt against the invading Germans during World War II.
The film is a historical reenactment of events leading up to September 27-30, 1943, four days during World War II when the people of Naples rose up against the Germans.
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In retribution, the Germans publicly execute an innocent sailor and round up the male inhabitants of the city for deportation to German labor camps. However, starting on September 28 the people of Naples organize a four-day rebellion against the Germans in an attempt to drive them out of the city.
Armed with makeshift weapons, the Neapolitan civilians spontaneously rise up en masse against their occupants—and overwhelming odds, driving them from the city after four days of fighting.
The Four Days of Naples were four days of intense fighting between the Neapolitan population and the German occupying forces, four days when Naples became a urban battlefield and men, women and children, scrounging whatever weapons they could, engaged in guerrilla warfare against better trained and equipped German soldiers and forced them out ...
Neapolitans slung on rifles and guns or armed themselves with stones, house-objects, gasoline-bottles, anything and everything, anonymous and silent. Gennarino Capuozzo, a 10-year-old killed on a barricade while he was fighting against the invaders, is remembered as a hero. — Adalberto Fornario.
The Four Days of Naples is a film directed by Nanni Loy with Regina Bianchi, Aldo Giuffrè, Lea Massari, Jean Sorel .... Year: 1962. Original title: Le quattro giornate di Napoli. Synopsis: The film shows the history of the Neapolitan popular revolt against the invading Germans, during the second world war.
"The Four Days of Naples" (aka "Le quattro giornate di Napoli"), the 1962 Italian war drama (w/ English subs), featuring Lea Massari, Jean Sorel, Gian Maria ...
