Alberto Sordi

Based on the Ernest Hemingway novel and set against the backdrop of the Italian front during World War I, an American Army volunteer (Rock Hudson) meets a British nurse (Jennifer Jones) on the eve of the big offensive in the Alps and they fall passionately in love. Torn apart by war and the jealous meddling of Henry's "friend", Major Rinaldi (Vittorio De Sica), the star-crossed lovers escape to Switzerland to reunite and await the birth of their child and the tragic conclusion to their once-in-a-lifetime romance.

When a good-natured factory supervisor living in Milan with his Northern wife returns to his native Sicily, a decades' old oath forces him to fulfill a nightmarish obligation.

The First World War: On 28 June 1914 the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, was assassinated.This triggered a series of events that led to world war, with the fighting taking place on land, at sea and in the air. The result was the collapse of four empires and the death of more than 15 million people. But the tragedy did not end there and after the war Europe was left so bitterly divided and driven by racial hatred that a second world war loomed on the horizon.

The First World War: On 28 June 1914 the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, was assassinated.This triggered a series of events that led to world war, with the fighting taking place on land, at sea and in the air. The result was the collapse of four empires and the death of more than 15 million people. But the tragedy did not end there and after the war Europe was left so bitterly divided and driven by racial hatred that a second world war loomed on the horizon.