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Cefalonia

  • Drama
  • History
  • TV Movie

October 29, 2005 (IT)

2h 16m

The true story of Captain Corelli's Mandolin

Cefalonia tells the real story about what happened in September 1943 on the Greek island of Kefalonia (Cefalonia in Italian), when the 12,000 men in the Italian 33rd Acqui Infantry Division, following Italy's surrender to the Allied, refused to put themselves under German command...

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