The Secret of Santa Vittoria

The Secret of Santa Vittoria is a 1969 film produced by Metro Goldwyn Mayer, and distributed by United Artists. It was produced and directed by Stanley Kramer and coproduced by George Glass from a screenplay by Ben Maddow and William Rose. It was based on the bestselling novel by Robert Crichton. The music score was by Ernest Gold and the cinematography by Giuseppe Rotunno.

During World War II in the summer of 1943, in the aftermath of the fall of the Fascist government of Benito Mussolini, the German army uses the ensuing political vacuum to occupy most of the peninsula of Italy.Italo Bombolini Anthony Quinn, the mayor of the winemaking hill town of Santa Vittoria, learns that the German occupation forces want to take all of Santa Vittorias wine with them. The townspeople frantically hide a million bottles in a cave before the arrival of a German army detachment under the command of Sepp von Prum Hardy Kruger. ........

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