The Bandit (Italian: Il bandito) is a 1946 Italian drama crime film directed by Alberto Lattuada and starring Anna Magnani, Amedeo Nazzari and Carla Del Poggio. It was shot on location in Turin. Nazzari won the Nastro d'Argento as Best Actor for his performance. The film was entered into the 1946 Cannes Film Festival.
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Plot
A contingent of Italian prisoners of war arrive on a train from Germany after World War II to Turin. The city where Ernesto (played by Nazzari) lives has been bombed, his mother is dead and his sister has gone missing. State help for returning veterans is scant and bureaucracy rampant. Ernesto tries to get an honest job, but fails. After finding a lost purse and meeting the dangerously seductive Lidia (played by Anna Magnani), Ernesto discovers the whereabouts of his lost sister (played by Carla del Poggio), who has turned to prostitution to survive during the war years. He unwittingly causes her death, kills her pimp, escapes capture with Lidia's help and joins her gangster band.
Cast
Anna Magnani as Lidia
Amedeo Nazzari as Ernesto
Carla Del Poggio as Maria
Carlo Campanini as Carlo
Eliana Banducci as Rosetta
Mino Doro as Mirko
Folco Lulli as Andrea
Mario Perrone as Il gobbo
Amato Garbini as Il tenutario
Gianni Appelius as Signorina
Ruggero Madrigali as Il negriero
Thea Aimaretti as Tecla, la padrona
Alessandro Tedeschi as Stefano Albertini