Events Calendar · October 2024
Italian Film Festival Featuring "The War Machine" at Angelico Hall, Dominican University
Date: Saturday, October 12, 2024
Time: 5:30pm and 8:00pm
Presented by Lido Cantarutti, the Italian Film Festival started out as an informal one-time only presentation of Italian movies in a college lecture hall. Now celebrating 46 years, the Italian Film Festival of Marin County is on Saturdays from September 28 - November 2, 2024. Mr. Cantarutti has presnted appearances from Italian film directors and composers, dignitaries of the Italian and Italian-American communities, and an authentically Italian atmosphere at every presentation.
All films are in Italian or original language with subtitles in English. All films are suggested for mature audiences.
"The War Marchine" ("COMANDANTE") is a 2023 biography/drama/history in color and lasts 122 minutes.
Directed by Edoardo De Angelis, with Pierfrancesco Favino, Massimiliano Rossi, and Silvia D'Amico.
At the beginning of the Second World War Salvatore Todaro is in command of the submarine Cappellini of the Italian Royal Navy. While navigating in the Atlantic in 1940 the outline of a merchant ship comes into view, sailing without lights through the darkness of the night. She is the Kabalo, which later turns out to be a Belgian vessel, and suddenly opens fire on the submarine.
A brief but fierce battle ensues in which Todaro sinks the enemy ship. The commander makes a decision that will go down in history: to rescue the Belgian crew and tow their lifeboat to the nearest safe port, as required by the law of the sea. To do so he was obliged to remain on the surface for three days, exposing the submarine to enemy forces and risking his own life and that of his men.
Asked by the captain of the Kabalo why he had been willing to take such a risk, disregarding the instructions of his own superiors, Salvatore Todaro responded with the words that have made him a legend: "The others do not have, like me, two thousand years of civilization behind them!" More details on film festival here
Additional Location or Other Information
Angelico Concert Hall at Dominican University of California Campus 20 Olive Avenue, San Rafael
