Texas '46

1h 36min

Drama

History

War

Based on a true story its the untold story of Italian World War II POW"S in Jan 1946. Luca Zingaretti stars as one of over 50,000 Italian Prisoners of War detained at POW camps in the U.S. Roy Schneider stars as Colonel Gartner, the Commander of the camp. Things take a turn for the worse when Manin is brought back from his most recent escape by a patrol force, only to realize that the camp has been evacuated while he was gone. Gartner is forced to keep Manin at the camp until another patrol force can come pick him up. However, no one ever comes. The phone lines get cut, and the two men realize they are completely isolated from the outside world. It is up to each man now to escape the camp.An untold and rarely known fact of US held Italian POW"S

Production Companies

MiC

Telepiù

Veradia Film

RAI

Cast

Roy Scheider

Roy Scheider

Colonel Gartner
Luca Zingaretti

Luca Zingaretti

Luigi Manin
Robert Farrior

Robert Farrior

tenente Donovan
Vincent Riotta

Vincent Riotta

prigioniero italiano
Mario Opinato

Mario Opinato

tenente Carlo Ticinà

Release date

11th Jan 2002

Status

Released

Spoken languages

English, Italiano