Product Details

• Actors: Roberto Bisacco, Delia Boccardo, Geoffrey Copleston, Ben Cross, Riccardo Cucciolla
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
• VHS Release Date: September 1, 1998
• Run Time: 115 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6301966627
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #16,404 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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26 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Assissi Underground, August 5, 2000

By	"muffntuff" (Brooklyn Park, MN United States) - See all my reviews

Although not filled with hi-tech footages and action packed scenarios, The Assisi Underground is based on a small group of Catholic monasteries and convents in Italy that forms an underground railroad that only rivals Harriet Tubman's Underground Railroad of the 19th Century.

Ben Cross plays a young catholic priest who shows us through his eyes the struggle to keep Italian Jews at bay from the clutches of the Nazi regime that has infiltrated Italy. His ease and care of his charges is charming and thoughtfully played. The young priest finds a godsend through a colonel in the German army who is also a humanitarian, and in seeming unknowing ways helps the priest execute his mission.

Slow at times, this film integrates real WWII film and newspaper clippings to keep time with the events of WWII. Ben Cross's performance speaks multitudes of the anxiety and anticipation of the Third Reich's actions during its occupation of Italy.

History enthusiasts should find it intriguing. Although not filled with hi-tech footages and action packed scenarios, The Assissi Underground is based on a small group of Catholic monastaries and convents in Italy that forms an underground railroad that only rivals Harriet Tubman's Underground Railroad of the 19th Century.

Ben Cross plays a young catholic priest who shows us through his eyes the struggle to keep Italian Jews at bay from the clutches of the Nazi regime that has infiltrated Italy. His ease and care of his charges is charming and thoughtfully played. The young priest finds a god-send through a colonel in the German army who is also a humanitarian, and in unseemingly ways helps the priest excecute his mission.

Slow at times, this film integrates real WWII film and newspaper clippings to keep time with the events of WWII. Ben Cross's performance speaks multitudes of the anxiety and anticipation of the Third Reicht's actions during its occupation of Italy.

History enthusiasts should find it intriguing.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Heart Warming Story, September 15, 2006

By	Maryann Paterson (Riverwood, NSW Australia) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Entertaining Sad Joyous when you forget the reality of the truth
of the story you can enjoy the movie it is long but worth watching I am waiting for it to come out on DVD

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars When will The Assisi Underground be released on DVD?, April 23, 2009

By	z hayes (plano,texas) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER)

"The Assisi Underground" is a 1984 feature that stars Ben Cross as a determined and courageous Catholic priest who risks his own life to rescue thousands of persecuted Jews fleeing the Nazis in WW II Italy. If I'm not mistaken, this is a fact-based story and also stars James Mason and Maximillian Schell. Another movie that also dealt with a Catholic priest aiding Jews and POWs during WW II in Italy was 1983's "The Scarlet and the Black" starring Gregory Peck as a heroic Vatican priest and Christopher Plummer as the ruthless Nazi officer-in-charge.

I watched this on television many years ago and found it a riveting, albeit slow-moving feature. I do wish they would reissue this on DVD so I can add it to my collection of Holocaust-themed dramas.