The Fall of Italy (Serbo-Croatian: Pad Italije) is a 1981 Yugoslav war film by Croatian director Lordan Zafranović.
[2] On a Dalmatian island, the partisan commander Davorin (Daniel Olbrychski) liquidates, according to the party's understanding, an immoral friend and comrade Nika (Frano Lasić) and his lover, Krasna (Snežana Savić), an Italian collaborator.
Owing to Davorin's negligence, the Nazis, Ustashe and Chetniks arrive on the island after Italy capitulates.
[3] The fall of Italy causes armies to mobilise, leads to panic, skirmishes, cruelty and incentifies revenge.
The commander of a partisan unit, a man dedicated to the cause, falls in love with a girl whose father is a landowner and traitor.