Scene of the film "L'Assedio dell'Alcazar", top Italian movie of 1940. The film was shot in the exteriors at the true Toledo's Alcazar, and in the interiors ate the Cinecittà Studios in Rome. DVX

Troop in the Alcazar

Scene of the film "L'Assedio dell'Alcazar", top Italian movie of 1940, directed by Augusto Genina. DVX

1940's Top movie

Erich Maria Remarque was born in Osnabrück, Germany, in 1898 into a lower-middle-class family. In 1916, he was drafted into the German army to fight in World War I, in which he was badly wounded. Ten years after the war ended, he published Im Westen Nichts Neues, translated into English a year later as All Quiet on the Western Front, a novel about the experiences of ordinary German soldiers during the war.Remarque and his wife divorced in Switzerland but eventually remarried so that she could retain her Swiss residency. In 1939, he followed the path of many persecuted German intellectuals and immigrated to the United States, where he obtained citizenship in 1947. His family was not so lucky: the Nazis killed his sister during World War II, in part because of her relationship to him. Remarque and his wife had separated; in 1951, they finally ended their estranged marriage.