Italian actor Giuseppe Cocchi playing the role of Captain Alfonso Crivelli in the mid 2000’s Italian TV series, “Attraverso le generazioni” (Through the Generations).
The series had three seasons with thirty episodes per season with each season telling the tale of one of the generations of the fictional Crivelli family, a family of loyal fascists who dutifully serve their motherland through the trials of war. The first of the generation, Captain Alfonso Venusto Crivelli, fights in the Third Balkan War, the Second World War, and the Chinese War. He is a tough no nonsense officer and advent supporter of the Jewish people (as he himself is half-Jewish).
Alfonso with an officer of the defeated Wehrmacht forces in Salzburg, Austria during the Italian seizure of the city.
The second generation, that of Giovanni Crivelli (Alfonso’s son, who was ten years old when his father went off to fight in the Balkans) chronicles Giovanni’s role as a military advisor/trainer to the Israeli army during the Second Arabian War culminating in his decision to join in combat the young Israeli men and women whose training he was in charge of when news of the Yom Kippur Rocket Attacks reaches his barracks.
The third generation details the military service of Alfonso’s grandson, Marco, who fights in Italy’s ill-fated colonial war in Ethiopia. Marco sees the horrors of the war and even participates in atrocities against Ethiopian natives. The series ends a couple of days after the thermonuclear strike on Addis Ababa as Marco reflects on the things he’s seen and done. He finds he can’t go on living with the guilt and so after bidding his comrades farewell, giving his best friend a letter for his sweetheart back home in Naples, Marco walks off the side of a dirt road and shoots himself in the head.
Lorenzo Stefano Bianchi, the actor who played Marco Crivelli.