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The Great War ( Italian: La grande guerra) is a 1959 Italian comedy-drama war film directed by Mario Monicelli. It tells the story of an odd couple of army buddies in World War I; the movie, while played on a comedic register, does not hide from the viewer the horrors and grimness of trench warfare.
The Great War: Directed by Mario Monicelli. With Alberto Sordi, Vittorio Gassman, Bernard Blier, Folco Lulli. The Italian Army fought against the Austrians during World War I.
- (4.6K)
- Comedy, Drama, War
- Mario Monicelli
- 1959-10-28
It is close in spirit to pre WWII big humanist war epics, but with stronger undercurrent of sickness. War here is a big conspiracy towards a death spiral. Review by marti ★★★★★
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- Gray-Film, Dino De Laurentiis Cinematografica
- Mario Monicelli
The Great War (Italian: La grande guerra) is a 1959 Italian film directed by Mario Monicelli. It tells the story of an odd couple of army buddies in World War I; the movie, while played on a comedic register, does not hide from the viewer the horrors and grimness of trench warfare.
- Mario Monicelli
The Italian Army fought against the Austrians during World War I. Italy, 1916. Oreste Jacovacci and Giovanni Busacca are conscripted, as all the Italian youths, to serve the army in the WWI. They meet at the recruiting office where Giovanni bribes Oreste in the hope of securing a medical deferment, however the joke is on him when Oreste pulls ...
The Great War is a 1959 Italian comedy-drama war film directed by Mario Monicelli. It tells the story of an odd couple of army buddies in World War I; the movie, while played on a comedic register, does not hide from the viewer the horrors and grimness of trench warfare.
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The film is an ironic account of life in the trenches on the Italian front of World War I and the vicissitudes of a group of comrades fighting there in 1916. It is narrated in a simultaneously neorealist and romantic idiom, combining typical features of Italian comedy with attention to historical detail.
