Many Wars Ago
| Many Wars Ago | |
|---|---|
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| Directed by | Francesco Rosi |
| Written by | Francesco Rosi Raffaele La Capria Tonino Guerra |
| Produced by | Francesco Rosi Marina Cicogna |
| Starring | Gian Maria Volontè Alain Cuny Pier Paolo Capponi |
| Cinematography | Pasqualino De Santis |
| Edited by | Ruggiero Mastroianni |
| Music by | Piero Piccioni |
| Distributed by | Dubrava Film |
Release date | 1970 |
Running time | 101 min |
| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian |
Uomini contro (internationally released as Many Wars Ago) is a 1970 Italo-Yugoslav anti war drama film directed by Francesco Rosi.[1][2][3] It is based on the memoir by Emilio Lussu, Un anno sull'altopiano[4] The original title means "Men against (each other)".
The film was screened at the 65th Berlin International Film Festival in honor of Francesco Rosi, who had died a few weeks before.[5]
Plot
On the Trentino Front during World War I around 1916–17, Italian army officers demand far too much of their men.
Time after time the soldiers are forced to leave their trenches in attempts to storm the enemy positions, always with the same horrific result. The Austro-Hungarian machine guns inevitably mow them down. In one attack a major is killed during a mutiny, and subsequently every tenth man of his battallion is chosen to be executed by a firing squad of his comrades, in some bizarre kind of compensation for the killed officer. And it gets only worse...
References
In the movie it is possible to see in a scene the type of Brewster Body Shield, an armour used by U.S.Army in World War I and called in the movie "Corazze Fasina", which refers to the Corazze Farina, the armour actually in use by the Italian Royal Army in WWI.
Cast
- Gian Maria Volontè as Lieutenant Ottolenghi
- Pier Paolo Capponi as Lieutenant Santini
- Alain Cuny as General Leone
- Franco Graziosi as Major Malchiodi
- Mark Frechette as Lieutenant Sassu
- Nino Vingelli as Wounded Private
- Mario Feliciani as the Medical Officer
- Giampiero Albertini as Captain Abbati
- Daria Nicolodi as Red Cross Nurse
References
- ^ Roberto Chiti; Roberto Poppi; Enrico Lancia. Dizionario del cinema italiano – I film. Gremese Editore.
- ^ Pasquale Iaccio. La Storia sullo schermo: il Novecento. Pellegrini Editore, 2004.
- ^ Francesco Bolzoni. I Film Di Francesco Rosi. Gremese Editore, 1986.
- ^ http://digilander.libero.it/davis2/lezioni/fotocine/film/uomini%20contro.htm (in Italian)
- ^ Scott Roxborough (13 January 2015). "Berlin Festival to Screen 'Many Wars Ago' in Honor of Francesco Rosi". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 11 May 2015.
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