Many Wars Ago
| Many Wars Ago | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Directed by | Francesco Rosi |
| Written by | Francesco Rosi Raffaele La Capria Tonino Guerra |
| Based on | Emilio Lussu (memoir) |
| Produced by | Francesco Rosi Marina Cicogna |
| Starring | Gian Maria Volonté 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'altipiano[4] ("One year on the plateau").
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[]
1916–17, Italian WWI front.
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 battalion 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...
Cast[]
- Gian Maria Volonté 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
- as Private Marrasi
- as Colonel Stringari
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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