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The Great War (1959)
Directed by Mario Monicelli
“The great battle spectacle of our time!”
Comedy, War, Drama · 2h 17m
Italy, 1916. Oreste Jacovacci and Giovanni Busacca are called, as all the Italian youths, to serve the army in the WWI. They both try in every way to avoid serving the army.
Cast
Vittorio Gassman
Giovanni Busacca
Alberto Sordi
Oreste Jacovacci
Silvana Mangano
Costantina
Folco Lulli
Bordin
Bernard Blier
Capitano Castelli
Romolo Valli
Tenente Gallina
Vittorio Sanipoli
Maggiore Venturi
Nicola Arigliano
Giardino
Mario Valdemarin
Sottotenente Lorenzi
Tiberio Mitri
Mandich
Livio Lorenzon
Sergente Barriferri
Tiberio Murgia
Rosario Nicotra
Crew
- Director
- Mario Monicelli
- Screenplay
- Furio Scarpelli, Mario Monicelli, Agenore Incrocci, Luciano Vincenzoni
- Director of Photography
- Giuseppe Rotunno, Roberto Gerardi
- Original Music Composer
- Nino Rota
- Editor
- Adriana Novelli
- Producer
- Dino De Laurentiis
Details
- Original title
- La grande guerra
- Release date
- 1959-10-28
- Runtime
- 2h 17m
- Genres
- Comedy, War, Drama
- Original language
- IT
- Spoken languages
- German, Italian
- Countries
- France, Italy
- Production
- gray-film, DDL Cinematografica