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The Roses of the Desert (2006)
Directed by Mario Monicelli
War, Comedy · 1h 42m
A sanitary battalion of Italian Army is sent to Sorman oasis in Lybia during the Africa campaign in 1940. Soon an Italian missionary, living nearby, succeed to transform the occupation by Italian Army in a kind of humanitarian mission. In fact all the battalion is involved to help the local population. The war anyway goes on with no regards to human feelings. The "glorious" Fascist campaign is going to became a fast retreat.
Cast
Michele Placido
Frate Simeone
Alessandro Haber
Maggiore Stefano Strucchi
Giorgio Pasotti
Ten. Marcello Salvi
Claudio Bigagli
Un soldato toscano
Moran Atias
Aisha
Fulvio Falzarano
Sgt. Barzottin
Tatti Sanguineti
T
Tiziano Scarpa
Nicola Acunzo
R
Roberto D'Addario
D
Danilo Nicola De Summa
Francesco Guzzo
Crew
- Director
- Mario Monicelli
- Screenplay
- Alessandro Bencivenni, Domenico Saverni, Mario Monicelli
- Novel
- Mario Tobino, Giancarlo Fusco
- Director of Photography
- Saverio Guarna
- Original Music Composer
- Mino Freda, Paolo Dossena
- Editor
- Bruno Sarandrea
- Producer
- Vittorio Zeviani, Mauro Berardi
Details
- Original title
- Le rose del deserto
- Release date
- 2006-12-01
- Runtime
- 1h 42m
- Genres
- War, Comedy
- Original language
- IT
- Spoken languages
- Italian
- Countries
- Italy
- Production
- Mikado Film, Luna Rossa Cinematografica, RAI Cinema