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Women and Soldiers (1955)
Directed by Antonio Marchi, Luigi Malerba
Comedy, History · 1h 25m
Donne e soldati was an example of a ‘decentralised’ production, far from Rome, something that for the most part Italian cinema didn’t fully succeed in achieving until the 1990s. . In many ways the film, which is both Picaresque and anti-heroic, was too far ahead of its time, and it is often considered the precursor to Monicelli’s L’armata brancaleone. This time out, Ferreri takes the reins as producer of the ill-fated undertaking (the two directors will never make another film); however, Donne e soldati, apart from marking Ferreri’s estrangement from Italian cinema for a number of years, today appears to display earthy and carnivalesque elements that will subsequently influence certain aspects of the Milanese director’s vision.
Cast
Marco Ferreri
Crew
- Director
- Antonio Marchi, Luigi Malerba
- Writer
- Marco Ferreri, Attilio Bertolucci, Antonio Marchi, Luigi Malerba
- Director of Photography
- Gianni Di Venanzo
- Editor
- Eraldo Da Roma
- Producer
- Luciana Momigliano
Details
- Original title
- Donne e soldati
- Release date
- 1955-11-25
- Runtime
- 1h 25m
- Genres
- Comedy, History
- Original language
- IT
- Spoken languages
- German, Italian, Russian