The Great War
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10/28/1959Runtime
137 minsOverview
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.
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A tragicomic portrait of two young Italian men desperately scheming to evade conscription during WWI, balancing laugh-out-loud absurdity with the creeping dread of inevitable fate. The film mines dark humor from their doomed attempts at avoidance while the machinery of war tightens around them.
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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
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