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The Great War is a 1959 Italian-French black-and-white comedy drama film directed by Mario Monicelli. The screenplay was written by Monicelli, Luciano Vincenzoni, Agenore Incrocci, and Furio Scarpelli, with music composed by Nino Rota. Produced by Dino De Laurentiis, the film features Alberto Sordi, Vittorio Gassman, Silvana Mangano, and Romolo Valli in the cast. Leonida Barboni, Roberto Gerardi, and Giuseppe Rotunno served as directors of photography, while Mario Garbuglia and Danilo Donati handled production and costume design, respectively.
The narrative is set in Italy and focuses on World War I during the 1910s. The film has a runtime of 137 minutes and was released in September and October 1959. It received the Golden Lion award and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film. The movie holds a vote average of 8.078 on TMDb and an 8.1 rating on IMDb. It is included in the Golden Lion collection and described by the source 100 Italian films to be saved.
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8.1Italy, 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 as Giovanni Busacca
- Alberto Sordi as Oreste Jacovacci
- Silvana Mangano as Costantina
- Folco Lulli as Bordin
- Bernard Blier as Capitano Castelli
- Romolo Valli as Tenente Gallina
Themes
- world war i
- 1910s
- war
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Mario Monicelli
- Written by
- Agenore Incrocci , Mario Monicelli, Furio Scarpelli , Luciano Vincenzoni
- Produced by
- Dino De Laurentiis
- Starring
- Alberto Sordi , Vittorio Gassman , Folco Lulli , Bernard Blier , Romolo Valli , Silvana Mangano
- Cinematography
- Giuseppe Rotunno , Leonida Barboni , Roberto Gerardi , Giuseppe Serrandi
- Edited by
- Adriana Novelli
- Music by
- Nino Rota
- Release date
- September 1959 ( 1959-09 ) (premiere at VFF )
- Running time
- 135 minutes
- Countries
- Italy, France
- Language
- Italian
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Encyclopedic overview
The Great War (Italian: La grande guerra) is a 1959 Italian comedy-drama war film directed by Mario Monicelli. It tells the story of an odd couple of army buddies in World War I; the movie, while played on a comedic register, does not hide from the viewer the horrors and grimness of trench warfare. Starring Alberto Sordi and Vittorio Gassman and produced by Dino De Laurentiis, the film won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. Its crew also included Danilo Donati (costumes) and Mario Garbuglia (set designer).
It was an Academy Award nominee as Best Foreign Film. In 2008, the film was included on the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage's 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that "have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978." It won huge success outside Italy, especially in France.
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