The Great War

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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Release date

28 Oct 1959

Runtime

2 h 17 min

• TMDB 8.1

Genres

• Comedy
• War
• Drama

Director

Mario Monicelli

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Countries

• FR
• IT

Cast

Vittorio Gassmanas Giovanni BusaccaAlberto Sordias Oreste JacovacciSilvana Manganoas CostantinaFolco Lullias BordinBernard Blieras Capitano CastelliRomolo Vallias Tenente GallinaVittorio Sanipolias Maggiore VenturiNicola Ariglianoas GiardinoMario Valdemarinas Sottotenente LorenziTiberio Mitrias Mandich

Writers

Luciano VincenzoniFurio ScarpelliMario MonicelliAgenore Incrocci

Composer

Nino Rota

Cinematography

Giuseppe RotunnoRGRoberto Gerardi

Studios

gray-filmDCDDL Cinematografica

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