1959 2h 17m Mario Monicelli

The Great War

Name: The Great War
Genre: Comedy, War & Military, Drama, Made in Europe
Released: 1959
Rating: 8.1
Cast: Vittorio Gassman, Alberto Sordi, Silvana Mangano, Folco Lulli

★ 8.1 IMDb

Comedy War & Military Drama Made in Europe

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.

Writers Mario Monicelli, Furio Scarpelli, Agenore Incrocci, Luciano Vincenzoni

Cast Vittorio Gassman, Alberto Sordi, Silvana Mangano, Folco Lulli

DP Giuseppe Rotunno

Production Designer Mario Garbuglia

Music Nino Rota

Essays and Criticism

On Mario Monicelli

Mario Monicelli: Still Alive and Kicking By Sergei Lavrentiev by Sergei Lavrentiev, FIPRESCI Monicelli Revisited: Empathy and Sin by Duncan Gray, MUBI Notebook

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Awards & Festivals

Nominated International Submission to the Academy Awards