Italy / Yugoslavia,
1970, 100 min
Directed by:
Francesco RosiCinematography:
Pasqualino De SantisComposer:
Piero PiccioniCast:
Marc Frechette, Alain Cuny, Gian Maria Volonté, Pier Paolo Capponi, Giampiero Albertini, Franco Graziosi, Daria Nicolodi, Francesco D'Adda, Gianni Pulone (more)Plots(1)
In Northern Italy, WWI has turned into a bloody stalemate. Bogged down in their trenches on a barren highland, the men of an Italian infantry division have been given one objective: retake a commanding height from the enemy. Unfortunately, the tactical ingenuity of general Leone, the unpopular division commander, consists of supplementing frontal attacks against machine-guns with medieval fighting schemes. (official distributor synopsis)
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