Reżyseria:
Francesco RosiZdjęcia:
Pasqualino De SantisMuzyka:
Piero PiccioniObsada:
Marc Frechette, Alain Cuny, Gian Maria Volonté, Pier Paolo Capponi, Giampiero Albertini, Franco Graziosi, Daria Nicolodi, Francesco D'Adda (więcej)VOD (1)
Opisy(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. (oficjalny tekst dystrybutora)
(więcej)Recenzje (1)
The soldier who refuses to run towards the slaughterhouse, and the soldier who escapes from the meat grinder to the Austrian enemy with cries of "Comrade" are textbook cowards and deserters. Supposedly, it is legitimate to execute them with all military pomp, with a neatly arranged firing squad facing the ones being executed. On the other hand, a soldier calls for the cessation of killing among those who are only victims of war, farmers and workers in uniforms, and citizens (who are equal, so why are the officers the masters of the life and death of the lower ranks?). And thus, he is shot - from behind. There is no difference between the two cases, both are unjust, and both are repulsive. The repulsiveness of all old-fashioned, pompous, arrogant haughtiness and swollen ego personified by the old general is almost textbook. The film is artistically and professionally excellently mastered, but it does not surpass the category of perfectly mastered average.
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