We Want the Colonels (1973)
March 2, 1973
Comedy
1h 42m
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Italy 1973. Giuseppe Tritoni (Ugo Tognazzi) is an ultra-right-wing congressman that doesn't agree anymore with his fascist party policy. He contacts many Italian Army officers and built a net of relationship in order to organize a Coup d'Etat (Golpe). Something goes wrong and the Interior Minister (Home Secretary) Mr. Li Masi (Lino Pugliesi) got the all information about the attempted Golpe. So the Minister organizes a counter-Golpe. Tritoni desperately, to save his project, kidnaps the Italian Republic President (Claude Dauphin) that immediately dies for heartache. Now Minister Mr. Li Masi is free to lay down the law to the rest of the country, realizing basically the actual Golpe! Tritoni surrenders and will spend rest of his time trying to sell his ideas about managing Golpe in Africa!
Cast & Crew
- Director
- Mario Monicelli
- On. Giuseppe Tritoni Ugo Tognazzi
- Il Presidente della Repubblica Claude Dauphin
- Monsignor Sartorello Duilio Del Prete
- Colonnello Barbacane Giuseppe Maffioli
- Marcella Bassi-Lega Carla Tatò
- On. Gigino Di Cori François Périer
- On. Li Masi Lino Puglisi
- Contessa Amelia Di Amatrice Barbara Herrera
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Keywords
- politics
- fascism
- coup d'etat
- satire
- military coup