We Want the Colonels (1973)
Vogliamo i colonnelli
Overview
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!
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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! We Want the Colonels is a Comedy movie, released on 1973-03-02, runtime 102 minutes.
Is We Want the Colonels worth watching?
TMDB users rate We Want the Colonels 6.7 out of 10 from 39 ratings. Reception is mixed-to-positive.
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Directed by
Mario Monicelli
Cast
- Ugo Tognazzi as On. Giuseppe Tritoni
- Claude Dauphin as Il Presidente della Repubblica
- Duilio Del Prete as Monsignor Sartorello
- Giuseppe Maffioli as Colonnello Barbacane
- Carla Tatò as Marcella Bassi-Lega
- François Périer as On. Gigino Di Cori
- Lino Puglisi as On. Li Masi
- Pino Zac as Armando Caffè
- Tino Bianchi as On. Mazzante
- Antonino Faà di Bruno as Colonnello Ribaud
- Vincenzo Falanga as Tarcisio "Ciccio" Introna
- Giancarlo Fusco as Colonnello Furas
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