Uomini contro (internationally released as Many Wars Ago) is a 1970 Italo-Yugoslav anti war drama film directed by Francesco Rosi.[1][2][3] It is based on the novel by Emilio Lussu "Un anno sull'altopiano"[4] The Italian title is (most likely) disambigous and difficult to translate ("Men against" is a word by word translation). However "Un anno sull'altopiano" means "A year on the plateau".
Plot
On the Isonzo front during World War One around 1916-17, Italian army officers demand far too much of their men.
Time after time the soldiers are forced to leave their trenches in attempts to storm the enemy positions, always with the same horrific result. The Austro-Hungarian machine guns inevitably mow them down. In one attack a major is killed, and subsequently every sixth man of his platoon is chosen to be executed by a firing squad of his comrades, in some bizarre kind of compensation for the killed officer. And it gets only worse...
Cast
References
- ↑ Roberto Chiti, Roberto Poppi, Enrico Lancia. Dizionario del cinema italiano - I film. Gremese Editore.
- ↑ Pasquale Iaccio. La Storia sullo schermo: il Novecento. Pellegrini Editore, 2004.
- ↑ Francesco Bolzoni. I Film Di Francesco Rosi. Gremese Editore, 1986.
- ↑ http://digilander.libero.it/davis2/lezioni/fotocine/film/uomini%20contro.htm (In Italian, but the first line is
almost impossible to not understand, in blue. "romanzo" means "novel" by the way)
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