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The Great War
Directed by
Mario Monicelli
Approved
1959
2h 17m
Drama
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Comedy
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8.1
40%
94%
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The Italian Army fought against the Austrians during World War I.
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Cast of The Great War
Vittorio Gassman
Giovanni Busacca
Alberto Sordi
Oreste Jacovacci
Silvana Mangano
Costantina
Folco Lulli
Bordin
Bernard Blier
Capitano Castelli
Romolo Valli
Tenente Gallina
Vittorio Sanipoli
Maggiore Venturi
Nicola Arigliano
Giardino
Mario Valdemarin
Sottotenente Lorenzi
Tiberio Mitri
Mandich
Livio Lorenzon
Sergente Barriferri
Tiberio Murgia
Rosario Nicotra
Carlo D'Angelo
Capitano Ferri
Achille Compagnoni
Il Cappellano
Marcello Giorda
Generale
Geronimo Meynier
Il Portadoni
Elsa Vazzoler
Moglie di Bordin
Ferruccio Amendola
De Concini
Guido Celano
Maggiore
Luigi Fainelli
Giacomazzi
Gérard Herter
Capitano Austriaco
Mario Feliciani
(uncredited)
Gianni Baghino
Soldier on Train (uncredited)
Mario Colli
(uncredited)
Mario Frera
(uncredited)
Mario Mazza
(uncredited)
Gian Luigi Polidoro
(uncredited)
Edda Ferronao
(uncredited)
Leandro Punturi
(uncredited)
The Great War Ratings & Reviews
Esquire Magazine
Dwight MacDonald
A melange of incompatible cliches, a museum of the war film, mixing up realism, farce, pathos, horror, and satire, all of them rendered in the broadest way.
Chicago Reader
Pat Graham
[Mario Monicelli] tried his hand at epic comedy in this big-budget dissection of Italian military heroism; the results aren't exactly satisfying.
New York Times
Bosley Crowther
There is no development in it, aside from this string of episodes, which are rotated so monotonously between merry and maudlin that the rhythm tends to get on one's nerves.
Film Quarterly
Vernon Young
Monicelli's tempered wit makes him a formidable contender for a prominent directorial place in the sun, since La Grande Guerra is a funny film haunted by a sickening sense of waste; it's also an adroit piece of move-making.
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