We Want the Colonels( 1973)

TV-MAComedy

66%

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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!

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Ugo Tognazzi
On. Giuseppe Tritoni
Claude Dauphin
Il Presidente della Repubblica
Duilio Del Prete
Monsignor Sartorello
Giuseppe Maffioli
Colonnello Barbacane
Carla Tatò
Marcella Bassi-Lega
François Périer
On. Gigino Di Cori
Lino Puglisi
On. Li Masi
Pino Zac
Armando Caffè
Tino Bianchi
On. Mazzante
Antonino Faà di Bruno
Colonnello Ribaud
Vincenzo Falanga
Tarcisio "Ciccio" Introna
Giancarlo Fusco
Colonnello Furas
Barbara Herrera
Contessa Amelia Di Amatrice
Renzo Marignano
Tenente Branzino
Camillo Milli
Colonnello Aguzzo
Alberto Postorino
il colonnello strabico
Gianni Solaro
On. Cicero
Pietro Tordi
Generale Bassi-Lega
Max Turilli
Colonnello Turzilli
Salvatore Biliardo
Colonnello Automatikos
Bruno Boschetti
Pietro Biondi
Professor Pube
Giuseppe Castellano
Franz Cavicchia
Luciano Catenacci
benzinaio
Mico Cundari
On. Ferlingeri
Vittorio De Bisogno
figlio di DI Cori
Belisario De Matteis
Generale Pariglia
Nino Formicola
Ulisse
Mario Frera
ufficiale di polizia
Rosanna Gherardi
Cristiana Tallone
Enzo Guarini
Enzo La Torre
Carla Mancini
Mauro Misul
Urbini
Franco Moraldi
Alfonsone
Lino Murolo
Loris Zanchi
On. Bertoni
Luigi Lenner
Ing. Stainer
Francesco Anniballi
cameriere
Angelo Boscariol
Gianni Baghino
Ugo Ballester
New President of Italy (uncredited)

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A review by Guillermo

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Written by Guillermo on Tue Dec 31 2013

The director of this movie Mario Monicelli, who made movies and wrote scripts for more than 65 years, gives us an insight into Italian politics by presenting this satire of an attempt of a coup d'état by some fascist officers. This script was written by Agenore Incrocci who wrote more than 100 scripts and who worked practically as long as Monicelli. The state pensioners of the glorious war sing their old songs as if Mussolini was still alive. They do not understand that their actions will be considered as pranks. However Italian politicians can turn the events into their favour and at least dem...