Comedy

We Want the Colonels

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!

Release Date : 1973-03-02

Language :FrenchItalian

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Dean Film

Production Country : Italy

Alternative Titles : We Want the Colonels

Cast

Character Name : On. Giuseppe Tritoni

Original Name : Ugo Tognazzi

Gender : Male

Character Name : Il Presidente della Repubblica

Original Name : Claude Dauphin

Gender : Male

Character Name : Monsignor Sartorello

Original Name : Duilio Del Prete

Gender : Male

Character Name : Colonnello Barbacane

Original Name : Giuseppe Maffioli

Gender : Male

Character Name : Marcella Bassi-Lega

Original Name : Carla Tatò

Gender : Female

Character Name : On. Gigino Di Cori

Original Name : François Périer

Gender : Male

Character Name : On. Li Masi

Original Name : Lino Puglisi

Gender : Male

Character Name : Armando Caffè

Original Name : Pino Zac

Gender : Male

Character Name : On. Mazzante

Original Name : Tino Bianchi

Gender : Male

Character Name : Colonnello Ribaud

Original Name : Antonino Faà di Bruno

Gender : Male

Character Name : Tarcisio "Ciccio" Introna

Original Name : Vincenzo Falanga

Gender : Male

Character Name : Colonnello Furas

Original Name : Giancarlo Fusco

Gender : Male

Character Name : Contessa Amelia Di Amatrice

Original Name : Barbara Herrera

Gender : Male

Character Name : Tenente Branzino

Original Name : Renzo Marignano

Gender : Male

Character Name : Colonnello Aguzzo

Original Name : Camillo Milli

Gender : Male

Character Name : il colonnello strabico

Original Name : Alberto Postorino

Gender : Male

Character Name : On. Cicero

Original Name : Gianni Solaro

Gender : Male

Character Name : Generale Bassi-Lega

Original Name : Pietro Tordi

Gender : Male

Character Name : Colonnello Turzilli

Original Name : Max Turilli

Gender : Male

Character Name : Colonnello Automatikos

Original Name : Salvatore Biliardo

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Bruno Boschetti

Gender : Male

Character Name : Professor Pube

Original Name : Pietro Biondi

Gender : Male

Character Name : Franz Cavicchia

Original Name : Giuseppe Castellano

Gender : Male

Character Name : benzinaio

Original Name : Luciano Catenacci

Gender : Male

Character Name : On. Ferlingeri

Original Name : Mico Cundari

Gender : Male

Character Name : figlio di DI Cori

Original Name : Vittorio De Bisogno

Gender : Male

Character Name : Generale Pariglia

Original Name : Belisario De Matteis

Gender : Male

Character Name : Ulisse

Original Name : Nino Formicola

Gender : Male

Character Name : ufficiale di polizia

Original Name : Mario Frera

Gender : Male

Character Name : Cristiana Tallone

Original Name : Rosanna Gherardi

Gender : Female

Character Name :

Original Name : Enzo Guarini

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Enzo La Torre

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Carla Mancini

Gender : Female

Character Name : Urbini

Original Name : Mauro Misul

Gender : Male

Character Name : Alfonsone

Original Name : Franco Moraldi

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Lino Murolo

Gender : Male

Character Name : On. Bertoni

Original Name : Loris Zanchi

Gender : Male

Character Name : Ing. Stainer

Original Name : Luigi Lenner

Gender : Male

Character Name : cameriere

Original Name : Francesco Anniballi

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Angelo Boscariol

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Gianni Baghino

Gender : Male

Character Name : New President of Italy (uncredited)

Original Name : Ugo Ballester

Gender : Male

Reviews

Guillermo

@masterchipo

2021-06-23

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 democracy will be saved in a rather crumbly way. The Italian officers act like in an Italian opera without singers. They have their gatherings as in good old times and they think they should reverse the fragile Italian democracy. At the end they will succeed but things do not happen as they had foreseen... This movie is a brilliant comedy about the way of life of the Italians and their politics seen through the eye-glass of a director who lived through it in experiences from his youth. By user IMDB