We Want the Colonels
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We Want the Colonels is a 1973 Italian comedy film
directed by Mario Monicelli
. It was entered into the 1973 Cannes Film Festival
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Comedy film
Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. They are designed to elicit laughter from the audience. Comedies are mostly light-hearted dramas and are made to amuse and entertain the audiences...
directed by Mario Monicelli
Mario Monicelli
Mario Monicelli was an Italian director and screenwriter and one of the masters of the Commedia all'Italiana , three times nominated for Oscar.-Biography:...
. It was entered into the 1973 Cannes Film Festival
1973 Cannes Film Festival
The 26th Cannes Film Festival was held on May 10–25, 1973. At this festival two new non-competitive sections were added: 'Étude et documents' and 'Perspectives du Cinéma Français' ....
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Cast
- Ugo TognazziUgo TognazziUgo Tognazzi was an Italian film, TV, and theatre actor, director, and screenwriter.-Early life:Tognazzi was born in Cremona, in northern Italy but spent his youth in various localities as his father was a traveller clerk for an insurance company.After his return in the native city in 1936, he...
- Giuseppe Tritoni - Tino Bianchi - On. Mazzante
- Claude DauphinClaude Dauphin (actor)Claude Dauphin was a French actor. He appeared in over 130 films between 1930 and 1978.He was born in Corbeil-Essonnes, Essonne. His father was Maurice Étienne Legrand, a poet who wrote as Franc-Nohain, and who was the librettist for Maurice Ravel's opera L'heure espagnole.Dauphin married...
- President of Italy - Duilio Del PreteDuilio Del PreteDulio Del Prete was an Italian actor, dubber and singer-songwriter.Del Prete was born at Cuneo, Piedmont. As a singer-songwriter, he wrote political songs and recorded an album of Jacques Brel's covers; he also wrote songs for several artists.As an actor, he participated to several films of the...
- Mons. Giampaolino Sartorello - Antonino Faa Di Bruno - Col. Ribaud
- Vincenzo Falanga - Ciccio Introna
- Gian Carlo Fusco - Col. Gavino Furas
- Barbara Herrera - Amelia D'Amatrice
- Giuseppe Maffioli - Col. Barbacane
- Renzo Marignano - Ten. Branzino
- Camillo Milli - Colonello Elpidio Aguzzo
- François PérierFrançois PérierFrançois Périer, , born François Pillu in Paris, was one of France's most distinguished actors.He made over 110 film and TV appearances between 1938 and 1996. He was also prominent in the theatre. Among his most notable parts was that of Hugo in the first production of Jean-Paul Sartre's Les Mains...
- On. Di Cori - Lino Puglisi - On. Salvato Li Masi
- Gianni Solaro
- Carla Tatò - Marcella Bassi - Lega
- Stavros Tornes
- Max Turilli - Col. Quintiliano Turzilli
- Pino Zac - Armando Caffè
- Franco Magno - On. Simonacchio (uncredited)