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On the Italian-Austrian front in 1916, Italian General Leone wants his men to storm the heights of Asiago at all costs, although Austrian machine guns massacre one wave after the other. When Leone doesn’t get the cooperation he wants, he turns machine guns on his own men, leading to a bloody and futile mutiny. Never officially released in America, director Francesco Rosi’s anti-war film covers themes similar to Kubrick’s Paths of Glory, but focuses more on the carnage experienced by ordinary foot soldiers.
35mm, color, in Italian with English subtitles, 100 min. DIR: Francesco Rosi. SCR: Tonino Guerra, Raffaele La Capria, Francesco Rosi. CAST: Mark Frechette, Alain Cuny, Gian-Marie Volenté.
Print courtesy of Museo Nazionale del Cinema.
