Mario Monicelli – Vogliamo i colonnelli AKA We Want the Colonels! (1973)
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.
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This is a very sharp political satire about mid-1970s Italy. It’s from that period of Italian film in which, alongside the overtly political filmmaking (mostly made famous by committed auteurs such as Petri, Rosi, Bellocchio, etc.), films belonging to old and new genres (commedia all’italiana, spaghetti western, poliziottesco) start being affected by the tragic and unique socio-political situation the country is in, and acquire a political dimension. Traditionally escapist cinema increasingly starts including overtones of a political nature, with open or hidden references to actual events. This is the case with “Vogliamo I Colonnelli”, which deals with not one but two attempted coups d’etat that were actually planned in Italy between 1964 and 1970 and almost put into being, but failed for reasons that are still not entirely clear. Monicelli of course interprets the events in pure “commedia all’italiana” style, mocking the entire Italian army and its senile top echelons, and once again exposing the opportunism and amateurishness of the Italian character. A spaghetti-golpe, in which the unprofessionalism of the conjurers is the main object of derision and contempt. Tognazzi is having a ball, and as usual steals the show… The title is an obvious reference to the military coup that took place in Greece in 1967, after which the country was ruled by the so-called “Colonels Junta” for a total of 7 years.
We.Want.the.Colonels.1973.DVDRIP.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv
General
Container: Matroska
Runtime: 1 h 38 min
Size: 1.51 GiB
Video
Codec: x264
Resolution: 712x548 ~> 1013x548
Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
Frame rate: 24.000 fps
Bit rate: 2 000 kb/s
BPP: 0.214
Audio
#1: Italian 1.0ch AC-3 @ 192 kb/s
https://nitro.download/view/137910C10F3864C/We.Want.the.Colonels.1973.DVDRIP.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv
Language(s):Italian
Subtitles:English
