Overview
World War I, Italian north-eastern front after the 1917 bloody battles on the Altipiano. A group of soldiers face the difficulty of war in a story that unfolds in the space of one night. Events follow one after the other without any kind of pattern: the peaceful mountains suddenly become a place where men die. But every story told in this film is a true story.
Director: Ermanno Olmi
Cast
Claudio Santamaria
Major
Alessandro Sperduti
Young Lieutenant
Francesco Formichetti
Captain
Andrea Di Maria
Mule's Driver
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Camillo Grassi
Orderly
Niccolò Senni
Forgotten
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Domenico Benetti
Sergeant
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Andrea Benetti
Corporal
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Andrea Frigo
Commanded Soldier
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Franz Stefani
Saved Soldier
