''Madman at War'' ( it, Scemo di guerra, french: Le fou de guerre) is a 1985 Italian-French comedy film directed by Dino Risi. It was entered into the

1985 Cannes Film Festival The 38th Cannes Film Festival was held from 8 to 20 May 1985. The Palme d'Or went to the ''When Father Was Away on Business'' by Emir Kusturica. The festival opened with ''Witness'', directed by Peter Weir and closed with ''The Emerald Forest'', ...

Plot

At the beginning of World War II a young Italian

psychiatrist A psychiatrist is a physician who specializes in psychiatry, the branch of medicine devoted to the diagnosis, prevention, study, and treatment of mental disorders. Psychiatrists are physicians and evaluate patients to determine whether their sy ...

is sent to troops in Libya. When he learns that his commander is a madman he tries to protect the subordinates from harm.

Cast

* Coluche as Oscar Pilli *

Beppe Grillo Giuseppe Piero "Beppe" Grillo (; born 21 July 1948) is an Italian comedian, actor, blogger, and politician. He has been involved in politics since 2009 as the co-founder (together with Gianroberto Casaleggio) of the Italian Five Star Movement ...

as Marcello Lupi * Bernard Blier as Belucci * Fabio Testi as Boda * Claudio Bisio as Pintus *

Gianni Franco Gianni is an Italian name (occasionally a surname), a short form of the Italian Giovanni and a cognate of John meaning God is gracious. Gianni is the most common diminutive of Giovanni in Italian. People with this given name * Gianni Agnelli (i ...

as Cerioni * Franco Diogene (credited as Francesco Diogene) as Nitti *

Sandro Ghiani Sandro Ghiani (born 12 August 1952) is an Italian film, stage and television actor. Life and career Born in Carbonia, Sardinia, the son of a postal clerk, Ghiani studied in a seminary, the Institute of Don Orione in Tortona in Piedmont, where, ...

as Puddu *

Guido Nicheli Guido Nicheli (24 July 1934 – 28 October 2007) was an Italian actor. Selected filmography * '' Cattivi pensieri'' (1976) * '' Il padrone e l'operaio'' (1976) - Guido * '' Saxofone'' (1979) - Guido - friend of Fiorenza * '' Una vacanza best ...

as Rossi *

Tiziana Altieri Tiziana is an Italian feminine given name. The masculine form is Tiziano. Notable people with the name include: *Flavia Titiana, Roman empress who ruled in 193 AD *Tiziana Alagia (born 1973), Italian long-distance runner *Tiziana Cantone, an Italia ...

as Fatma *

Geoffrey Copleston Gerald Geoffrey Copleston (18 March 1921 – 1999) was an English actor, voice actor, and translator Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text. The Englis ...

as the German commander

References

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* 1985 films 1985 comedy films French comedy films Italian comedy films 1980s French-language films 1980s Italian-language films Films directed by Dino Risi Commedia all'italiana North African campaign films Films scored by Guido & Maurizio De Angelis Films with screenplays by Age & Scarpelli Films produced by Claude Berri Films with screenplays by Claude Berri 1985 multilingual films French multilingual films Italian multilingual films 1980s French films 1980s Italian films {{1980s-France-film-stub