''The Two Marshals'' ( it, I due marescialli) is a

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written and directed by

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. The film was a hit at the Italian box office, with 2.765.531 spectators and a total gross of 536.513.000 lire.Matilde Amorosi, Alessandro Ferraù. ''Totò. Siamo uomini o caporali? Diario semiserio di Antonio de Curtis''. Newton & Compton, 1996. .

Plot

In Italy, during 1943, two men collide during the bombing of the

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and American allies. Antonio Capurro is a thief who disguises himself as a priest for the robberies at the train stations; Vittorio Cotone is a

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marshal upright who's chasing Antonio, and that in the end, to a misunderstanding, he is forced to do so by Marshal dress. Antonio is excited about the new appointment, and Vittorio meanwhile disguises himself as a priest. In fact the two, in the days of the

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, are persecuted by the Nazis and fascists because they're hiding a

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, a Jewish girl and an American soldier who is planning the Allied landing.

Cast

Totò Antonio Griffo Focas Flavio Angelo Ducas Comneno Porfirogenito Gagliardi de Curtis di Bisanzio (15 February 1898 – 15 April 1967), best known by his stage name Totò (), or simply as Antonio de Curtis, and nicknamed ''il Principe della risata ...

as Antonio Capurro *

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as Marshal Vittorio Cotone *

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as Achille Pennica, the

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as Don Nicola *

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as Basilio Meneghetti *

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as Vanda *Roland Bartrop (billed as Roland von Bartrop) as Lieutenant Kessler *

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as Immacolata Di Rosa *

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as the Thief *

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as the Postman *

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as Benegatti, the Lawyer I_due_marescialli

References

External links

* Italian comedy films Films directed by Sergio Corbucci 1961 comedy films 1961 films Films set in 1943 Films about Italian resistance movement Italian Campaign of World War II films Films with screenplays by Giovanni Grimaldi Films scored by Piero Piccioni 1960s Italian-language films 1960s Italian films {{1960s-Italy-comedy-film-stub