''We Want the Colonels'' ( it, Vogliamo i colonnelli) is a 1973 Italian
comedy film
A comedy film is a category of film which emphasizes humor. These films are designed to make the audience laugh through amusement. Films in this style traditionally have a happy ending (black comedy being an exception). Comedy is one of the ol ...
directed by
Mario Monicelli
Mario Alberto Ettore Monicelli (; 16 May 1915 – 29 November 2010) was an Italian film director and screenwriter and one of the masters of the ''Commedia all'Italiana'' (Comedy Italian style). He was nominated six times for an Oscar, and was awa ...
. It was entered in the
1973 Cannes Film Festival.
It is a satire of the attempted far-right
Borghese Coup.
Cast
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Ugo Tognazzi
Ugo Tognazzi (23 March 1922 – 27 October 1990) was an Italian actor, director, and screenwriter.
Early life
Tognazzi was born in Cremona, in northern Italy but spent his youth in various localities as his father was a travelling clerk fo ...
as Giuseppe Tritoni
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Tino Bianchi
Tino Bianchi (21 June 1905 – 4 January 1996) was an Italian actor. He performed in more than fifty films between 1933 and 1995.
Filmography
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1905 births
1996 deaths
Italian male film actors
People from São Paulo
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as On. Mazzante
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Claude Dauphin as President of Italy
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Duilio Del Prete
Duilio Del Prete (25 June 1938 – 2 February 1998) was an Italian actor, dubber and singer-songwriter.
Del Prete was born at Cuneo, Piedmont. As a singer-songwriter, he wrote political songs and recorded an album of Jacques Brel's covers; he a ...
as Mons. Giampaolino Sartorello
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Antonino Faà di Bruno
Antonino Faà di Bruno (15 December 1910 – 2 May 1981) was an Italian actor and former military officer.
Biography
A member of the aristocratic Faà di Bruno family, Antonino Faà di Bruno was born in London, the son of Marchese Alessand ...
as Col. Vittorio Emanuele Ribaud
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Vincenzo Falanga as Ciccio Introna
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Gian Carlo Fusco
Gian Carlo Fusco (1 July 1915 – 17 September 1984), sometimes spelled Giancarlo Fusco, was an Italian writer, journalist, screenwriter and occasional actor.
Biography
Born in La Spezia, Fusco spent his childhood in a college in Lucca, and in ...
as Col. Gavino Furas
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Barbara Herrera as Amelia D'Amatrice
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Giuseppe Maffioli as Col. Pino Barbacane
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Renzo Marignano
Renzo Marignano (26 March 1923 - 25 November 1987), sometimes credited as Renzo Marignani, was an Italian actor and film director.
Born in Genoa, after World War II Marignano was one of the founders of ''Cimofilm'', a production company speciali ...
as Ten. Branzino
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Camillo Milli
Camillo Migliori, best known as Camillo Milli (1 August 1929 – 20 January 2022) was an Italian stage, film and television actor.
Life and career
Born in Milan, Milli formed under Giorgio Strehler at the Piccolo Teatro di Milano, where he deb ...
as Col. Elpidio Aguzzo
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François Périer
François Périer (born François Pillu; 10 November 1919 – 29 June 2002), was a French actor renowned for his expressiveness and diversity of roles.
He made over 110 film and TV appearances between 1938 and 1996, with notable excursion into ...
as On. Di Cori
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Lino Puglisi as On. Salvato Li Masi
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Gianni Solaro
Gianni Solaro (born Gianni Lorenzon, 11 August 1926 – 12 August 2006) was an Italian film and television actor.
Life and career
Born in Rome, Solaro was a character actor in the Italian film industry for about twenty years, between the late 19 ...
as On. Cicero
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Carla Tatò as Marcella Bassi Lega
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Pietro Tordi
Pietro Tordi (12 July 1906 – 14 December 1990) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 100 films between 1942 and 1988. He was born in Florence, Italy.
Selected filmography
* '' Doctor Antonio'' (1937) - L'altro conspiratore
* '' Don C ...
as Gen. Bassi Lega
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Stavros Tornes
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Max Turilli as Col. Quintiliano Turzilli
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Pino Zac
Giuseppe Zaccaria (23 April 1930 – 25 August 1985), best known as Pino Zac, was an Italian illustrator, cartoonist and animator.
Biography
Born in Trapani, Sicily, Zac spent his childhood in Pratola Peligna, Abruzzo and eventually moved to R ...
as Armando Caffè
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1973 films
1973 comedy films
1970s Italian-language films
Italian satirical films
Commedia all'italiana
Films set in Rome
Films directed by Mario Monicelli
Films scored by Carlo Rustichelli
Political fiction
Films about terrorism
Films with screenplays by Age & Scarpelli
1970s political comedy films
Films about coups d'état
1970s Italian films
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