Stormtroopers

Stormtroopers

1976 · 110 min · IT · 4.5 (23 votes)
Dir. Salvatore Samperi · Starring Renato Pozzetto, Lino Toffolo, Cochi Ponzoni, Teo Teocoli, Felice Andreasi, Massimo Boldi · Sturmtruppen - Collezione
ComedyWar

A handful of recruits prepares for a war that nobody knows about the purpose or the motive. The field commander is a general who plays with a Marx puppet and lives in a luxurious palace that looks like a cabin from the outside. His orderlies are a captain who lives in Arabic dress in a curtain and a sergeant in training who does not shine for intelligence. Continuing training between various and grotesque accidents until the order arrives for the front. And then?

VIBE

This film feels like a bleak, absurdist fever dream. It's a darkly comedic, satirical look at the futility of war and the ridiculousness of military bureaucracy. Expect a slow, steady burn that builds to a profoundly unsettling, yet darkly funny, conclusion.

absurdistdarkly comedicsatiricalbleaksteadyanti-war satiredark comedycharacter-drivenwarbureaucracyabsurdityconformity
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