We Want the Colonels

We Want the Colonels

1973 · 102 min · IT · 6.6 (30 votes)
Dir. Mario Monicelli · Starring Ugo Tognazzi, Claude Dauphin, Duilio Del Prete, Giuseppe Maffioli, Carla Tatò, François Périer · Music Carlo Rustichelli
Comedy

Italy 1973. Giuseppe Tritoni (Ugo Tognazzi) is an ultra-right-wing congressman that doesn't agree anymore with his fascist party policy. He contacts many Italian Army officers and built a net of relationship in order to organize a Coup d'Etat (Golpe). Something goes wrong and the Interior Minister (Home Secretary) Mr. Li Masi (Lino Pugliesi) got the all information about the attempted Golpe. So the Minister organizes a counter-Golpe. Tritoni desperately, to save his project, kidnaps the Italian Republic President (Claude Dauphin) that immediately dies for heartache. Now Minister Mr. Li Masi is free to lay down the law to the rest of the country, realizing basically the actual Golpe! Tritoni surrenders and will spend rest of his time trying to sell his ideas about managing Golpe in Africa!

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A darkly funny, cynical look at political maneuvering and the absurdity of power. It feels like watching a chaotic, yet strangely logical, unraveling of authority, all wrapped in a distinctly European comedic style.

cynicalabsurdistdarkly comedicsatiricalsteadypolitical farceEuropean arthouseperiod piecepolitical satirefascismpowercorruption
politicsfascismcoup d'etatsatiremilitary coup
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