We Want the Colonels (1973)

66% User Rating

1h 42min

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!

Mario MonicelliDirector

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Ugo Tognazzi

On. Giuseppe Tritoni

Claude Dauphin

Il Presidente della Repubblica

Duilio Del Prete

Monsignor Sartorello

Giuseppe Maffioli

Colonnello Barbacane

Carla Tatò

Marcella Bassi-Lega

François Périer

On. Gigino Di Cori

Lino Puglisi

On. Li Masi

Pino Zac

Armando Caffè

Tino Bianchi

On. Mazzante

Antonino Faà di Bruno

Colonnello Ribaud

Vincenzo Falanga

Tarcisio "Ciccio" Introna

Giancarlo Fusco

Colonnello Furas

Barbara Herrera

Contessa Amelia Di Amatrice

Renzo Marignano

Tenente Branzino

Camillo Milli

Colonnello Aguzzo

Alberto Postorino

il colonnello strabico

Gianni Solaro

On. Cicero

Pietro Tordi

Generale Bassi-Lega

Max Turilli

Colonnello Turzilli

Salvatore Biliardo

Colonnello Automatikos

Bruno Boschetti

Pietro Biondi

Professor Pube

Giuseppe Castellano

Franz Cavicchia

Luciano Catenacci

benzinaio

Mico Cundari

On. Ferlingeri

Vittorio De Bisogno

figlio di DI Cori

Belisario De Matteis

Generale Pariglia

Nino Formicola

Ulisse

Mario Frera

ufficiale di polizia

Rosanna Gherardi

Cristiana Tallone

Enzo Guarini

Enzo La Torre

Carla Mancini

Mauro Misul

Urbini

Franco Moraldi

Alfonsone

Lino Murolo

Loris Zanchi

On. Bertoni

Luigi Lenner

Ing. Stainer

Francesco Anniballi

cameriere

Angelo Boscariol

Gianni Baghino

Ugo Ballester

New President of Italy (uncredited)

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Guillermo

December 31, 2013

The director of this movie Mario Monicelli, who made movies and wrote scripts for more than 65 years, gives us an insight into Italian politics by presenting this satire of an attempt of a coup d'état by some fascist officers. This script was written by Agenore Incrocci who wrote more than 100 scripts and who worked practically as long as Monicelli. The state pensioners of the glorious war sing their old songs as if Mussolini was still alive. They do not understand that their actions will be considered as pranks. However Italian politicians can turn the events into their favour and at least democracy will be saved in a rather crumbly way. The Italian officers act like in an Italian opera without singers. They have their gatherings as in good old times and they think they should reverse the fragile Italian democracy. At the end they will succeed but things do not happen as they had foreseen... This movie is a brilliant comedy about the way of life of the Italians and their politics seen through the eye-glass of a director who lived through it in experiences from his youth. By user IMDB