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We Want the Colonels

(1973)

March 2, 1973 1h 42m
67%
TMDB Score

Overview

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 Monicelli

Director

Top Billed Cast

UT

Ugo Tognazzi

On. Giuseppe Tritoni

CD

Claude Dauphin

Il Presidente della Repubblica

DDP

Duilio Del Prete

Monsignor Sartorello

GM

Giuseppe Maffioli

Colonnello Barbacane

CT

Carla Tatò

Marcella Bassi-Lega

FP

François Périer

On. Gigino Di Cori

LP

Lino Puglisi

On. Li Masi

PZ

Pino Zac

Armando Caffè

TB

Tino Bianchi

On. Mazzante

AFdB

Antonino Faà di Bruno

Colonnello Ribaud