Donne e soldati was an example of a ‘decentralised’ production, far from Rome, something that for the most part Italian cinema didn’t fully succeed in achieving until the 1990s. . In many ways the film, which is both Picaresque and anti-heroic, was too far ahead of its time, and it is often considered the precursor to Monicelli’s L’armata brancaleone. This time out, Ferreri takes the reins as producer of the ill-fated undertaking (the two directors will never make another film); however, Donne e soldati, apart from marking Ferreri’s estrangement from Italian cinema for a number of years, today appears to display earthy and carnivalesque elements that will subsequently influence certain aspects of the Milanese director’s vision.
Marcella Mariani
Margherita
Sandro Somarè
Storyteller
Marco Ferreri
Landlord
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Donne e soldati
November 25, 1955
1h 25m
7.0
Antonio Marchi
Marco Ferreri, Attilio Bertolucci, Antonio Marchi
1
Gaia Servadio
Violetta
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