Everybody Go Home (Italian: Tutti a casa) is a 1960 Italian film directed by Luigi Comencini. It features an international cast including the u.s. actors Martin Balsam, Alex Nicol and the Franco-Italian Serge Reggiani. Nino Manfredi was rejected for the starring role because Alberto Sordi wanted it.
Along the venetian seaside, on the morn of September the eight in 1943, Alberto Innocenzi (Alberto Sordi), junior NCO of the Royal Italian Army is sh...
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Everybody Go Home (Italian: Tutti a casa) is a 1960 Italian film directed by Luigi Comencini. It features an international cast including the u.s. actors Martin Balsam, Alex Nicol and the Franco-Italian Serge Reggiani. Nino Manfredi was rejected for the starring role because Alberto Sordi wanted it.
Along the venetian seaside, on the morn of September the eight in 1943, Alberto Innocenzi (Alberto Sordi), junior NCO of the Royal Italian Army is shocked when (in response to the separate surrender signed by the Badoglio government in Cassibile) the former allies of the Wehrmacht surround and take by storm the base where he's stationed.
After a comical exchange with a superior command he gets in touch with by telephone ("The incredible has happened, the Germans have joined the Allies and are attacking us!") he, along with some disbanded soldiers, manages to distance the German troops and is thoroughly shocked when, contrary to his plan of finding a higher echelon to which to report, most...
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