Soldati - 365 all'alba

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Soldati - 365 all'alba
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Directed by Marco Risi
Written byStefano Sudriè
Marco Risi
Marco Modugno
Furio Scarpelli
CinematographyGiuseppe Berardini
Music by Manuel De Sica
Release date
  • 1987 (1987)
Language Italian

Soldati - 365 all'alba (i.e. "Soldiers 365 Days Before Discharge") is a 1987 Italian drama film directed by Marco Risi. The film, which deals with the military service seen as a traumatic experience, marked the switch of Risi from low-wattage comedies to more complex themes. [1]

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Before coming into production, the screenplay was submitted to the Ministry of Defence to obtain the necessary permits to shoot in real barracks, but it received an outright refusal, as the Ministry feared to exacerbate the already harsh controversy that at the time had invested the Army because of a chain of suicides in the barracks as a result of hazing. The film, therefore, was filmed partly in Rome between the Empire Studios, the private school Nazarene College and the psychiatric hospital Santa Maria della Pietà, and Trieste, in the museum of national history. [2]

Plot

The year is 1987. In a barracks in Pontebba, various young people who differ from each other in character, ways of life and social background are gathered for military service. To target the recruits are first the older soldiers (the nonni), then lieutenant Fili, who shows particular dislike for private Scanna. The officer vents on the soldier his existential dissatisfaction, the disappointment for a lack of promotion, the morbid jealousy for his wife Anna. But despite the harassment, the dismissal is approaching. On the very last night, the young soldiers, fully armed, are called for a strange exercise and leave by plane to an unknown destination.

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References

  1. ↑ Roberto Poppi (2002). Dizionario del cinema italiano: I Registi. Gremese Editore, 2002. ISBN   8884401712.
  2. ↑ Fabrizio Corallo, «Ragazzi di naja», Panorama, 31 May 1987, p. 15.


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