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| Directed by | Salvatore Samperi |
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| Based on | Sturmtruppen by Bonvi |
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| Cinematography | Giuseppe Rotunno [1] |
| Edited by | Sergio Montanari [1] |
| Music by | Enzo Jannacci [1] |
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Running time | 100 minutes [1] |
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Sturmtruppen is a 1976 comedy film directed by Salvatore Samperi. It is based on the homonymous Sturmtruppen comic books created by Bonvi. [2] [3]
Strumtruppen is a film based on a comic book series written by Bonvi about the conflict in the trenches of World War II from the point of view of the German army. [1] [4] The comic series originally appeared in 1968. [4] The idea to adapt Bonvi's scripts to a film came from producers Ermanno Donati and Luigi Carpentieri who had recently produced another popular Italian production set in World War II, Salon Kitty . [4] The two got in touch with Bonvi through screenwriter Vittorio Vighi. [4]
Filming was initially set to start in June 1976. [4] The project eventually went through several different stages as Donati and Carpentieri were not convinced by the original director Ennio De Concini's vision of the film. [4] The script was originally written by Vittorio Vighi and Maria Pia Fusco but these parts were dropped and director Salvatore Samperi signed as the director. [4] De Concini later spoke about his involvement in Strumtruppen, stating that he "felt that my relationship with cinema was running out. [...] I did not feeling like doing [Strumptruppen]. I would have made a bad job and a bad movie." [4]
Sturmtruppen was released in Italy in 1976. [1] The film was a big box office hit in Italy, grossing over a one billion lire at the box office. [5] The film's success led to a sequel, Sturmtruppen 2 - Tutti al fronte , which was written by Bonvi and again directed by Samperi. [5]
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