The General of the Dead Army (1983)
Il generale dell'armata morta
In the early 1960s, nearly 20 years since the Second World War ended, an Italian general, accompanied by a priest who is also an Italian army colonel, is sent to Albania to locate and collect the bones of his countrymen who had died during the war and return them for burial in Italy. As they go deeper into the Albanian countryside they find they are being followed by another general who is looking for the bodies of German soldiers killed in World War II.
- Date of release
- 1983-10-19
- TMDB
- 6.2 / 10 (6)
- Runtime
- 1h 45m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Luciano Tovoli
Casting
- Marcello Mastroianni — General Ariosto
- Anouk Aimée — Countess Betsy Mirafiore
- Michel Piccoli — Benetandi
- Gérard Klein — General Krotz
- Sergio Castellitto — The Expert
Interesting facts
The General of the Dead Army is a 1983 Italian drama film directed by Luciano Tovoli and based on the 1963 novel by Albanian author Ismail Kadare.
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