Review by searchanddestroy-1

The Italian point of view is sufficiently rare about WW2 to be noticed. You had to come back to the late sixties and early seventies, in the italian film industry of course - not French nor German - to find such a scheme. EL ALAMEIN directed by Gioirgio Ferroni, starring Frederick Stafford was the best example. But more recently, I don't remember any other film. Maybe there were Italian films in the fifties and sixties, in black and white, directed by the likes of Dino Risi or any other great director, in a comic and tragic way, thru absurd situations, to describe the poverty row of the Italian Army during WW2. I am sure there were movies like this one, but treated differently. I am not a specialist of this kind of Italian films from the sixties, sorry folks. To summarize, this feature from 2002 is definitely worth watching for whom wishes to know how war was for the poor Italian army. An underrated army where lack of courage from the simple soldiers was certainly not the main cause. But instead of those who commanded them. Good acting and waesome directing, so accurate and didactic too. I think that was the purpose.