We Want the Colonels

We Want the Colonels

6.7IMDb Score
Released:1973-03-02
Genre:Comedy
Duration:102 min
Country:Italy
Director:Mario Monicelli
Actors:Ugo Tognazzi, Claude Dauphin, Duilio Del Prete, Giuseppe Maffioli, Carla Tatò
Production:Dean Film

Overview:

Italy 1973. Giuseppe Tritoni (Ugo Tognazzi) is an ultra-right-wing congressman that doesn't agree anymore with his fascist party policy. He contacts many Italian Army officers and built a net of relationship in order to organize a Coup d'Etat (Golpe). Something goes wrong and the Interior Minister (Home Secretary) Mr. Li Masi (Lino Pugliesi) got the all information about the attempted Golpe. So the Minister organizes a counter-Golpe. Tritoni desperately, to save his project, kidnaps the Italian Republic President (Claude Dauphin) that immediately dies for heartache. Now Minister Mr. Li Masi is free to lay down the law to the rest of the country, realizing basically the actual Golpe! Tritoni surrenders and will spend rest of his time trying to sell his ideas about managing Golpe in Africa!

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