The General of the Dead Army

Overview

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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

October 19, 1983

Original language

Italian

Spoken languages

Italian

Countries

France, Italy

Cast

Marcello Mastroianni,Sergio Castellitto,Anouk Aimée,Michel Piccoli,Gérard Klein

Director

Luciano Tovoli

Writer

Ismail Kadare,Jean-Claude Carrière

Producer

Michel Piccoli

Cinematography

Giuseppe Tinelli,Luciano Tovoli

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0084040