The General of the Dead Army

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Marcello Mastroianni

General Ariosto

Age : 72 | Popularity : 51%

Anouk Aimée

Countess Betsy Mirafiore

Age : 91 | Popularity : 17%

Michel Piccoli

Benetandi

Age : 94 | Popularity : 13%

Gérard Klein

General Krotz

Age : 81 | Popularity : 7%

Sergio Castellitto

The Expert

Age : 70 | Popularity : 7%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Production	Producer	Michel Piccoli
	Production Designer	Davide Bassan
Editing	Editor	Jennifer Augé Noëlle Boisson Mirco Garrone Marie Robert
Writing	Writer	Jean-Claude Carrière
	Novel	Ismail Kadare
Directing	Director	Luciano Tovoli
Camera	Director of Photography	Luciano Tovoli Giuseppe Tinelli
Department	Role	Name

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