We Want the Colonels

We Want the Colonels

102 mins | Comedy | March 2, 1973

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!

We Want the Colonels

102 mins | Comedy | March 2, 1973

We Want the Colonels
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!
IMDb rating 6.8
Producers Dean Film
Original title Vogliamo i colonnelli
Directors Claudio Risi, Carlo Vanzina, Mario Monicelli
Writers Mario Monicelli, Furio Scarpelli, Agenore Incrocci

Cast

Ugo Tognazzi

as On. Giuseppe Tritoni

Claude Dauphin

as Il Presidente della Repubblica

Duilio Del Prete

as Monsignor Sartorello

Giuseppe Maffioli

as Colonnello Barbacane

Carla Tatò

as Marcella Bassi-Lega

François Périer

as On. Gigino Di Cori

Lino Puglisi

as On. Li Masi

Pino Zac

as Armando Caffè

Tino Bianchi

as On. Mazzante

Antonino Faà di Bruno

as Colonnello Ribaud

Vincenzo Falanga

as Tarcisio "Ciccio" Introna

Giancarlo Fusco

as Colonnello Furas

Barbara Herrera

as Contessa Amelia Di Amatrice

Renzo Marignano

as Tenente Branzino

Camillo Milli

as Colonnello Aguzzo

Alberto Postorino

as il colonnello strabico

Gianni Solaro

as On. Cicero

Pietro Tordi

as Generale Bassi-Lega

Max Turilli

as Colonnello Turzilli

Salvatore Biliardo

as Colonnello Automatikos

Pietro Biondi

as Professor Pube

Giuseppe Castellano

as Franz Cavicchia

Luciano Catenacci

as benzinaio

Mico Cundari

as On. Ferlingeri

Vittorio De Bisogno

as figlio di DI Cori

Belisario De Matteis

as Generale Pariglia

Nino Formicola

as Ulisse

Mario Frera

as ufficiale di polizia

Rosanna Gherardi

as Cristiana Tallone

Mauro Misul

as Urbini

Franco Moraldi

as Alfonsone

Loris Zanchi

as On. Bertoni

Luigi Lenner

as Ing. Stainer

Francesco Anniballi

as cameriere

Lella Cattaneo

as Party guest (uncredited)