The General of the Dead Army
1983, Italian. Directed by Luciano Tovoli.
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.
- Runtime
- 1h 45m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Italian
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- Released
- 19 October 1983
- Original title
- Il generale dell'armata morta
- Country
- France, Italy
- Written by
- Jean-Claude Carrière
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Who directed The General of the Dead Army?
The General of the Dead Army (1983) was directed by Luciano Tovoli and stars Marcello Mastroianni, Anouk Aimée, Michel Piccoli.