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'Soldati - 365 all'alba' (i.e. "Soldiers 365 Days Before Discharge") is a 1987 Italian drama film directed by Marco Risi. The film, which deals with the military service seen as a traumatic experience, marked the switch of Risi from low-wattage comedies to more complex themes.

Before coming into production, the screenplay was submitted to the Ministry of Defence to obtain the necessary permits to shoot in real barracks, but it received an outright refusal, as the Ministry feared to exacerbate the already harsh controversy that at the time had invested the Army because of a chain of suicides in the barracks as a result of hazing. The film, therefore, was filmed partly in Rome between the Empire Studios, the private school Nazarene College and the psychiatric hospital Santa Maria della Piet, and Trieste, in the museum of national history.Fabrizio Corallo, Ragazzi di naja, 'Panorama', 31 May 1987, p. 15.

Plot



The year is 1987. In a barracks in Pontebba, various young people who differ from each other in character, ways of life and social background are gathered for military service. To target the recruits are first the older soldiers (the 'nonni'), then lieutenant Fili, who shows particular dislike for private Scanna. The officer vents on the soldier his existential dissatisfaction, the disappointment for a lack of promotion, the morbid jealousy for his wife Anna. But despite the harassment, the dismissal is approaching. On the very last night, the young soldiers, fully armed, are called for a strange exercise and leave by plane to an unknown destination.

Cast



*Claudio Amendola: Claudio Scanna

*Massimo Dapporto: Lieutenant Armando Fili

*Ivo Garrani: Colonel

*Claudio Botosso: Adalberto Romani

*Alessandro Benvenuti: Buzzi

*Agostina Belli: Anna Fili

*Manlio Dov: Salvatore Sciaffa

*Pietro Ghislandi: Dario Del Grillo

*Antonella Ponziani: Annina

*Sandro Ghiani: Corporal Porcu

*Ugo Conti: Sergeant Gallo

References




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