The Great War (1959 film)

The Great War (1959 film)

Infobox Film
name = The Great War


image_size =
caption = Italian film poster
director = Mario Monicelli
producer = Dino De Laurentiis
writer = Agenore Incrocci
Mario Monicelli
narrator =
starring = Alberto Sordi
Vittorio Gassman
Silvana Mangano
Romolo Valli
music = Nino Rota
cinematography = Giuseppe Rotunno
editing = Adriana Novelli
distributor =
released = flagicon|Italy September, 1959 (premiere at VFF)
flagicon|USA 30 August, 1961
runtime = 135 mins
country = Italy/France
language = Italian
budget =
gross =
preceded_by =
followed_by =
website =
amg_id =
imdb_id = 0052861

"The Great War" ( _it. La grande guerra) is a 1959 Italian film directed by Mario Monicelli. It tells the story of two young Italian men and their experiences in World War I.

The film won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. It was an Academy Award nominee as Best Foreign Film.

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title=Golden Lion winner
years=1959
tied with "General della Rovere"
before="Rickshaw Man"
after="Le Passage du Rhin"


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