The General of the Dead Army

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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.

Country:

France,

Italy

Genre:

Drama

Duration:

105 minutes

Year:

1983

Director:

Luciano Tovoli

Cast:
Marcello Mastroianni

General Ariosto

Anouk Aimée

Countess Betsy Mirafiore

Michel Piccoli

Benetandi

Gérard Klein

General Krotz

Sergio Castellitto

The Expert

Crew:
Luciano Tovoli

Director

Ismail Kadare

Novel

Michel Piccoli

Producer

Jean-Claude Carrière

Writer

Davide Bassan

Production Designer