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.
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Edited by Mirco GarroneShot by Luciano TovoliDesigned by Alessandro Dell Orco
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20 unique people credited
Top billed cast
Cosimo Calabrese
as The President
Salvatore Buccolieri
as The Old Man
Carmine De Padova
as L'ordonnance
Roberto Miccoli
as The Shepherd
Marcello Mastroianni
as General Ariosto
Anouk Aimee
as Countess Betsy Mirafiore
Michel Piccoli
as Benetandi
Gerard Klein
as General Krotz
Sergio Castellitto
as The Expert
Daniele Dublino
as The Minister
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