Luigi Comencini
Tutti a casa

THE REVIEW

The war is about to end, so they say, the Germans are on the ropes, the Americans are landing.

The fascist party, however, has reformed, the Germans are not leaving Italy, they shoot, kill, deport, they instill fear, they are no longer our allies... what a mess!

Alberto Sordi is Second Lieutenant Alberto Innocenzi unì-duì unì-duì passssoooooo! and needless to say, he brings amusement even in the midst of war...

The radio says there's an armistice, that the war is over, it's a celebration but also chaos. The soldiers take off their uniforms, want to go home, they all want to go home... but it won't be that way for everyone.

Innocenzi has precise orders, so to speak, but in any case, diligently tries to lead his regiment to Verona as hastily instructed by phone.

Marching, then! ...but who believes in the war anymore? Enough already...

Extraordinary drama-comedy-war-road movie that rightfully enters among the most important Italian films on the great war.

Written by Comencini himself together with the masters Age&Scarpelli, it is a film that engages, enthralls, and is damn realistic in an era (we are in 1960) when Italian cinema is at the world peak, it's a model, an example.

There are tears, laughter, reflections on the absurdity of war, on the sense of duty.

There's someone who will give their life to save another but if they hadn't, perhaps two would have died, so to speak...

There's the American soldier secretly hidden in the attic and we are shown his "superiority," his right to superiority as liberator, savior, and American.

Far ahead of its time and foreseen with extraordinary accuracy, we also see his arrogance; he smokes at the table, wants the only sausage for himself, and when denied his "right," he disdainfully throws the cigarette on the floor and indignantly leaves the table.

Even Innocenzi, so determined, dutiful, and professional, will soon understand the madness of war and the absurdity of everything it entails, like the military model.

A flight to freedom that will become "awareness." Awareness that the greatest danger is EGOISM and FEAR because only when you abandon these two vile demons will you become A MAN.