The Shortest Day

1963 Italian war movie parody
  • Ciccio Ingrassia
  • Franco Franchi
  • Gino Cervi
  • Totò
  • Annie Girardot
  • Ugo Tognazzi
  • Eduardo De Filippo
  • Peppino De Filippo
  • Aldo Fabrizi
  • Philippe Leroy
  • Amedeo Nazzari
  • Tomas Milian
CinematographyEnzo BarboniEdited byRuggero MastroianniMusic byPiero PiccioniDistributed byTitanus Films
Release date
1963
Running time
95 minutesCountryItalyLanguagesItalian
English
German
French

The Shortest Day (Italian: Il giorno più corto) is a 1963 Italian comedy film. It is a parody of the war movie The Longest Day and stars the popular duo Franco and Ciccio in the leading roles. Dozens of other well-known actors, from both European and American cinema, agreed to appear in the movie in cameo roles for free to avert the bankruptcy of the production company, Titanus.[1][2][3]

Plot

Two Sicilians, Franco and Ciccio, are taken from a small town in Sicily and shipped out with a unit in the Italian army which has to fight the Austrian troops in World War I. Upon war's end, Franco and Ciccio, more clumsy than ever, return to Italy but find themselves out of work.

Cast

References

  1. ^ "Il giorno piu' corto". AntonioDeCurtis.com. Retrieved 22 November 2011.
  2. ^ "Il giorno più corto". Rai.
  3. ^ Alberto Anile. "Il giorno più corto - rassegna stampa". My Movies. Retrieved 22 November 2011.

External links

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