Everybody Go Home (1960)

Original title

Tutti a casa

Directed by

Luigi Comencini

Genre

drama film, war film, comedy drama

Country

France, Italy

Runtime

1h 57m

Rating

7.6 of 10 from 122 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A group of Italian soldiers straggle home after the 1943 Allied invasion of Italy. They face a disoriented country under dual occupation by Germans and Americans.

bittersweetchaoticironicpoignantunderstatedwartimegroundedmoody

What happens

Everybody Go Home (Italian: Tutti a casa) is a 1960 Italian comedy-drama film directed by Luigi Comencini. It features an international cast including the U.S. actors Martin Balsam, Alex Nicol and the Franco-Italian Serge Reggiani. Nino Manfredi was rejected for the starring role because Alberto Sordi wanted it. The film is set during the Allied invasion of Italy in 1943. It is one of the most famous films of the Commedia all'italiana genre. It also belongs to a large genre of Italian films about Italy during the chaos after the invasion and double occupation of September 1943 - others include Rome, Open City, Paisan, General Della Rovere, Violent Summer, Long Night in 1943, Escape by Night, Two Women, The Fascist, The Abandoned, The Four Days of Naples, and Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom. In 2008, the film was included on the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage’s 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that "have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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