For Love and Gold (1966)

Original title

L'armata Brancaleone

Directed by

Mario Monicelli

Genre

comedy film, adventure film

Country

France, Italy, Spain

Runtime

2h

Rated

16

Rating

7.7 of 10 from 401 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A group of misfits and incompetents band together in the Middle Ages. They go on a ramshackle quest that is full of mishaps and absurd situations.

comedicwhimsicallightheartedraucousadventuroussatiricalchaotic

What happens

For Love and Gold (Italian: L'armata Brancaleone), also known as The Incredible Army of Brancaleone, is an Italian comedy film released on April 7, 1966, written by the duo Age & Scarpelli and directed by Mario Monicelli. It features Vittorio Gassman in the main role. It was entered into the 1966 Cannes Film Festival. The term Armata Brancaleone is still used today in Italian to define a group of badly assembled and poorly equipped people. Brancaleone is an actual historical name, meaning the paw of lions in heraldry jargon. Brancaleone degli Andalò was a governor of Rome in the Middle Ages. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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