Monicelli, Mario	...	(Director)
Agenore Incrocci, Mario Monicelli	...	(Writer)
Alberto Sordi	...	Oreste Jacovacci
Vittorio Gassman	...	Giovanni Busacca
Silvana Mangano	...	Costantina
Folco Lulli	...	Bordin
Bernard Blier	...	Capitano Castelli
Romolo Valli	...	Tenente Gallina
Vittorio Sanipoli	...	Maggiore Venturi
Nicola Arigliano	...	Giardino
Geronimo Meynier	...	Il portaordini
Mario Valdemarin	...	Sottotenente Lorenzi
Elsa Vazzoler	...	Moglie di Boradin
Tiberio Murgia	...	Rosario Nicotra
Livio Lorenzon	...	Sergente Barriferri
Ferruccio Amendola	...	De Concini
Carlo D'Angelo	...	Capitano Ferri
Luciano Vincenzoni	...	Story
Nino Rota	...	Music
Roberto Gerardi	...	Director of Photography
Giuseppe Rotunno	...	Director of Photography
Leonida Barboni	...	Director of Photography
Giuseppe Serrandi	...	Director of Photography
Adriana Novelli	...	Editor
Mario Garbuglia	...	Production Design
Danilo Donati	...	Costume Design
Piero Gherardi	...	Costume Design

Comments: DIT 174

Summary: Italy, 1916. Oreste Jacovacci and Giovanni Busacca are called, as all the Italian youths, to serve the army in the WWI. They both try in every way to avoid serving the army. Giovanni bribes Oreste, believing to his false pledges to make him avoiding the army. But the destiny make them meeting again on the train directed to the front. Nevertheless Oreste stolen money to Giovanni they become friends and in first times are allocated to a secondary and quite front (village of Tigliano). Here they spend some months in relative peace and Giovanni finds time to fall in love for prostitute Costantina. But war is getting everyday closer. During the most important battle among Italians and Austro-Hungarians, Giovanni and Oreste are in charge to deliver a vital message to the Italian headquarters. But, unfortunately, they fall in the hands of an Austrian officer that, under life menace, starts an interrogation to find out the Italian message. What they should try to do now?