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The Great War

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Masterpiece in the history of cinema, the film is an ironic and poignant portrait of life in the trenches during the First World War. Starring Oreste Jacovacci and Giovanni Busacca as soldiers stripped of rhetoric, coward-heroes. It attracted a lot of controversy over its content and hard-hitting viewpoint. Thousands of real soldiers were provided by…

From appetizer to dessert

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Friuli Venezia Giulia is a land to be savoured ... following the film locations! If you loved Salvatores's film “Come Dio comanda” shot in Pordenone and Montereale Valcellina, it is impossible not to choose a typical appetizer from the Pordenone area: pitina, a salami of peasant origins born from the need to preserve meat during…

A Farewell to Arms

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The Hollywood producer David Oliver Selznick chose Friuli for this film, based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway. Among the exceptional cast, is an outstanding Rock Hudson, Jennifer Jones, Vittorio de Sica and Alberto Sordi. The film tells the story of Frederick Henry, a young American journalist wounded on the Italian front and admitted to…

The Girl and the General

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During the First World War, after the defeat at Caporetto, a soldier called Tarasconi captures an Austrian general. Aided by the young Ada, a local peasant, he decides to take him to his superiors to get a gold medal and the prize of 1000 lire. An unlikely friendship develops between the three of them. The…

Holy Cow!

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Primo Baffo (First Mustache), an overworked cabaret singer, is sent to the front in spite of having done everything possible to be rejected for military service. The first day, after a few kilometers, he meets a girl - Marianna – who, with the help of an accomplice, Tomo Secondo, robs him of his clothes and…