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| Directed by | Marco Risi |
| Written by | Stefano Sudriè Marco Risi Marco Modugno Furio Scarpelli |
| Cinematography | Giuseppe Berardini |
| Music by | Manuel De Sica |
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| Language | Italian |
Soldati - 365 all'alba (i.e. "Soldiers 365 Days Before Discharge") is a1987Italiandrama film directed byMarco Risi. The film, which deals with themilitary service seen as a traumatic experience, marked the switch of Risi from low-wattage comedies to more complex themes.[1]
Before coming into production, the screenplay was submitted to theMinistry of Defence to obtain the necessary permits to shoot in real barracks, but it received an outright refusal, as the Ministry feared to exacerbate the already harsh controversy that at the time had invested the Army because of a chain of suicides in the barracks as a result ofhazing. The film, therefore, was filmed partly inRome between the Empire Studios, the private school Nazarene College and the psychiatric hospital Santa Maria della Pietà, andTrieste, in the museum of national history.[2]
The year is 1987. In a barracks inPontebba, various young people who differ from each other in character, ways of life and social background are gathered for military service. To target the recruits are first the older soldiers (thenonni), thenlieutenant Fili, who shows particular dislike for private Scanna. The officer vents on the soldier his existential dissatisfaction, the disappointment for a lack of promotion, the morbid jealousy for his wife Anna. But despite the harassment, the dismissal is approaching. On the very last night, the young soldiers, fully armed, are called for a strange exercise and leave by plane to an unknown destination.
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