''Il disertore'' (also known as ''The Deserter'') is a 1983

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written and directed by Giuliana Berlinguer. It is based on the novel with the same name by

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. It was entered into the competition at the 40th edition of the

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* Irene Papas as Mariangela * Cristina Maccioni as Pietrina *

Omero Antonutti Omero Antonutti (3 August 1935 – 5 November 2019) was an Italian actor and voice actor. Biography Born in Basiliano, in the province of Udine (in the Northeastern Italian region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia), after having worked in shipyards A ...

as Don Coi * Enrico Pau as Monsignor Pau * Antonio Cipriato as Roberto Manca * Salvatore Mossa as Francesco Isalle *

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as Saverio * Isella Orchis as Lica * Adolfo Lastetti as Urbano Costai * Franco Noè as Dante Taverna * Piero Nuti as Alessandro Comina

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