''The Two Marshals'' () is a 1961 Italian

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written and directed by

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. The film was a hit at the Italian box office, with 2.765.531 spectators and a total gross of 536.513.000 lire.Matilde Amorosi, Alessandro Ferraù. ''Totò. Siamo uomini o caporali? Diario semiserio di Antonio de Curtis''. Newton & Compton, 1996. .

Plot

In Italy, during 1943, two men collide during the bombing of the

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and American allies. Antonio Capurro is a thief who disguises himself as a priest for the robberies at the train stations; Vittorio Cotone is a

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marshal upright who's chasing Antonio, and that in the end, to a misunderstanding, he is forced to do so by Marshal dress. Antonio is excited about the new appointment, and Vittorio meanwhile disguises himself as a priest. In fact the two, in the days of the Badoglio Proclamation, are persecuted by the Nazis and fascists because they're hiding a

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, a Jewish girl and an American soldier who is planning the Allied landing.

Cast

Totò Antonio Griffo Focas Flavio Angelo Ducas Comneno Porfirogenito Gagliardi De Curtis di Bisanzio (15 February 1898 – 15 April 1967), best known by his stage name Totò (), or simply as Antonio de Curtis, and nicknamed ''il principe della risat ...

as Antonio Capurro *

Vittorio De Sica Vittorio De Sica ( , ; 7 July 1901 – 13 November 1974) was an Italian film director and actor, a leading figure in the neorealist movement. Widely considered one of the most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema, four of the fil ...

as Marshal Vittorio Cotone * Gianni Agus as Achille Pennica, the

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as Don Nicola *

Franco Giacobini Franco Giacobini (5 March 1926 – 27 December 2015) was an Italian actor. Born in Rome as Francesco Giacobini, he graduated at Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico in 1948, then started a prolific stage career, working in come ...

as Basilio Meneghetti * Elvy Lissiak as Vanda *Roland Bartrop (billed as Roland von Bartrop) as Lieutenant Kessler *

Olimpia Cavalli Olimpia Cavalli (30 August 1930 – 29 March 2012) was an Italian actress. Born in Cadeo, Italy, she was mainly active between the late fifties and mid-sixties. After being a star on '' avanspettacolo'' alongside Erminio Macario, she made he ...

as Immacolata Di Rosa * Mario Castellani as the Thief * Mimmo Poli as the Postman * Bruno Corelli as Benegatti, the Lawyer I_due_marescialli

References

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* Italian comedy films Films directed by Sergio Corbucci 1961 comedy films 1961 films Films set in 1943 Films about Italian resistance movement Italian Campaign of World War II films Films with screenplays by Giovanni Grimaldi Films scored by Piero Piccioni 1960s Italian-language films 1960s Italian films Italian-language comedy films {{1960s-Italy-comedy-film-stub