The girl and the general

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Movie
German title The girl and the general
Original title La ragazza e il generale
Country of production Italy
France
original language Italian
Publishing year 1967
length 89 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Pasquale Festa Campanile
script Luigi Malerba
production Luciano Perugia
Carlo Ponti
music Ennio Morricone
camera Ennio Guarnieri
cut Jolanda Benvenuti
occupation

The girl and the general (original title: La ragazza e il generale ) is an Italian-French war film from 1967 by Pasquale Festa Campanile . Luigi Malerba wrote the script . In the main roles you can see Rod Steiger , Virna Lisi and Umberto Orsini . The work had its world premiere in October 1967 in the USA. It premiered in the Federal Republic of Germany on November 17, 1967.

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During the First World War , the Italian soldier Tarasconi accidentally made an enemy general his prisoner in one of the Austro-Italian theaters of war . Tarasconi, blessed with a healthy dose of simplicity , is by no means a misanthropist or a war fanatic, and he would have let the general go long ago if he weren't so poor. He found out from a comrade that, according to the service regulations, there is 1000 lire for a general who has been extradited, a lot, a lot of money for that time and for Tarasconi's circumstances. The temptation is therefore greater than the compassion, and Tarasconi wants to concentrate all his intelligence on getting the general behind his own lines through the Austrian war front . Fate comes to his aid in the form of the pretty, if somewhat sloppy Ada, whose good-naturedness also turned poverty into cunning.

Tarasconi and Ada decide to do half-half. The actual plot of the film now consists of this adventurous train of the three. Tarasconi and Ada are touchingly worried less about themselves than about the general, to whom nothing must be done in order not to endanger the precious capital. Despite all class differences and conflicting interests, over time the three become a community in which each appreciates the other in his own way. And if everything had gone off smoothly, Ada and Tarasconi would probably have become a happy couple with lots of “cows, furniture and children” (as they say). But then the tragic end breaks in like a natural event: Ada and Tarasconi are torn to pieces by a land mine shortly before their destination .

criticism

The lexicon of international films succinctly notes that the film is a “hard to digest mixture of comedy, tragedy and belittling of war”. The Evangelische Film-Beobachter comes to a completely different assessment  : “All in all, a well-acted, delicious portrayal of the human species, whose controversial tragic conclusion we consider to be entirely justified. Possible from 16 onwards. "

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Individual evidence

  1. a b Source: Evangelischer Filmbeobachter , Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 511/1967, pp. 650 to 651
  2. Lexicon of international films, rororo-Taschenbuch No. 6322 (1988), p. 2392