Summary
Sturmtruppen is a 1976 comedy film directed by Salvatore Samperi. It is based on the homonymous Sturmtruppen comic books created by Bonvi.[2][3]
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| Directed by | Salvatore Samperi |
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| Based on | Sturmtruppen by Bonvi |
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| Cinematography | Giuseppe Rotunno[1] |
| Edited by | Sergio Montanari[1] |
| Music by | Enzo Jannacci[1] |
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Running time | 100 minutes[1] |
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Cast edit
- Renato Pozzetto as Rookie
- Lino Toffolo as Rookie
- Cochi Ponzoni as General
- Teo Teocoli as Captain
- Felice Andreasi as Sergeant / The Pope
- Massimo Boldi as Rookie
- Corinne Cléry as The Actress, The Wife, The Woman at the Villa
- Jean-Pierre Marielle as The Unknown Soldier
- Umberto Smaila as The Cook
- Bonvi as The Prisoner[1]
Production edit
Strumtruppen is a film based on a comic book series written by Bonvi about the conflict in the trenches of World War II from the point of view of the German army.[1][4] The comic series originally appeared in 1968.[4] The idea to adapt Bonvi's scripts to a film came from producers Ermanno Donati and Luigi Carpentieri who had recently produced another popular Italian production set in World War II, Salon Kitty.[4] The two got in touch with Bonvi through screenwriter Vittorio Vighi.[4]
Filming was initially set to start in June 1976.[4] The project eventually went through several different stages as Donati and Carpentieri were not convinced by the original director Ennio De Concini's vision of the film.[4] The script was originally written by Vittorio Vighi and Maria Pia Fusco but these parts were dropped and director Salvatore Samperi signed as the director.[4] De Concini later spoke about his involvement in Strumtruppen, stating that he "felt that my relationship with cinema was running out. [...] I did not feeling like doing [Strumptruppen]. I would have made a bad job and a bad movie."[4]
Release edit
Sturmtruppen was released in Italy in 1976.[1] The film was a big box office hit in Italy, grossing over a one billion lire at the box office.[5] The film's success led to a sequel Sturmtruppen 2 - Tutti al fronte which was written by Bonvi and again directed by Samperi.[5]
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Footnotes edit
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Curti 2016, p. 151.
- ^ Paolo Mereghetti. Il Mereghetti. B.C. Dalai Editore, 2010. ISBN 88-6073-626-9.
- ^ Roberto Chiti; Roberto Poppi; Enrico Lancia. Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film. Gremese, 1991. ISBN 8876059695.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Curti 2016, p. 152.
- ^ a b Curti 2016, p. 153.
Sources edit
- Curti, Roberto (2016). Diabolika: Supercriminals, Superheroes and the Comic Book Universe in Italian Cinema. Midnight Marquee Press. ISBN 978-1-936168-60-6.
External links edit
- Sturmtruppen at IMDb
