Cinema
Everybody Go Home
Tutti a casa
Luigi Comencini · 1960
Synopsis
8 September 1943, in the Veneto. The armistice is announced while Second Lieutenant Alberto Innocenzi is out on exercise with his men; when he returns, the Germans are attacking the barracks and have become the enemy. Without orders, his soldiers scatter. Left with a handful of men, including the sapper Ceccarelli, Innocenzi ends up swapping his uniform for civilian clothes and takes the road south, towards Rome and then Naples.
Context
The screenplay is by Age and Scarpelli, Marcello Fondato and the director; the film is an Italian and French co-production by Dino De Laurentiis. Alberto Sordi plays Innocenzi, alongside Serge Reggiani, Eduardo De Filippo, who plays his father, and Martin Balsam. The director described it as the journey across wartime Italy of four drifting men who want to go home.
Who it is for
A two-hour film in which comedy and drama mingle, on one of the most confused moments of Italian history.
Prizes and reception
Special prize at the Moscow Festival in 1961; commercial success and several awards on its release in Italy.
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