We Want the Colonels
1973 · 102 MIN · IMDB 6.8 · 685 VOTES · DIR. Mario Monicelli
Overview
Italy 1973. Giuseppe Tritoni (Ugo Tognazzi) is an ultra-right-wing congressman that doesn't agree anymore with his fascist party policy. He contacts many Italian Army officers and built a net of relationship in order to organize a Coup d'Etat (Golpe). Something goes wrong and the Interior Minister (Home Secretary) Mr. Li Masi (Lino Pugliesi) got the all information about the attempted Golpe. So the Minister organizes a counter-Golpe. Tritoni desperately, to save his project, kidnaps the Italian Republic President (Claude Dauphin) that immediately dies for heartache. Now Minister Mr. Li Masi is free to lay down the law to the rest of the country, realizing basically the actual Golpe! Tritoni surrenders and will spend rest of his time trying to sell his ideas about managing Golpe in Africa!
Dialogue Timeline — 1,310 lines
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00:01:42 - MONDAY JUNE 2 -
00:05:19 The explosion had avictim,..
00:08:10 [..of his long-cherished project.]
00:13:02 Speak Italian, damn it, I can't understand!
00:16:35 - Do you agree, yes or no? - Yes, yes, yes!
00:20:50 To hop? What do you mean?
00:25:37 - Is it true you play that? - Just a bit.
00:28:46 ..to convince him. - That would be great.
00:33:33 My burning desire for you reduces me to cinders!
00:37:52 Well trained at steering through stormy waters, I imagine.
00:41:54 Now let's find a code name for our operation.
00:44:57 - To us! - To the King!
00:48:53 I had asked her to pose for some professional portraits..
00:52:28 [..for Di Cori than all that bla bla bla.]
00:56:44 - Please, make yourself at home. - Cristiana!
00:59:59 So was the March on Rome, but it ended badly..
01:03:31 The last phase, the most delicate: the attack from the sea.
01:07:53 Slow down, for God's sake! Out with you! Come on! Out!
01:12:14 ..by force, if necessary! Sardinia is watching you!
01:16:27 ..impeccable. It's the execution of it that didn't work out.
01:20:04 ..thanks to the strategic positioning of the armed forces..
01:25:47 ..has reached the end of its tether and demands social peace.
01:29:03 ..which will regulate the right to strike..
415:12:02 Can you hear me?