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 -
00:05:17 If we don't move quickly....
00:07:57 There.
00:12:34 Excuse me, may I phone?
00:15:49 [..known as "tiburtini" after the area where they have factories.]
00:20:21 It's the language of Caesar!
00:24:59 How's my boy getting along?
00:28:03 Anyhow, you're on the list.
00:32:32 - Ouch! - You were paying him for helping me, eh?
00:36:59 Come with me, I've got something.
00:40:48 ..should fail, the generous Hellenic Republic..
00:43:49 I know who: Federico Fellini!
00:47:32 ..fighting side by side during the Resistance..
00:51:07 Leave me the evidence and....
00:55:00 Yes, there's a great past in our future.
00:58:30 ..but, speaking objectively, am I wrong?
01:01:39 - And the fiesta begins! - Bravo! - Viva!
01:05:32 ..but with the heart beating with emotion!
01:10:10 - Quick, a phone! - Get off!
01:13:35 - We'd better shut him up! - I don't get it. What kind of....
01:17:54 This is sheer madness!
01:21:30 What's going on?
01:26:35 ..or two as you say, we will get a third!
01:29:59 Frank Coppola, responsible for the restructurization,..