Movie War
In the summer of 1942, during the Second World War, a group of young paratroopers from the Folgore Division, after having been subjected to a long and tiring training in Italy, was transported by air to the Libyan desert to cover the Italian-German front.
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Fausto Tozzi Ettore Manni Monica Clay Aldo Bufi Landi José Jaspe Beatrice Mancini Lea Padovani Marco Vicario Terence Hill Paolo Panelli Ubaldo Negrelli Ettore Jannetti Carlo Delle Piane Claudio Biava Renato Accardi Luciano Volpato Daniela Vicario Adriano Uriani Renato Tontini Carlo Tamberlani Carlo Tadini Vladimír Štróbl Rosita Pisano Franco Pilloni Corrado Nardi Sandro Moretti Fabrizio Mioni Milo Manfredi Nino Mancini Germano Longo Marco Guglielmi Aldo Fantini Mario Conti Nando Cicero Giorgio Capitani Sergio Bartolini Carlo Bellini Edo Acconci
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