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1976 film

Sturmtruppen

Directed by	Salvatore Samperi
Screenplay by	Renato Pozzetto Cochi Ponzoni Maria Pia Fusco Vittorio Vighi
Based on	Sturmtruppen by Bonvi
Starring	Renato Pozzetto Cochi Ponzoni Lino Toffolo Teo Teocoli
Cinematography	Giuseppe Rotunno
Edited by	Sergio Montanari
Music by	Enzo Jannacci
Production companies	Irrigazione Cinematografica Les Films Jacques Leitienne
Release date	1976 (1976) (Italy)
Running time	100 minutes
Countries	Italy France

Sturmtruppen is a 1976 comedy film directed by Salvatore Samperi. It is based on the homonymous Sturmtruppen comic books created by Bonvi.

Cast

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

Production

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. The comic series originally appeared in 1968. 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. The two got in touch with Bonvi through screenwriter Vittorio Vighi.

Filming was initially set to start in June 1976. 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. 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. 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 . I would have made a bad job and a bad movie."

Release

Sturmtruppen was released in Italy in 1976. The film was a big box office hit in Italy, grossing over a one billion lire at the box office. The film's success led to a sequel Sturmtruppen 2 - Tutti al fronte [it] which was written by Bonvi and again directed by Samperi.

References

Footnotes

^ 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.
^ Curti 2016, p. 152.
^ Curti 2016, p. 153.

Sources

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

Sturmtruppen at IMDb

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