Mediterraneo
by Gabriele Salvatores
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Actor: Claudio Bigagli, Claudio Bisio, Diego Abatantuono, Gigio Alberti, Giuseppe CedernaDirector: Gabriele Salvatores
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language); Greek (Original Language); Italian (Original Language); Turkish (Original Language)
Format: Color, NTSC
Running Time: 90 minutes
Release Date: 2003-01-14
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Publisher: Walt Disney Video
Studio: Walt Disney Video
VHS Movie Reviews of Mediterraneo
Movie Review: One of the best recent Italian films
Summary: 5 Stars
This wonderful Italian film shot during the 1990's, tells the story of a group of misfit Italian soldiers from various parts of Italy sent to occupy a Greek Island during World War II of zero strategic importance.
Through a series of mishaps, they lose a soldier's beloved pet donkey, and their essential two-way radio, effectively cutting them off and leaving them forgotten during the war.
Left stranded on the seemingly deserted isle, they discover they are not alone once the inhabitants realize the Italian soldiers are harmless, unlike the brutal German occupiers who preceded them.
As the natives emerge from hiding, a gradual interface between the Italians and the Greek inhabitants develops.
Bittersweet, hysterical, and almost poetic, this film is sure to delight you with its touch of whimsey, well-defined characters who all develop throughout the film, and its nostalgic look at a time long lost.
Winner of the 1991 Academy Awards for Best Foreign Film and difficult to find on DVD (unlike VHS), don't pass this film up. Everyone I've shown this gem to has loved it.
Summary of Mediterraneo
This 1991 comedy by Gabriele Salvatores was knocked for not being deep enough, but it is what it is, and it's actually an easygoing, sunny movie about eight Italian soldiers who manage to strand themselves on a tiny Greek island paradise during World War II. The sort of mutts who would shoot a donkey for not knowing the proper password, these clumsy warriors become a comic variation on the Lotus Eaters of myth, their fighting spirit evaporated in the midst of so much beauty and sexual availability among the local women. There are also sundry opportunities for the men to find another purpose for their lives (one particularly artistic fellow works on the restoration of a church, for example). Amid the sometimes coarse jokes and gratuitous nudity, there are subtle themes about the contrast between what men are truly like in their natural state versus what they are like as killers. (The Thin Red Line this isn't, but Salvatores does, in his own way, touch on some of the same themes.) Watch this one on a cold winter's day and vicariously enjoy the tans as well as the antiwar sentiment. --Tom KeoghArt House & International VHS Video
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