Women and Soldiers

Donne e soldati was an example of a decentralised production far from Rome something that for the most part Italian cinema didnt fully succeed in achieving until the 1990s In many ways the film which is both Picaresque and antiheroic was too far ahead of its time and it is often considered the precursor to Monicellis Larmata brancaleone This time out Ferreri takes the reins as producer of the illfated undertaking the two directors will never make another film however Donne e soldati apart from marking Ferreris estrangement from Italian cinema for a number of years today appears to display earthy and carnivalesque elements that will subsequently influence certain aspects of the Milanese directors vision