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At War for Love
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Title: At War for Love

Release Date: 27 Oct 2016

Runtime: 1h 39m

Genre: War, Drama, Comedy, Romance

Director: Wildside, RAI Cinema

Production Companies: Wildside, RAI Cinema

Overview: It's 1943 and World War II is raging in Europe. In New York, Arturo and Flora the daughter of a restaurant owner are in love, but she is promised in marriage to the son of a Mafia boss. There is a way around this, but to be able to marry Flora, Arturo needs to get permission from her father, who lives in a village in Sicily. Arturo doesn't have any money, so the only way he can get to Sicily is to enlist in the U.S. Army, which is preparing for a landing on the island.

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Average Vote: 7.3 (509 votes)

Cast

  • Arturo: Pif
  • Flora: Miriam Leone
  • Tenente Philip Catelli: Andrea Di Stefano
  • Teresa: Stella Egitto
  • Franklin Roosevelt: David Mitchum Brown
  • Don Calò: Maurizio Marchetti
  • Saro: Sergio Vespertino
  • Mimmo: Maurizio Bologna
  • Agostino: Antonello Puglisi
  • Sebastiano: Samuele Segreto
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