Everybody Go Home

Everybody Go Home Italian Tutti a casa is a 1960 Italian comedydrama film directed by Luigi Comencini. It features an international cast including the U.S. actors Martin Balsam, Alex Nicol and the FrancoItalian Serge Reggiani. Nino Manfredi was rejected for the starring role because Alberto Sordi wanted it.

Along the Venetian seaside, on the morning of September 8, 1943, Alberto Innocenzi, junior NCO of the Royal Italian Army is shocked when in response to the separate surrender signed by the Badoglio government in Cassibile the former allies of the Wehrmacht surround and take by storm the base where hes stationed. Innocenzi, along with some disbanded soldiers, manages to distance the German troops and is thoroughly shocked when, contrary to his plan of finding a higher echelon to which to report, most of the men accept the fact that the war is over for them and everybody should just go home.This reaction at first angers him, but in the end he joins army engineer Ceccarelli and sergeant Fornaciari in discarding their uniforms for civilian clothes and heading southwards for a veritable odyssey along the Italian boot, cut in two by German and Allied occupation and wracked by partisan warfare, bloody reprisals, German pressganging and other perils. The trio meets a band of antifascist guerrillas but decline to join them while an Italian army captain they met along the road does. Later Innocenzi, caught in the everybody for himself mentality which seems to dominate the landscape, succumbs to the temptation of abandoning his mates to help a sultry black marketeer smuggle a load of flour to Rome, as she needs a driver and does not have room for any other passengers. The deal goes awry due to a mechanical failure in a rubblestrewn town where the famished populace plunders the lorry, and after some recriminations and a brief scuffle, Innocenzi rejoins his companions. They witness the killing of a rookie, a naive Italian soldier who tried to protect a Jewish girl during a German roundup finally they manage to reach Fornaciaris rural home. ........

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