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Feature film — 2024

Battlefield (2024)

6.41h 44mDrama — History — War

These are the years of the First World War and Dr. Stefano Zorzi spends his days in the Exemption Clinic in a large city of Northern Italy, where he not only takes care of soldiers who arrive from the massacre of the front, but also he fights simulation and self-harm of those who hope to be dispensed, by sending them before the Military Court. If Stefano, in fact, does his utmost to heal soldiers and send them back to fight, Dr. Giulio Farradio makes them ill, or helps them to self-injure seriously enough to be exonerated. The two doctors, who went to university together and were great friends, they not only (secretly) challenge each other on a professional level, but also on the sentimental one: they are both linked to Anna, a courageous nurse with a strong character. But when the great ‘Spanish’ fever epidemic arrived in 1918, the time for love, politics and science ends up getting confused dangerously...

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A high-signal pick with 112 votes.

Kavac Film / RAI Cinema / IBC MOvie / One Art Film / Friuli Venezia Giulia Film Commission / Trentino Film Commission

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Director: Gianni Amelio

On screen

Cast & crew

Alessandro Borghi as Giulio

Alessandro Borghi

Giulio

Gabriel Montesi as Stefano

Gabriel Montesi

Stefano

Federica Rosellini as Anna

Federica Rosellini

Anna

Giovanni Scotti as Soldato siciliano

Giovanni Scotti

Soldato siciliano

Vince Vivenzio as Soldato napoletano

Vince Vivenzio

Soldato napoletano

Alberto Cracco as Padre di Stefano

Alberto Cracco

Padre di Stefano

Luca Lazzareschi as Il Generale

Luca Lazzareschi

Il Generale

M

Maria-Grazia Plos

L'Infermiera

R

Rita Bosello

Donna al cancello

G

Giuseppe Amelio

Soldato calabrese

R

Roberta Barbiero

Sorella di Stefano

F

Francesco Busolin

Soldato al cancello