Battlefield

Battlefield

2024 · 104 min · ★ 6.5 · Drama, 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...

Directed by Gianni Amelio · Written by Alberto Taraglio

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Alessandro Borghi Giulio
Gabriel Montesi Stefano
Federica Rosellini Anna
Giovanni Scotti Soldato siciliano
Vince Vivenzio Soldato napoletano
Alberto Cracco Padre di Stefano
Luca Lazzareschi Il Generale
Maria-Grazia Plos L'Infermiera
Rita Bosello Donna al cancello
Giuseppe Amelio Soldato calabrese
Roberta Barbiero Sorella di Stefano
Francesco Busolin Soldato al cancello

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