At War for Love (2016)
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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Additional Info
| Budget | $0.00 |
|---|---|
| Revenue | $0.00 |
| Original Language | it |
| Popularity | 6.518 |
Directed By
Pif
Crew
Patrick Carrarin
Santi Pulvirenti
Gilberto Martinelli
Marco Lassalaz
Massimiliano Gelo
Giuseppe Meloni
Piero Bosi
Pif
Pif
Michele Astori
Marco Martani
Mario Gianani
Lorenzo Mieli
Roberto Forza
Pasquale Catalano
Pif
Michele Astori
Olivia Sleiter
Clelio Benevento
Francesca Borromeo
Maurilio Mangano
Marcello Di Carlo
Luciano Cammerieri
Cristiana Ricceri
Maurizio Fazzini
Alessia Iacino
Agrò Mauro
Carlo Corbucci
Valentina Fiordiliso
Saverio Giuseppe Guarascio
Francesco Renda
Alberto Mangiante
Edoardo Francesco Marini
Michela Bevilacqua
Sergio Chiovaro
Giovambattista Delfino
Massimiliano Di Carlo
Gabriella Maiolo
Alessandro Mancuso
Marco Marini
Luigi Puleo
Filippo Sciortino
Santo Spalla
Niccolò Spinelli
Alessandra Traina
Paolo Amici
Federico Amodio
Italo Cameracanna
Daniele Quadroli
David Quadroli
Fabrizio Quadroli
Alessandro Salvatori
Damiano Silva
Paolo Galiano
Ezio Sabelli
Francesco Sabelli
Fabio Traversari
Marco Bersani
Massimo Cipollina
Stefano Colaprete
Lena Di Gennaro
Daphne Mereu
Rodolfo Migliari
Chiara Milita
Roberto Saba
Daniele Starnoni
Barbara Valente
Jdanov Andrei
Paolo Antonini
Mattia Napoli
Alessandro Novelli
Emiliano Novelli
Valentina Paradiso
Gabriele Scilla
Vittorio Verdirosi
Gianni Aldi
Stefania Bona
Paolo Ciriello
Islam Deyab
Mauro Faina
Carlo Lazzari
Flavio Lombardi
Flavio Meloni
Guido Michelotti
Lorenzo Peyrone
Enrico Zanetti
Francesco Scazzosi
Francesco Scazzosi
Federica Baglioni
Cassandra Han
Bibiane Oldenburg
Roberto Scarduffa
Lorenzo Viti
Fabio Angelotti
Stefania Colombo
Marzia Nardone
Elena Pascaniuc
Andrea Baracca
Davide D'Angelo
Angelo Francavilla
Martina Ranieri
Christian Peritore
Emanuele Bossi
Eunice Cangianiello
Thierry Malet
Thierry Malet
Federica De Vita
Tommaso Giannì
Grazia Netti
Lynn Swanson
Ettore Scola
TOP CAST
Pif
Arturo
Miriam Leone
Flora
Andrea Di Stefano
Tenente Philip Catelli
Stella Egitto
Teresa
David Mitchum Brown
Franklin Roosevelt
Maurizio Marchetti
Don Calò
Sergio Vespertino
Saro
Maurizio Bologna
Mimmo
Antonello Puglisi
Agostino
Samuele Segreto
Sebastiano
Mario Pupella
Don Tano
Orazio Stracuzzi
Zio Alfredo
Lorenzo Patané
Carmelo
Aurora Quattrocchi
Annina
Forest Baker
Generale Patton
Rosario Minardi
Lucky Luciano
Salvatore Ragusa
Tommaso Lo Presti
Domenico Centamore
Tonino
Antonio Alveario
L'Uomo Che Mostra Interesse per Teresa
Salvatore La Mantia
L'Uomo in Lutto per il Fratello
Vincent Riotta
Maggiore Maone
Eric Alexander
Tenente Adamsky
Claudio Ambrosetti
Contadino Spiaggia
Daniel Emilio Baldock
Ufficiale
Emma Cardillo
Donna Siciliana
Gino Carista
Contadino
Giovanna Centamore
Sarta
Larry Kapust
Colonnello Monrovia
Giuseppe Longinotti
Organizzatore Matrimonio
Robert Madison
Piantone Casa Bianca
Alex Mariotti
Tenente Nuovo
Liborio Natali
Tommaso
Maurizio Nicolosi
Uomo con Giacca e Cravatta
Cristiano Pasca
Siciliano
Craig Peritz
Tenente Monrovia
Nika Perrone
Rosalba
Alessandra Pizzullo
Madre Flora
Filippo Pucillo
Soldato Italiano
Aldo Rapé
Contadino Imputato
Matthew T. Reynolds
Barista
Mansur Senyonga
Soldato di Colore
Maurizio Spicuzza
Padre Flora
Dario Veca
Maresciallo Carabinieri
David Kirk Traylor
Ufficiale Bar
Mauro Aversano
Picciotto (uncredited)
Francesco Baj
(uncredited)
Alessio Vassallo
(uncredited)
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