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While There's War There's Hope (1974)
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Original name: Finché c'è guerra c'è speranza
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Pietro Chiocca shifts from hydraulic pumps to heavy war weapons selling. He starts traveling all around the third world looking for clients, and contract by contract his economic situation shoot up, raising also his social status. But is never enough for his family, their needs increase more than the available earnings. For Pietro to sell weapons is becoming every day more stressful, every day more filthy. It has become normal for him to sell stuff to crazy corrupted bloodthirsty African dictators. He has also to fight competition with a French rival. His dirty activity explodes on national press; he becomes a monster for the public opinion. Pietro's family is hypocritically upset with him too! May be it was better the old bathroom equipment sector. Can he come back on his steps?
Style:
black comedy, satirical, period piece, dark comedy, italian comedy
Plot:
arms dealer, children, corruption, political satire, dark humor, greed, hypocrisy, ethical dilemma, ambition, rise and fall, family drama, cold war era, character study, social status, third world, business rivalry, career change, travelogue, consumerism, political commentary
Time:
70s
Place:
africa, italy
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