Everybody Go Home (Tutti a casa)

Luigi Comencini directed Everybody Go Home (originally Tutti a casa), an Italian-French production of 1960. A satirical comedy-drama that is also a war film, it stands out among the best-known works of the commedia all'italiana tradition. Some critics count it among Comencini's finest and the most important postwar Italian films. It won the jury prize at the Moscow Film Festival and earned lead actor Alberto Sordi and producer Dino De Laurentiis two David di Donatello awards. In 2008 it joined the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage's list of 100 Italian films to be saved, films that changed the country's collective memory between 1942 and 1978.

The story is set during the Allied invasion of Italy in 1943. The film belongs to a broad strand of Italian cinema about the chaos that followed the double occupation of September 1943; Rome, Open City and Paisan are other examples. Sordi stars; Nino Manfredi was considered for the part but rejected because Sordi wanted it himself. The cast is international: the Americans Martin Balsam and Alex Nicol, the Franco-Italian Serge Reggiani, Eduardo De Filippo, Nino Castelnuovo, Guido Celano and Gabriella Giorgelli.

Age & Scarpelli, Marcello Fondato and Comencini wrote the screenplay together, and Angelo Francesco Lavagnino composed the score. It runs 117 minutes.