Raffaele Montini - teacher; very educated.
Antonio Farina - (devoted; light hearted; gentle).
Luciano Colasanti - (lives in Lorussos Shadow).
Eliseo Strazzabosco - (mule driver).
Vassilissa - (Prostitute; falls in love w/Farina).
Libero Munaron - (brothers lived in mountains).
Felice Munaron - (brothers never seen the sea).
Corrado Noventa - (deserter; wife w/child).
Pope - (educated priest, once lived in Rome).
Carmelo LaRosa - (Italian pilot, informs about Mussolini).
This film is entirely about right Italian soldiers who find themselves in the land of Greece. Greece is where the men end up while fighting in WWII. The ship that brought them to Greece had been blown up but they did not find out until later on in the film. The soldiers seem to be very new at this, except for one, Nicola. His character seems to be the most hilarious, however the other manage to keep the own also. Raffaelle is the Lieutenant who is put in charge of the seven men who all seem a little uptight. He himself is not a solider, but a very educated professor of Greece and has a talent for art. Farina, a very devoted solider to the Lieutenant, seems to be the most kind hearted and gentle of them all. Where as Luciano, he is Nicola's right hand man. Nicola says jump . . . Luciano asks "how high?- Then you always have the black sheep, Corrado the one who tried to escape at ever change he gets. His home in Italy with his wife and child is where he wants to be. Then you have the Munaron Brothers who are nothing but mountain men, who are not familiar with the sea at all. And last but not least Strazzabosco, the famous mule driver.
They land in Greece, only to find out that the German have left. However, they still keep a look out, in which case they leave the Mountains Brothers on the high point to watch for incoming ships. In the process they meet a Shepard's girl who they manage to get pregnant, later on in the film. Now back with the rest of the men, Farina is discovered by children who make him aware that hardly any bad is left in Greece.