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Have you seen the movie "Mediterraneo"?
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Absolutely my favorite anti-war movie... and probably in my top 5 of ALL movies.
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1941, one year after Italy joined Germany against the Allies in World War II, a small group
of misfit Italian soldiers is sent to a small Greek island in the Aegean Sea for four months of
lookout duty. The soldiers include a lieutenant who likes art, a macho sergeant, a farmer
accompanied by his beloved donkey Silvana, and other quirky people. They are not very good
soldiers, but a cross section of average, independent men.
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The soldiers anticipate attack from outside and on the island and take all sorts of inept
precautions. They find a small town with no people. They see bombing on the horizon and realize
that the ship that would pick them up has been destroyed. Then mysteriously, people reappear in
the village: the villagers say they hid because the Germans had taken all the men. They have
decided to accommodate the Italians. It isn't long before everyone's sunny nature appears. The
Italian soldiers are absorbed into the life, heat and landscape of the idyllic island.
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The local priest asks the lieutenant, a Sunday painter, to restore the murals in his church. Two
soldiers, who are brothers, befriend a lovely young woman, a shepherdess, who believes that three
is the perfect number for an affair of pure sexual fun. The sergeant takes up folk dancing and the
shyest of the soldiers falls profoundly in love with the island's single, very overworked prostitute.
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Not to mention the only contact they have with the outside world for YEARS is a Turkish smuggler
who sails in on a tiny boat for a short visit -- introducing them to hashish.
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