Madman at War
A comedic wartime farce built on the clash between military authority and unpredictable eccentricity, using absurdity and the 'holy fool' archetype to satirize institutional rigidity.
A young psychiatrist struggles to remove an erratic captain from command at an Italian base in the Lybian desert during World War II.
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