The Camp Followers

Le soldatesse
Le soldatesse
Directed by	Valerio Zurlini
Written by	Leonardo Benvenuti, Piero De Bernardi
Starring	Anna Karina
Music by	Mario Nascimbene
Release date	4 November 1965;
Running time	120 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

The Camp Followers (Italian: Le soldatesse), is a 1965 Italian World War II film directed by Valerio Zurlini and starring Anna Karina.^[1] From a 1956 novel by Ugo Pirro, it tells the story of a young lieutenant in the Italian Army who in 1942 is ordered to take a lorryload of Greek prostitutes from starving Athens under Axis occupation to entertain the troops fighting partisans in Albania. The film was entered into the 4th Moscow International Film Festival where it won the Special Silver Prize.^[2]

^ Dan Pavlides (2007). "NY Times.com: The Camp Followers". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2007-11-18. Retrieved 2010-01-25.
^ "4th Moscow International Film Festival (1965)". MIFF. Archived from the original on 2013-01-16. Retrieved 2012-12-06.