Les Carabiniers

Improbable even by the writer-director's standards, two riflemen assail "Venus" and "Cleopatra," then brothers "Michelangelo" and "Ulysses" (Marino Mase, Albert Juross), who will become the principals, opening Jean-Luc Godard's Les carabiniers, shot in 1963, released in the U.S. in 1968.

Following expansive war montage footage, and having taken their first civilian prisoners, footloose soldiers Ulysses (Albert Juross) and Michelangelo (Marino Mase) encounter an officer, then seek a nice spot for an execution, in Jean-Luc Godard's Les carabiniers, 1963.