Sentinels of Bronze
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Directed by | Romolo Marcellini |
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Cinematography | Renato Del Frate |
Production company | Fono Roma |
Distributed by | Generalcine |
Release date | 21 August 1937 |
Running time | 92 minutes |
Country | Italy |
Language | Italian |
Sentinels of Bronze (Italian: Sentinelle di bronzo) is a 1937 Italian war film directed by Romolo Marcellini and starring Fosco Giachetti, Giovanni Grasso and Doris Duranti.
History[]
In the 1930s and 1940s, early Somali actors and film technicians co-operated with Italian crews to domestically produce Fascist films. Among the latter productions were Dub'aad and Sentinels of Bronze. The movie "Sentinels of Bronze" (Sentinelle di bronzo[1]) was awarded in the Festival di Venezia of 1937 as the "Best Italian colonial Film", winning an Italian Cup.[2]
The film is a propaganda work set in the days leading up to the outbreak of the Second Italo-Ethiopian War.
Topic[]
In an incident modeled on the Wal Wal incident, an Italian outpost is besieged by large numbers of Abyssinian troops, but the garrison refuse to surrender. It was part of a series of films set in Italy's African Empire during the Fascist era.[3]
Cast[]
- Fosco Giachetti as Capitano Negri
- Giovanni Grasso as Sergente Amato
- Doris Duranti as Dahabò
- as Elmi
- as Islam
- as Giama
- as Ras Sciferrà
- as Hawariat
References[]
- ^ Original Movie Poster
- ^ Sentinelle di Bronzo (1937). Movie with Italian & Somalian actors
- ^ Palummbo; p.284
Bibliography[]
- Palumbo, Patrizia. A Place in the Sun: Africa in Italian Colonial Culture from Post-unification to the Present. University of California Press, 2003.
External links[]
- Italian-language films
- 1937 films
- Italian films
- Italian war films
- Italian black-and-white films
- 1930s war films
- Films directed by Romolo Marcellini
- Films set in 1935
- Films set in Ethiopia
- Propaganda films