Bengasi (film)
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Music director Antonio Veretti Language Italian | 7.2/10 IMDb Genre Drama, War Duration Country Italy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 5 September 1942 Cast (Il capitano Enrico Berti), (Filippo Colleoni), (Giuliana), Maria Tasnadi Fekete (Carla Berti), Fedele Gentile (Antonio)Similar movies Related Augusto Genina movies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bengasi
Bengasi is a 1942 Italian war film directed by Augusto Genina and starring Fosco Giachetti, Maria von Tasnady and Amedeo Nazzari. The film was shot at Cinecittà in Rome. The film was a propaganda work, designed to support the Fascist regime of Benito Mussolini. It portrays Allied atrocities such as the murder of a peasant by a group of drunken Australian soldiers.
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- Bengasi
- Le nostre truppe a bengasi il generale bastico fra i cittadini prigionieri in un campo di
- Synopsis
- Main cast
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It was presented at the Venice Film Festival and won the Mussolini Cup as the best Italian film while Fosco Giachetti won the best actor award. It proved popular with audiences, and was re-released in 1955 with some new scenes added.
Le nostre truppe a bengasi il generale bastico fra i cittadini prigionieri in un campo di
Synopsis
The film is set in 1941 during the Second World War, when the city of Benghazi in Italian-ruled Libya was occupied by British forces. Italian inhabitants of Benghazi work to resist the British and discover their military plans. One man, Captain Enrico Berti, appears to be collaborating with the British but is in fact working undercover for Italian intelligence. The film ends with the city being recaptured by Italian troops and their Nazi German allies.
Main cast
References
Bengasi (film) WikipediaBengasi (film) IMDbBengasi (film) themoviedb.org