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Initial release
  
4 August 1937 (Italy)

Music director
  
Ildebrando Pizzetti

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Director
  
Carmine Gallone

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Awards
  
Mussolini Cup for Best Italian Film

Screenplay
  
Carmine Gallone, Sebastiano Arturo Luciani, Camillo Mariani Dell'Aguillara, Silvio Maurano

Cast
  
Annibale Ninchi, Fosco Giachetti, Camillo Pilotto, Isa Miranda, Francesca Braggiotti

Similar
  
Historical period drama movies, Epic movies, Historical movies

Scipio africanus movie


Scipione l'africano (1937) — in English Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal — is an Italian historical film that focuses on Publius Cornelius Scipio (Scipio Africanus) from the time of his election as dictator until his defeat of Hannibal at the Battle of Zama in 202 BC. It was directed by Carmine Gallone and stars Annibale Ninchi and Camillo Pilotto. The film was funded by Benito Mussolini and was released in 1937, serving as propaganda for the fascist ambitions to invade North Africa.

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A division of the Italian army was used as extras in the film, shortly before being transferred to duty in the Spanish Civil War.

Cast

  • Annibale Ninchi as "Publius Cornelius Scipio"
  • Camillo Pilotto as "Hannibal"
  • Fosco Giachetti as "Captain Masinissa"
  • Francesca Braggiotti as "Queen Sophonisba"
  • Marcello Giorda as "Syphace"
  • Guglielmo Barnabò as "Furius, Fat Roman"
  • Isa Miranda as "Velia, a Roman woman"
  • Memo Benassi as "Cato the Elder"
  • Franco Coop as "Mezio, Roman soldier"
  • Ciro Galvani as "Quintus Fabius Maximus"
  • Carlo Lombardi as "Lucius"
  • Marcello Spada as "Arunte"
  • Piero Carnabuci as "Il Reduce della Battaglia"
  • Carlo Ninchi as "Lelius"
  • Lamberto Picasso as "Hasdrubal"

    • References

    Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal Wikipedia
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