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Genre
  
Drama, War

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Country
  
Italy

Director
  
Music director
  
Annibale Bizzelli

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Writer
  
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Pietro Solari
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Release date
  
November 1936

Cast
  
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Roberto Villa
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Lina d'Acosta

Screenplay
  
Mario Camerini, Mario Soldati, Ercole Patti, Pietro Solari

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Related Mario Camerini movies

The Great Appeal (Italian: Il Grande appello) is a 1936 Italian war film directed by Mario Camerini and starring Camillo Pilotto, Roberto Villa and Lina d'Acosta. It is sometimes known by the alternative title The Last Roll-Call.

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Camerini was considered to have no sympathies with the Fascist regime of Italy, but he made this propaganda film that endorsed the colonial policies of the Italian government. It was one of a number of African-set films made during the Fascist era including The White Squadron (1936), Sentinels of Bronze (1937) and Luciano Serra, Pilot (1938). The film portrays the rediscovery of his patriotism of an Italian, who eventually dies for his country.

Synopsis

Giovanni Bertani is a rootless Italian emigrant who is currently running a hotel in French-ruled Djibouti, while selling arms to the Abyssinian forces fighting the Italians in the Second Italo-Ethiopian War although his son Enrico is serving on the other side. Following a journey to Abyssinia Giovanni regains his sense of Italian identity, and is fatally wounded blowing up the shipment of arms to the Abyssinians.

Cast

  • Camillo Pilotto as Giovanni Bertani
  • Roberto Villa as Enrico
  • Lina d'Acosta as Pepita
  • Guglielmo Sinaz as Miller - il contrabbandiere d'armi
  • Bruno Smith as Il giornalista Patti
  • Pedro Valdes as Salvador
  • Nino Marchetti as Il chirurgo
  • Enrico Poggi as Un operaio genovese
  • References

    The Great Appeal Wikipedia
    The Great Appeal themoviedb.org The Great Appeal IMDb


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