Carthage's fall
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German title | Carthage's fall |
Original title | Scipione l'Africano |
Country of production | Italy |
original language | Italian |
Publishing year | 1937 |
length | 117 minutes |
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Director | Carmine gallon |
script | Carmine Gallone, Camillo Mariani Dell'Aguillara , Sebastiano A. Luciani , Silvio Maurano |
production | Consorzione 'Scipio l'Africano', Ente Nazionale Industrie Cinematografiche (ENIC) |
music | Ildebrando Pizzetti |
camera |
Ubaldo Arata , Anchise Brizzi |
cut | Oswald Hafenrichter |
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Karthagos Fall (original title Scipione l'Africano ) is a monumental film produced in fascist Italy in 1937 , which deals with the battle of Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus against Hannibal in the Second Punic War . The film was conceived as a propaganda film that should relate Benito Mussolini's colonial efforts in Africa to the victories of the Roman Republic . The film was the first film to be shot in Cinecittà at great expense and massive government support , but was unsuccessful at the box office. This was due to the staging, which was perceived as boring, except for the spectacularly staged Battle of Zama , based primarily on theatrical-rhetorical scenes and the unconvincing main actor Annibale Ninchi , whom Mussolini described as a "flabby face".
Scipione l'Africano remained the only monumental film of the fascist regime with an ancient Roman theme. The film ran in the German Reich in late summer 1938 under the title "Karthagos Fall".
Awards
- Coppa Mussolini , 1937
literature
- Marcus Junkelmann : Hollywood's Dream of Rome . Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 2004, ISBN 978-3-8053-2905-7 , p. 96-97 .
Web links
- Carthage case in the Internet Movie Database (English)